Cuba is giving hundreds of thousands of medical workers raises, the state-run newspaper announced Friday. The Communist Party’s daily newspaper, Granma, also reported that Cuba expected to take in $8.2 billion this year for the tens of thousands of medical workers it sends to care for the poor in countries like Venezuela and Brazil. Those workers will also receive raises. Granma reported that doctors with two specialties would see their salary rise to $67 a month from $26, while an entry-level nurse would make $25, up from $13. The raises will affect more than 440,000 medical sector employees, Granma said, and were made possible by the elimination of 109,000 jobs considered to be redundant by the government in the past four years. Salaries at government jobs in Cuba average about $20 a month, augmented by a variety of free services and subsidies.