The characteristics of the last Cuban medical brigade imported by Mexico, which began to arrive in the last week of July, offer no doubt of the spurious interests behind the façade of humanitarian collaboration with which they have been sold to public opinion.
“They are all military” and “none is a specialist doctor” (but family doctors or generalists), says Prisoners Defenders (PD) in your detailed report The military truth behind the Cuban medical missions in Mexico, presented this Thursday in the Mexican capital, about the more than 600 restrooms government contracted by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to, supposedly, fill positions that Mexican specialists do not want due to “insecurity and remoteness.”
Some of these soldiers, the report collects and the director of the PD, Javier Larrondo, also asserted at the press conference this Thursday, are “from Cuban Intelligence or G2, already introduced into the country through military airports, without authorities, except for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his closest team, can learn of this fact”.
The document dismantles what it calls “national fraud” by the Mexican president: the tender to cover 13,765 positions for specialist doctors “in humble and high-risk areas of the country,” launched after complaints against previous contracted Cuban missions.
The document dismantles what it calls “national fraud” by the Mexican president: the tender to cover 13,765 positions for specialist doctors “in humble and high-risk areas of the country”
“The characteristics of the areas to be tendered, which concentrated the majority of the ‘vacant’ places, do not have the infrastructure and basic equipment for training, care and decent work for doctors, as exposed by schools, associations and federations last 1 June,” the report explains. “For this reason, the inevitable happened and what could undoubtedly be predicted by the Government: more than 60% of the places remained vacant.”
In other words, the tender, in the opinion of the Madrid-based organization, was only an “excuse” for the hiring of Cuban doctors, who, despite what was publicized by the official propagandaThey don’t have any specialty.
Havana presents them as such, PD refers, after passing courses of between three and five days, “without documentary evidence or any professional validation or homologation in Mexico.”
The discrimination that Cubans entail against their Mexican counterparts, who, as the report reveals, are required to meet numerous requirements to practice as specialists, is also being denounced precisely by health personnel of the state of Colimaone of the areas where doctors from the Island have already arrived, along with Nayarit.
Prisoners Defenders also points out in its report the “political, civil and criminal responsibility” that López Obrador faces for knowing “perfectly the convictions for slavery and all the circumstances that affect this slavery and putting the health of Mexican citizens, as well as the embezzlement that this farce of health services represents for the public coffers.
Among them, violating several articles of the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC) “by promoting and promoting human trafficking and slavery on Mexican soil.” The consequences of this, asserts the NGO, “could be extensive for the Government of the Republic and lead to even more serious sanctions or consequences.”
According to the legal agreement collected by Prisoners Defenders, the IMSS will give the Medical Services Marketer of Cuba up to 1,177,300 euros per month (more than 14 million euros per year)
The report includes a count of the health missions that have been taken to Mexican soil, since the first, in April 2020, with the argument of helping to combat the covid-19 pandemic. All of them were harshly questioned from the start by the medical union, the Mexican media and opposition politicians.
From the contracting of the first contingents, PD details the specific amounts that the Mexican Administration paid to Havana: more than six million dollars from the government of Mexico City (where 585 health workers worked), two million dollars from the government of Veracruz (which received 174) and almost two million pesos (around 100,000 dollars) from the government of Quintana Roo (where seven health workers were). In addition to them, during those months 40 doctors collaborated in Tabasco.
The following brigades, sent largely to military hospital facilities, were marked by opacity. However, in these years there have been few reports published in the local press revealing some details, such as, for example, that Cuban health workers, far from fighting covid-19, limited themselves to “making beds” and “conducting surveys” due to their lack of specialization.
In total, between April 6, 2020 and July 15, 2021, documents Prisoners Defenders, a total of 1,947 Cuban collaborators were sent to Mexico due to the covid-19 pandemic. Of them “defected” 17, which the organization has registered.
For the more than 600 that will be arriving in 15 Mexican states in the coming months, according to the legal agreement compiled by Prisoners Defenders, the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) will give the Cuban Medical Services Marketer up to 1,177,300 euros to month (more than 14 million euros per year). Payments will be made, continues the NGO, to an account of the Marketing Company, “by bank transfer to an account of the Government of Cuba.”
Lastly, PD recalls, in its investigation, all the instances that have spoken out against the internationalist missions, classifying them as forced labor, as Human Rights FoundationHuman Rights Watch, the US State Department or the European Parliament.
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