U S pressure on Cuba is rising. A country that has already been under US-led and enforced embargos for almost 70 years, Cuba is now in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, with a new policy that is isolating it further and having a devastating effect on Latin America and the Caribbean . The US has blocked the employment of Cuban doctors, medical professionals who go where others fear to tread and who have propped up healthcare across the region for decades. I spoke to the Guardian’s South America correspondent, Tiago Rogero, about the impact of Trump’s policy and what makes Cuban doctors special. The doctors who go where others will not Thanks to sanctions, Cuba has two main sources of revenue, Tiago told me: “tourism and doctors”. Shortly after its 1959 revolution, Cuba established a programme to send its medical personnel overseas, with the first major mission deployed to assist Chile after its devastating 1960 earthquake.…