The U.S. revoked the visas Wednesday of two former senior health officials in Brazil for their involvement in a program that sent Cuban doctors to remote areas in the South American nation. Mozart Julio Tabosa Sales and Alberto Kleiman were among a list of people whose visas were either revoked or restricted along with their family members for allegedly working to facilitate Cuba's Mais Médicos program,

The U.S. State Department took steps to revoke and restrict visas for several Brazilian government officials, former officials of the Pan American Health Organization and their family members, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement on Wednesday,