1954: "Operation Wetback" (Its Official Name) Begins
🇺🇸
🇲🇽
"Operation Wetback" begins
Source:
1966: US Arch-Nemesis, the Evil Cuba, Launches First-Ever Polio Vaccination Campaign in Congo-Brazzaville
🇨🇬
🇨🇺
"In 1966 the Cubans organized the
Congo’s first vaccination campaign. ‘‘It was the best gift we could give the country,’’ a Cuban
doctor recalled. Because there were not enough nurses in the Congo, fifty Cuban military instructors
were drafted to administer the vaccine."