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Cuban president Fidel Castro is accusing rich countries like the U.S. of “stealing brains”. No, it’s not Invasion of the Body Snatchers; he’s referring to the mass exodus of intellectuals from Latin America and Africa to the U.S. and Europe — a brain drain, as it were. Fidel charges:

In the last 40 years, more than 1.2 million professionals from Latin America and the Caribbean have emigrated to the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. An average of 70 scientists a day has emigrated from Latin America in the course of 40 years.

Of the 150 million people around the world involved in science and technology activities, 90 percent is concentrated in the seven most industrialized nations.

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