From our Bureau of Twenty-First Century Neoslavery with some assistance from our Bureau of Socialist Social Justice
Another shining example of socialist social justice: You not only enslave doctors, but send them to another country while your own health system is a total disaster. Forget your own people, forget human rights, you — the slaver — must keep earning billions of dollars from these slaves of yours. Beautiful. Such a wondrously revealing instance of socialist ethics in action. And the best part of it for you –the slave owner — is that much of the world thinks of you as a humanitarian medical powerhouse and you are repeatedly nominated for a Nobel Prize.
Loosely translated from Marti Noticias
Around 200 Cuban medical specialists arrived in Mexico on Monday to work in rural areas as part of an agreement that has deployed over 3,000 doctors from the island to the Aztec nation.
“We welcomed 199 Cuban doctors from 29 specialties at the AIFA (Felipe Ángeles International Airport), who will provide their support, alongside Mexican colleagues, in remote communities across 24 states in the country. The solidarity and experience of our physicians are committed to saving lives,” the Cuban Embassy in Mexico stated in a Facebook post.
Mexico announced mid-year that it would hire around 4,000 more Cuban doctors from Havana as part of a controversial agreement signed in May 2022 between then-Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel. The deal has been criticized by opposition groups and local professionals.
The agreement is lucrative for the Havana regime. Between July 2022 and December 2023, the Mexican government paid Cuba over 23 million euros for the hiring of 610 doctors, according to a report by El Universal in September.
The money was paid to the company Comercializadora de Servicios Cubanos, S.A., as indicated by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) to the newspaper, which noted that it was unclear how much of this amount directly reached the doctors’ salaries, according to the Mexican outlet’s investigation.
In total, the export of medical services has generated over $11 billion for Cuba in the past decade, according to official figures.
Meanwhile, Cubans on the island complain about the medical care crisis, including long wait times to see specialists or schedule surgeries, among other difficulties stemming from the deteriorated public healthcare system.
Sources from Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health said last October that, during 2024, more than 17,000 dengue patients were hospitalized, over 3,000 of whom remained under care. Cuban doctors warned that the situation was more severe than reported.
“There are hundreds of thousands of cases, and the healthcare infrastructure is extremely inadequate (…), and the lack of medicine is more critical,” one of the interviewed doctors told Martí Noticias at the time.
The Caribbean nation, which once prided itself on being a global medical powerhouse, lacks the necessary healthcare professionals in its hospitals and health centers. According to Cuba’s National Office of Statistics and Information, the country had 12,000 fewer doctors in 2022 than the previous year.
The so-called medical missions have been criticized by governments and international organizations as a form of “modern slavery.” Among the criticisms is the meager payment to doctors, who receive only a tiny fraction of what the recipient countries pay to the Cuban government.
Havana has responded by stating that these international campaigns aim to discredit the “altruistic, solidary, and internationalist” work of its doctors abroad.
As long as there’s enough of a market for something, someone will offer it for sale. Yes, the slave traders are lower than dirt, but the slave trade depends entirely on there being buyers, who are also dirtbags, or worse.