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Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Says Cuban Medical Missions “Are Slavery” and Vows to End Them / 14ymedio

Apologies to our readers that this video is not subtitled. Before the shouts of “bravo” Lasso says, that the free healthcare system in Ecuador provided by the government should be in the hands of Ecuadorian doctors. His other statements are reported in the article. 14ymedio (with information from Diana Ramos), Quito, 17 March 2017 – … Continue reading “Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Says Cuban Medical Missions “Are Slavery” and Vows to End Them / 14ymedio”

US Imposes Visa Restrictions on Officials From Cuba, Africa and Grenada for Coercive Medical Missions

The measure seeks to punish those who benefit from the “rental” of health professionals, a multi-million dollar business for the Havana regime. 14ymedio, Havana, 13 August 2025 — The US government announced on Wednesday new visa restrictions against officials as well as their families, from Cuba and several African countries and Grenada for their involvement … Continue reading “US Imposes Visa Restrictions on Officials From Cuba, Africa and Grenada for Coercive Medical Missions”

Without Knowing It, ‘The United States Has Been Paying for the Cuban Medical Brigades in Jamaica’

Cuba Archive asks Washington to suspend its $48 million aid until Kingston ends its agreements with Havana. 14ymedio, Madrid, 30 July 2025 — Replicating the work carried out with the international missions of Cuban doctors in the Bahamas, Cuba Archive has prepared a new report on the contracts signed for the same purpose between the … Continue reading “Without Knowing It, ‘The United States Has Been Paying for the Cuban Medical Brigades in Jamaica’”

US Revokes Visas for Central American Officials Cooperating With Cuban Medical Missions

The identities of those affected, accused of being involved in a form of forced labor, are unknown at this time. EFE / 14ymedio, Washington, 4 June 2025 — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday the withdrawal of visas from several Central American government officials who collaborate with Cuban medical missions, although he … Continue reading “US Revokes Visas for Central American Officials Cooperating With Cuban Medical Missions”

Italy Hires 158 Cuban Health Workers To Work in Medical Centers in Sardinia

14ymedio, Madrid, 24 January 2024 — After Calabria, another Italian region will receive a group of Cuban doctors soon. According to the Sardinian press, 128 doctors and 30 nurses will arrive in Sardinia very soon – without specifying a date – since the permits are about to be delivered. At the moment, the financial content … Continue reading “Italy Hires 158 Cuban Health Workers To Work in Medical Centers in Sardinia”

Cuba Monopolizes Mexican Medical Students on Scholarships to Study Abroad and Charges More Per Student Than the United Kingdom, France and the United States

14ymedio, Mexico, January 18, 2024 — Mexico pays Cuba 27,914 dollars in foreign currency (484,041 Mexican pesos) annually for each of the 428 students studying medical specialties on the Island. The figures reveal, according to a report published this Thursday in El Universal, that the education of these scholarship recipients on the Island is more … Continue reading “Cuba Monopolizes Mexican Medical Students on Scholarships to Study Abroad and Charges More Per Student Than the United Kingdom, France and the United States”

Cuban Medical Staff Abroad Falls From 30,000 to 23,000 in a Year

14ymedio, Madrid, 4 January 2022 — “Internationalism is a principle that has characterized Public Health in Cuba since the beginning of the first Cuban medical collaboration, in 1963, in Algeria,” the Cuban Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday on its Twitter account. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs left a significant fact about it yesterday, much celebrated this … Continue reading “Cuban Medical Staff Abroad Falls From 30,000 to 23,000 in a Year”

Report Reveals ‘The Military Truth Behind the Cuban Medical Missions in Mexico

14ymedio, Madrid, August 26, 2022 — The characteristics of the last Cuban medical brigade imported by Mexico, which began to arrive in the last week of July, offer no doubt about the spurious interests behind the facade of humanitarian collaboration with which they have been sold to public opinion. “They are all military” and “none … Continue reading “Report Reveals ‘The Military Truth Behind the Cuban Medical Missions in Mexico”

Havana’s Obsession With the Nobel Peace Prize in Response to Allegations of Slavery

14ymedio, Rosa Pascual, Madrid, 2 February 2021 — The perseverance with which the Cuban government seeks the Nobel Peace Prize for the Henry Reeve Brigade in the context of the pandemic is now beginning a new phase. After the nomination period closed on Monday, the official press reported the addition of singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez to … Continue reading “Havana’s Obsession With the Nobel Peace Prize in Response to Allegations of Slavery”

Medical Missions Are "The Great Capitalist Slave Business" of the Cuban Government

14ymedio, Rosa Pascual / Yaiza Santos, Madrid, September 22, 2020 — Cuban Prisoners Defenders (CPD) made public this Tuesday its complaint in front of the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC), which it presented on August 24 in the names of 622 doctors from the Island who have been on missions abroad. In … Continue reading “Medical Missions Are "The Great Capitalist Slave Business" of the Cuban Government”

Cuban Prisoners Defenders Accuses Norway and Luxembourg of Participating in the Slavery of Cuban Doctors

14ymedio, Havana, 4 June 2020 — The Cuban Prisoners Defenders (CPD) organization accuses Norway and Luxembourg of contributing to the financing of the slavery system of Cuban doctors who work on international missions and asks them to review their triangular collaboration agreements if they want to continue being an example in human rights to the whole … Continue reading “Cuban Prisoners Defenders Accuses Norway and Luxembourg of Participating in the Slavery of Cuban Doctors”

The UN Expresses Concern for Working Conditions of Cuban Doctors on Missions

14ymedio, Havana, January 6, 2010 — The United Nations expressed concern for the working conditions of Cuban doctors sent on medical missions, according to a document made public and sent to the Island last November. The Cuban Government did not respond. Urmila Bhoola, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, and Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special … Continue reading “The UN Expresses Concern for Working Conditions of Cuban Doctors on Missions”

Testimony of 110 Doctors Cuban Doctors on Foreign “Missions” Leads to Complaint Over Slavery

14ymedio, Havana, 23 May 2019 — The Cuban-Spaniard Javier Larrondo, president of the organization Defenders of Cuban Prisoners, in partnership with Solidarity Without Borders and the Patriotic Union of Cuba, explained on Thursday at a press conference in Miami that a complaint against the Cuban government as been presented to multiple international organizations for “slavery, … Continue reading “Testimony of 110 Doctors Cuban Doctors on Foreign “Missions” Leads to Complaint Over Slavery”

Prestigious Ecuadorian Surgeon Opposes Cuban Medical Mission in His Country

14ymedio, Mario J. Pentón, Miami, 29 September 2018 —  Bernardo Sandoval Córdova, a surgeon who is dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the International University of Ecuador, has raised the controversy over the permanence of the Cuban medical mission in that South American country. In an opinion column published in the official government newspaper El Telégrafo, Sandoval Córdova … Continue reading “Prestigious Ecuadorian Surgeon Opposes Cuban Medical Mission in His Country”

Criminal Gang Steals $150,000 from Cuban Medical Mission in Venezuela

14ymedio, Mario J. Pentón, Miami | 2 July 2018 — Eight armed and hooded men attacked a group of Cuban doctors stationed in Venezuela in the early hours of Sunday morning and stole more than $152,000 (dollars) and 30,000 pesos, according to statements to 14ymedio from several doctors from the island who work in the medical mission in that country. The police reports … Continue reading “Criminal Gang Steals $150,000 from Cuban Medical Mission in Venezuela”