Exporting Doctors

Many morons around the world have proposed that Castro, Inc.’s slave doctor racket deserves a Nobel Prize.

Oh well, Obama got a prize for doing nothing. Why not reward those who have actually done something novel, such as reintroducing slavery to the world in a cleverly disguised way? One does have to admit, the disguise seems to be working beautifully.



Loosely translated from CiberCuba

“The world should know and realize that Cuba enslaves medical personnel that it sends out on alleged humanitarian missions,” concluded the testimony, forced to “lock themselves in their homes at six in the afternoon,” with the express prohibition of spending the night in someone else’s home. and to communicate any relationship that they establish with Venezuelans, to the State Security officer of their welfare demarcation.
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The 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report published by The U.S. Department of State on July 1st kept Cuba in Tier 3, the worst category, along with 16 other states not meeting the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and not making significant efforts to do so. Pursuant to the U.S. law Trafficking in Persons Victim Act (TPVA), this year’s report has raised the tone on the labor exploitation associated with Cuba’s international medical missions and pointed to the singular role of the Cuban government in the business of human trafficking and the complicity of dozens of partner states.

Although the report does not specifically assert this, by Cuba’s own reported data, its government is among the three largest labor traffickers in the world along with the dictatorial governments of North Korea and China. Its dictatorial leadership runs, commercializes, enforces, and manages this unique scheme of modern slavery in complicity with many other governments and international organizations, and sends tens of thousands of temporary workers overseas to rake in Cuba’s largest source of revenues, around US$8 billion in 2019 as per the latest official data.
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Cuba exports medical missions while Cubans denounce collapse of healthcare at home.

Written byConnectas
Translated byAnthony Sutterman
Translation posted 22 November 2021

This article is an excerpt from an investigation by Diario de Cuba and CONNECTAS, republished in Global Voices.

Cuba's million-dollar health business is based on two pillars: a high-quality service on the island for foreigners, and the massive exportation of health professionals through medical missions. This lucrative model has allowed the government to spread propaganda and sell an altruistic façade, while Cubans have to endure hospital collapse and the doctors who are taking part in these missions are subjected to all kinds of violations of their rights.

The pandemic caused by the coronavirus gave way to an ideal situation to relaunch the promotion of Cuban medical services, which had suffered a decline between 2018 and 2019 after the end of Cuba-allied governments in Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador. In addition to reviving overseas contracting, the pandemic served as a framework for Havana to revive the propaganda surrounding the medical missions, which included a campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize for the group of professionals sent to work to contain Covid-19.
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Thanks to the MSM lauding the Castroist regime socialist healthcare system as one of the best through many years, the regime has made millions of dollars from its medical missions abroad. This is a modern-day version of human trafficking, a multi-billion-dollar form of international organize crime, a modern-day slavery.

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How did something so at odds with reality persist for so long? And why is it finally crumbling?

DANIEL RAISBECK AND JOHN OSTERHOUDT | 4.18.2022 10:00 AM

"If there's one thing they do right in Cuba, it's health care," said Michael Moore in a 2007 interview. "Cuba has the best health care system in the entire area," according to Angela Davis, "and in many respects much better than the U.S."

"One thing that is well established in the global health community is the strength of the Cuban national health system," said Clare Wenham, a professor at the London School of Economics.

Claims like these have appeared in hundreds of documentaries, newspaper articles, and magazine features over the years celebrating the supposed marvel of Cuba's health care system. It's a testament to the effectiveness of the Castro regime's propaganda apparatus that this myth, so deeply at odds with reality, has persisted for so long.

"The Cuban health care system is destroyed," Rotceh Rios Molina, a Cuban doctor who escaped the country's medical mission while stationed in Mexico, tells Reason in Spanish. "The doctor's offices are in very bad shape."

"People are dying in the hallways," says José Angel Sánchez, another Cuban doctor who defected from the medical mission in Venezuela, interviewed by Reason in Spanish.

According to Rios, Sánchez, and others with firsthand experience practicing medicine in Cuba, the island nation's health care system is a catastrophe. Clinics lack the most routine supplies, from antibiotics to oxygen and even running water, and their hallways are often occupied by ailing patients because there aren't enough doctors to treat their most basic needs. Cuban hospitals are unsanitary and decrepit. It's exactly what you'd expect in a country impoverished by communism.
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Sandokan said:

The Castroist propaganda machine information about the Cuban healthcare system to be one of the best in the world, have been regurgitated by the main stream media and progressives. The regime claims of the superiority myth of the island healthcare system, have been exposed as lies by the crumbling of the system.

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One of the Cuban doctors sent to Mexico. EFE

After Cuban-American legislators this week asked the federal government to investigate alleged violations by Mexico of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) due to the hiring of medical personnel from Cuba in 2020, questions are being raised about the characteristics of this "medical mission" from Havana to the neighboring country.

