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Exporting Doctors

A Bolivian judge on Friday ordered a warrant for the arrest of former President Evo Morales after he didn’t appear to testify in court in a case alleging that he sexually abused a minor

By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press

January 17, 2025, 12:08 PM

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- A Bolivian judge on Friday issued a warrant for the arrest of former President Evo Morales after he failed to appear in court over a case alleging that he sexually abused a minor.

Morales, 65, is alleged to have had a child with a teenage girl in 2016 — a sexual relationship that would have constituted statutory rape under Bolivian law.
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Evo Morales is in big trouble. Cuban doctors were involved protecting the house where he abuse minors. He did not appear for testified in court and faces a warrant for his arrest.
 
Mexico Pays More Than 5,000 Dollars Monthly for Each of the 3,100 Doctors Hired From Cuba – Translating Cuba

14ymedio, Mexico City, 6 October 2024 — The Government of Mexico pays $5,188 per month for each of the 3,101 doctors it hired from Cuba to offer services in rural areas. The expenditure amounts to a total of 16,087,988 dollars each month. A large part of the money is used to cover transport services, food and lodging for doctors, the newspaper Reforma reported this Sunday.

Of that monthly payment, most of it – 4,015 dollars – is intended for food, lodging and transportation for the health workers, which represents an annual delivery of 149,406,180 dollars to cover only the per diem allowances of the Cubans. The media does not mention whether similar amounts will be paid for the 5,000 doctors that Mexico plans to hire.

The figures offered by Reforma, however, only add data to a well-known and criticized reality in the Mexican medical union: the Government prefers to pay foreigners rather than its national doctors.
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It is ironic that the Government of Mexico hire Cubans doctors, when 30% of Mexican new graduates doctors were unable to find a remunerated employment in healthcare.
 
Mexico Pays More Than 5,000 Dollars Monthly for Each of the 3,100 Doctors Hired From Cuba – Translating Cuba

14ymedio, Mexico City, 6 October 2024 — The Government of Mexico pays $5,188 per month for each of the 3,101 doctors it hired from Cuba to offer services in rural areas. The expenditure amounts to a total of 16,087,988 dollars each month. A large part of the money is used to cover transport services, food and lodging for doctors, the newspaper Reforma reported this Sunday.

Of that monthly payment, most of it – 4,015 dollars – is intended for food, lodging and transportation for the health workers, which represents an annual delivery of 149,406,180 dollars to cover only the per diem allowances of the Cubans. The media does not mention whether similar amounts will be paid for the 5,000 doctors that Mexico plans to hire.
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It is ironic that the Government of Mexico hire Cubans doctors, when 30% of Mexican new graduates doctors were unable to find a remunerated employment in healthcare. [Nigenda G., Ruiz J.A., Bejarano R. Educational and labor wastage of doctors in Mexico: towards the construction of a common methodology. Hum Resour Health. 2005;3(1):3. doi: 10.1186/1478-4491-3-3. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
 
Between 2022 and 2023, the Mexican government payed the Castroist communist regime nearly $24 million for the hire of 610 Cuban doctors spending nearly $24 million. In September 24, former President López Obrador announced the hiring of 3100 additional physicians from Cuba. With a payment of $5,188 per month per doctor, the total per year is near to $193 million.

[El Universal. https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/imss-erogo-472-mdp-por-la-contratacion-de-medicos-cubanos/
 
The Castroist communist regime collet close to $11 billion annually, through the work of over 40,000 doctors in 67 countries, with 90% of the revenue keep by the regime. The exportation of Cubans doctor has caused increasing international criticism, labeling the practice as modern slavery.
[Gómez-Dantés O. Cuba’s health system: hardly an example to follow. Health Pol Plann. 2018;33(6):760–761. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czy035. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
[“Diplomacia branca” com médicos rende 42 bilhões de reais a Cuba por ano [“White diplomacy” with doctors generates 42 billion reais for Cuba per year] | Internacional | EL PAÍS
 
by Arturo McFields, Opinion Contributor - 12/08/24

Mexico has not played fair. It had already violated the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade by allowing China to use it as a back door for its exports. The new Mexican government is also weakening the legal framework of the country and undermining its own institutions.

And now, in the field of labor, Mexico is violating the agreement once again by receiving 199 Cuban doctors this month in a modern slavery scheme.

The USMCA is clear about its commitment to the protection of labor rights. Its preamble establishes the decision to “promote the protection and enforcement of labor rights, the improvement of working conditions, the strengthening of cooperation and the Parties’ capacity on labor issues.”
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According to the article, Mexico is violating the agreement of the USMCA about its commitment to the protection of labor rights. The Cuban medical doctors hire by Mexico in a modern slavery scheme, are in violation of USMCA call for “the elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labor.” The last two years, the Mexican government had paid $24 million to the Castroist regime Cuban dictatorship for its medical brigades, which hurt Mexican doctors seeking jobs in healthcare with decent salaries.
 
Cuba is facing a health crisis in 2023 due to the loss of more than 13,300 doctors, exacerbated by the export of medical professionals and a shortage of medical resources.

Current Affairs

By CiberCuba Editorial Team

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

In a year marked by a growing crisis in the Cuban healthcare system, the island lost a total of 13,303 doctors in 2023, representing a severe blow to the country's health infrastructure.

According to the Statistical Yearbook on Public Health and Social Assistance published by the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), the number of doctors in Cuba fell from 94,066 in 2022 to 80,763 in 2023, highlighting a concerning exodus of healthcare professionals.

This exodus is not limited to doctors. The general healthcare staff in Cuba, which includes dentists, nurses, technicians, and other professionals in the field, has also experienced a significant decline, the state entity notes.

