The president of the Prisoners Defenders association, Javier Larrondo, denounced this Thursday during a press conference that “there are State Security agents” among the 641 doctors hired by Mexico in Cuba. The conference, entitled The military truth behind the Cuban medical missions in Mexicowas attended by several members of Mexican civil society and took place at the Casablanca hotel, in the capital of that country.
Larrondo added that the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “is allowing slavery on Mexican soil” and “financing” the Cuban regime. He also specified that, when the toilets entered the facilities of the Mexican Air Force, no more control was required than that carried out by the military, unlike what happens with ordinary passengers.
In addition, “no one has seen the titles of the Cuban doctors,” whose presence has already been evaluated by some analysts as a “security risk” for that state, Larrondo noted.
Another member of the conference, Beatriz Pagés, former deputy and director of the magazine Alwayspointed out that the mission of the groups of doctors is “more political, more military and of indoctrination than health”.
He recalled that this procedure has been carried out by Cuba in other countries, and that it responds to “the advice of those who helped Hugo Chávez and now Nicolás Maduro to preserve themselves in power in Venezuela.”
Larrondo added that the Administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “is allowing slavery on Mexican soil” and “financing” the Cuban regime.
By introducing the military with the support of Havana, López Obrador intends to “consolidate his autocratic project and have the presidency guaranteed in 2024,” Pagés pointed out. The Mexican government is “increasingly closer to the most radical dictatorships in Latin America, where human rights are violated, journalists, priests, and free-thinking women and men are imprisoned, and it moves away from democracy,” the journalist warned.
Diplomat and politician Ricardo Pascoe, who served as Mexico’s ambassador to Cuba from 2000 to 2002, explained that the Mexican president’s visit to the island last May also had a military connotation. Traveling in the official delegation were General Luis Cresencio Sandoval González, Secretary of National Defense, and José Rafael Ojeda, Secretary of the Navy, with the task of “organizing political cadres, as in Venezuela.”
According to Pascoe, the López Obrador government is financing a regime that replaces “the lack of economic development with slave labor.” The result is a strengthening of the “capacity for internal repression” of a regime that is prolonging as long as possible the “last days before its fall.”
Cuba learned from North Korea this system of labor exploitation, Pascoe explained. The Asian country “invented” an effective way to “rent its people to other countries. There are millions of North Korean slaves working in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, China.” With this money, Pyongyang “develops its nuclear weapons.”
Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, SA, a Cuban company internationally accused of human trafficking, agreed with Mexico to hire more than 600 doctors, for whom made the monthly payment of $1,308,922.
For her part, the vice president of the European Parliament for Latin America, Dita Charanzová, stated that “80% of what is charged for the missions goes to the regime. It is time for the people to know the truth and the other side of the Cuban medical missions”.
During the conference, the testimony of a Cuban doctor who was in Mexico during the pandemic was disseminated, who revealed that upon arrival in the country their passport is withdrawn. 17 colleagues escaped from his group, leaving the hotels where the Mexican government was hosting them.
According to politician Ricardo Pascoe, the López Obrador government is financing a regime that replaces “the lack of economic development with slave labor.”
“Cuba does not release specialists for fear that they will leave,” said the man, who also stated that the detachment sent by Cuba is made up of military personnel and comprehensive general practitioners “who work in primary care clinics.”
This data confirms the suspicion of Dolores Gonzalez Mezaa union leader in the medical sector who indicated last Sunday that Cuban doctors are not specialists and that they have limited themselves to offering “ambulatory care, prevention and health promotion.”
The doctor consulted by Prisoners Defenders also mentioned that, with a view to their trip to Mexico, 123 Cuban health workers took a course of just five days on the treatment of covid-19, when the duration on the island itself is one year.
“A preparation with some Sabina fans that had nothing to do with those in Mexico, which also has advanced technology and its technicians are of a higher level than the Cubans,” said the man.
According to several reports written by the Cuban health workers themselves, these were limited during the pandemic to “ make beds, take vital signsconduct surveys, in addition to passing sponges to patients to bathe.” This contrasts with the triumphalism of the Cuban authorities, who came to claim the decline in mortality caused by the coronavirus in Mexico.
In addition to these speakers, the press conference included Javier Nart, Vice President of the European Parliament Delegation for Central America, the journalist and novelist Desirée Navarro and the lawyer Emiliano Robles. Prisoners Defenders, a non-profit association based in Madrid, focuses on the defense of “human rights and pro-democracy defense through legal action.”
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