What were the terms of the agreement between Havana and Mexico City? Were there any violations of laws governing the hiring of professionals in that country? Is it possible that the human rights provisions of the NAFTA were violated, as the legislators claim?

DIARIO DE CUBA, which closely followed this agreement to export Cuban labor, runs down what happened in those days.
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DDC - Madrid 06 Mayo 2022

Although government propaganda claims that Cuba is a medical powerhouse, and offers foreign patients the possibility of being treated on the island at specialized centers that have all the resources, the number of Cubans requesting humanitarian visas from other countries for medical reasons is increasing.

At the beginning of April, the Facebook group "Sembrando Esperanzas" (Sowing Hope) posted about the case of Alexia Milagros, who suffers from a disease called Pompe, which causes rapidly progressive generalized muscle weakness and developmental delay.

The girl is the only patient in Cuba with this diagnosis. Her family was "fighting for a humanitarian visa" so that she could be treated in the United States. A U.S. pharmaceutical company donated the medication Alexia needed, but the treatment cost $10,000, which they did not have.
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DDC - Madrid 06 Mayo 2022

Although government propaganda claims that Cuba is a medical powerhouse, and offers foreign patients the possibility of being treated on the island at specialized centers that have all the resources, the number of Cubans requesting humanitarian visas from other countries for medical reasons is increasing.

At the beginning of April, the Facebook group "Sembrando Esperanzas" (Sowing Hope) posted about the case of Alexia Milagros, who suffers from a disease called Pompe, which causes rapidly progressive generalized muscle weakness and developmental delay.

The girl is the only patient in Cuba with this diagnosis. Her family was "fighting for a humanitarian visa" so that she could be treated in the United States. A U.S. pharmaceutical company donated the medication Alexia needed, but the treatment cost $10,000, which they did not have.
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August 22, 2022

NEW YORK (August 22, 2022) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has published a new report addressing Cuba’s state-sponsored human trafficking scheme, run through a decades-long program of international medical missions. Since the 1960s, the Cuban regime has sent healthcare personnel to more than 150 countries in what has often been referred to as “medical diplomacy” or “humanitarian aid.”

The widely–lauded program, however, runs on the exploitation of healthcare professionals, and serves as a major tool of international propaganda and an important source of revenue for Cuba’s repressive Communist regime. HRF’s analysis shows that the Cuban government has imposed coercive and retaliatory practices on healthcare professionals to avoid desertion, enforced in ways that violate international law protecting victims of human trafficking.

Cuba’s human trafficking scheme has also violated the rights of hundreds of thousands of Cuban doctors for more than 60 years: the right to privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and freedom of movement.
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HRF’s new report lays out the current international standards that require states to protect the rights of human trafficking victims and to incorporate a human rights approach when developing trafficking solutions. It also details the history of Cuba’s medical missions, the main mechanisms used to exploit the labor of healthcare workers, and how these missions finance the Cuban regime. Lastly, the report outlines potential solutions and policy changes. Click link above for full article

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August 22, 2022

NEW YORK (August 22, 2022) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has published a new report addressing Cuba’s state-sponsored human trafficking scheme, run through a decades-long program of international medical missions. Since the 1960s, the Cuban regime has sent healthcare personnel to more than 150 countries in what has often been referred to as “medical diplomacy” or “humanitarian aid.”

The widely–lauded program, however, runs on the exploitation of healthcare professionals, and serves as a major tool of international propaganda and an important source of revenue for Cuba’s repressive Communist regime. HRF’s analysis shows that the Cuban government has imposed coercive and retaliatory practices on healthcare professionals to avoid desertion, enforced in ways that violate international law protecting victims of human trafficking.

Cuba’s human trafficking scheme has also violated the rights of hundreds of thousands of Cuban doctors for more than 60 years: the right to privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and freedom of movement.

HRF’s new report lays out the current international standards that require states to protect the rights of human trafficking victims and to incorporate a human rights approach when developing trafficking solutions. It also details the history of Cuba’s medical missions, the main mechanisms used to exploit the labor of healthcare workers, and how these missions finance the Cuban regime. Lastly, the report outlines potential solutions and policy changes.
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This combination of international support and financial exploitation has prevented the Cuban government from facing widespread condemnation from the international community and adopting structural reforms to end human trafficking. As a result, stopping human trafficking in Cuba’s medical missions will require a complex response that addresses all contributing factors that permit the exploitation of medical workers.

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Report: Cuban Doctors Brought to Mexico Work in Slavery Conditions - El American

by El American Newsroom / 08.25.22

A REPORT by the NGO Prisoners Defenders assured on Thursday that the members of the Cuban medical missions, which include 650 health professionals sent to Mexico, work in conditions of “slavery” and that 80% of their salaries are stolen by the authorities of the regime.