The total number of workers in the health sector reached 248,512 in 2023, detailing a decrease of 32,586 compared to the previous year, when the health staff numbered 281,098.
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Cuba population in 2023 is estimated in 11.19 million. Total number of doctors in 2023 amount to 80,763, of which 13,303 have left and 37,000 are working abroad. Around 10% of the 30,460 doctors that remain in Cuba, choose to work in more lucrative jobs like in the tourism sector. The actual number of doctors practicing in Cuba amount to 27,900, a ratio of 400 people per doctor, not 138 people per doctors according to WHO statistics.
 
Cuban Doctors Monopolize Internships for Mexican Students – Translating Cuba

The University of San Luis Potosí has been forced to negotiate with hospitals to obtain new positions for Mexican graduates
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Ismael Francisco Herrera Benavente said that Cuban doctors are displacing Mexican doctors in San Luis Potosí / Video capture/@Potosinoticia01
14ymedio, Mexico City, 3 February 2025 — The president of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of San Luis Potosí in Mexico said that Cuban doctors hired by Mexico lack the necessary “certifications” to practice. According to Ismael Francisco Herrera Benavente, the training of Cuban health workers is not only doubtful, but their arrival has also begun to “displace” university graduates, especially in the internships they must do as part of their social service.

“We have to pass several accreditations (studies), validations, evaluations and exams for medical residency,” Herrera Benavente told local media, and he doubts that the Cubans are as well trained as their own students. The doctor’s complaint adds to the discontent shown last September by the College of the Medical Profession. “Cubans do not have a professional ID and cannot issue prescriptions,” stressed the president of the Antonio Chalita Manzur institution.
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According to the article “Cuban doctors hired by Mexico lack the necessary “certifications” to practice.” And their arrival has also begun to “displace” university graduates. The government spent 23.23 million of euros in the hiring of 610 doctors. In other words, the hiring of Cuban doctors is a political stunt to help the Castroist regime, Mexico doesn’t need them.
 
The US Secretary of State described Cuban medical missions as an “atrocious practice.”
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Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio / EF

EFE (via 14ymedio), San Juan, 26 March 2025 — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on Wednesday, called Cuban medical missions an “atrocious practice,” but said he will engage in dialogue with the Caribbean countries that benefit from them because “there are places with better labor standards.”

“In many other parts of the world, doctors aren’t paid. The Cuban government is paid. Their passports are taken away. They basically operate as forced labor in many places,” he denounced at a press conference in Jamaica with Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

“Now, each country operates its program differently. And obviously, because of our relationship with Jamaica, we’re going to be engaging with them on this, digging deeper into the issue, and understanding it better. Perhaps none of this applies to the way it’s handled here,” he added.

“In many other parts of the world, doctors [on medical missions] aren’t paid. The Cuban government is.”
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Since a long time ago the U.S. shall had deal with this trade of Cubans slave doctors by the Castroist communist regime. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “In many other parts of the world, doctors aren’t paid. The Cuban government is paid. Their passports are taken away. They basically operate as forced labor in many places.” He is engaging with other Caribbean’s countries to get rid of this “atrocious practice.”. Another nail in the coffin of the regime.
 
Trafficking of doctors in the Caribbean: The story of five Cuban Women

Five Cuban healthcare workers reveal a pattern of expropriation and extreme control within the regime's medical brigades in the Caribbean.

Annarella Grimal abril 16, 2025

In March, during his first official visit to Jamaica, U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio reaffirmed Washington’s position on the Cuban medical brigades: “They basically operate as forced labor,” Rubio said at a press conference, and mentioned that “the doctors are not paid” for their services directly, but “the Cuban government decides how much of anything to give them”, and “take away their passports.” The strong accusations, although publicly rejected by the authorities of Jamaica, Cuba, and other countries in the region, had an immediate effect on the Jamaican medical mission: the Cuban side—which had indeed confiscated the passports—gave the order to return them to the doctors.

In this report, five women working in the healthcare system reveal a pattern of expropriation and extreme control within the Cuban professional brigades in the Caribbean, a claim that the host governments insist on denying. Their experiences, backed by official documentation, paint a clear picture of the violations of international labour standards in medical missions.
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The Castroist communist regime has impose a ban on traveling to internationalization missions in the company of one’s family to make more difficult for the doctors to defect, since they are living the family behind. The Cuban Medical Services that manages the recruitment of Cuban personnel with the local government, keep most of their salaries. Yaniset ( not her real name), which join the Cuban Medical Brigade in Jamaica, was aware of that, and she did it in order to provide for her family. She says, “The mission is a scam, and a form of slavery whichever way you look at it.”
 
Iliana ( not her real name), a member of Cuban Medical Brigade in Dominica, was summoned to a disciplinary council because “she refuses to contribute her remittance to the country.” The wage expropriation method used by the Cuban Medical Brigade is carried out in cash, withdrawing the required amount under the guise of a “family remittance” by the brigade leader. The Brigade not only takes a substantial portion of their income but also compels them to engage in political and propaganda activities.
 
Carmen (not her real name), ten years ago was in Santa Lucia contracted by Cuba’s Central Medical Cooperation Unit, where she was pushed to the limit. By signing the contract, Carmen agreed to surrender her passport to her superiors and the brigade chief to act on her behalf. Eventually she secured an independent contract, returned to the same country. She was blacklisted and forbidden from returning to Cuba She realized her income, free from the previous contract, more than doubled what she had previously earned. She was required to transfer 50% of her income to an account belonging to the Cuban Medical Brigade, effectively reducing her take-home pay to just 25%. For Santa Lucia, it is a great business, since it pays the Cuban Medical Brigade doctors only half of what they pay to national doctors.
 
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