Dita Charanzová, vice-president of the European Parliament for Latin America, and Javier Nart, first vice-president of the European Parliament Delegation for Central America (DCAM), participated in the presentation of the report through a delayed video broadcast.

“The situation of Cuban doctors is shocking, it is time for the people to know the truth, to know the other side of the Cuban international missions. Disregarding the human rights situation cannot be the price to pay for health aid or other services,” said Charanzová.

She also assured that “there is evidence” that the reality of the Cuban regime’s intentions in sending health personnel to other countries goes beyond showing solidarity.

She also said that “it is proven” that 80% of the money charged by Cuba for these missions “goes to the regime and not to the pockets of Cuban doctors”.
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By FRANCES MARTEL | 13 Dec 2022

The human rights organization Cuban Prisoners Defenders published a report Tuesday accusing the Mideast emirate of Qatar of funding and benefiting from Cuba’s slave doctor industry — and forcing enslaved health workers to promote Doha’s “political agendas.”

The full report also accused the local government of Calabria, Italy, and the Mexican government under far-left President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of propping up Cuba’s multi-billion-dollar health worker slave trade. The impoverished communist island has for decades styled itself a global medical leader despite the destitute state of its healthcare system in large part through its foreign medical missions, which enslave doctors and other health workers in friendly countries. In 2019, the Wall Street Journal estimated that Cuba makes $11 billion a year on the health worker slave trade.
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By FRANCES MARTEL | 13 Dec 2022

The human rights organization Cuban Prisoners Defenders published a report Tuesday accusing the Mideast emirate of Qatar of funding and benefiting from Cuba’s slave doctor industry — and forcing enslaved health workers to promote Doha’s “political agendas.”

The full report also accused the local government of Calabria, Italy, and the Mexican government under far-left President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of propping up Cuba’s multi-billion-dollar health worker slave trade. The impoverished communist island has for decades styled itself a global medical leader despite the destitute state of its healthcare system in large part through its foreign medical missions, which enslave doctors and other health workers in friendly countries. In 2019, the Wall Street Journal estimated that Cuba makes $11 billion a year on the health worker slave trade.

Cuban health workers abroad face imprisonment or other legal consequences if they violate restrictive rules prohibiting them from driving without authorization, befriending locals, or leaving their residences during their curfews. Those who attempt to defect face an eight-year ban from entering Cuba, often meaning that defection leaves them unable to be present for their children’s childhoods.
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Cuban health care is a catastrophe - YouTube

Reason TV

April 18, 2022

Part 1

"If there's one thing they do right in Cuba, it's health care," said Michael Moore in a 2007 interview. "Cuba has the best health care system in the entire area," according to Angela Davis, "and in many respects much better than the U.S."

"One thing that's well established in the global health community is the strength of the Cuban national health system," said Clare Wenham, a professor at the London School of Economics.

Claims like these have appeared in hundreds of documentaries, newspaper articles, and magazine features over the years celebrating the supposed marvel of Cuba's health care system. It's a testament to the effectiveness of the Castro regime's propaganda apparatus that this myth, so deeply at odds with reality, has persisted for so long.

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medi said:

You deserve a note of recognition, Sandokan, for sticking to this project (this thread) for close to 9 years. That sort of dedication is admirable. Unfortunately, there are so many other troubles around the world that your project receives little attention here in this community.

During my high school years I lived in Miami and off to the far right of our house as we faced the lake there was a Cuban family living where we used to spend a lot of time trying to catch this one big bass that seemed to elude all attempts to get it to take the bait. And that is meant to indicate that at that time I wasn't paying much attention to issues related to Cuba, and there were many. Once in a bit we'd go into the area where I suppose there were a fair number of businesses owned by Cuban folks, but didn't get into anything about politics. A bit earlier in my life when my father was stationed at Homestead and that Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved I think I probably pushed matters of a political nature related to Cuba off my active-interest shelf and tucked them safely away. A lot of other stuff came up, like staying alive for a few years while on active duty.

I seem to remember a big influx of the Cuban population during the Carter administration, but that was definitely overshadowed (for me) by President Carter's slow decision-making on another matter that really made me more than a bit upset and that caused a nation of people to be in a bad way for many years. That decision-making style affected me in many ways. Another situation where lead was flying, unfortunately. But a whole bunch of U.S. citizen know/knew little about that, nor even care/cared.

Meaning, I have always had good excuses, to my mind, to ignore the issues you are posting about in this thread, BUT I admire your persistence. I'll see if I can find time to do a better read of the thread, as it isn't really so long - - - and keep an eye on your future posts. Cuba is an interesting place. But that can be stated about so many places on this planet.

But you deserve a good post of recognition, even if this post is way too long.

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