Mexico delivered 34,000,000 Mexican pesos (1,501,766 dollars) to Cuba, according to a report spread by Latinus. The money was transferred in 2021 through the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) to the Marketing Company of Cuban Medical Services, SA, “a company of the Government of Havana accused internationally human trafficking and forced labor.
The Cuban company, created in 2011, it is pointed out in the report, exploits various lines of business that range from sending personnel to international medical missions “paid” by the requesting countries to treatments under the concept of health tourism.
“In the last three years, Conacyt has cut scholarships, funding for research and budgets for education centers in Mexico” and has allocated these resources to the “Government of Díaz-Canel”, it is stated in the information that part of the money he received was for the scholarships to Mexican medical students who are studying a specialty on the island.
That of the scholarships to Mexican medical students to complete their training in Cuba in 2021 was one of the businesses highlighted. Although this year only 172 scholarships out of the 1,600 planned finally materialized, the matter unleashed a controversy that continues in Mexico.
If the coverage of 1,600 scholarships had materialized, the Government of Cuba would have received a total of 40 million dollars as “tuition” for this program. contacted by 14ymediothe senator of the opposition National Action Party, Alejandra Reynoso Sánchez, affirmed that “the Government is using the Conacyt scholarships to finance the Cuban regime.”
“In the last three years, Conacyt has cut scholarships, funding for research, and budgets for education centers in Mexico” and has allocated these resources to the “Government of Díaz-Canel,” Latinus highlights.
Despite the failure and controversy generated in its first edition, This year, Mexico maintained the Conacyt scholarship programto study one of the 13 medical specialties on the island.
What the Cuban Government will receive for each student and specialty, according to the table that appears in euros in the call itself, is much more: pathological anatomy, 7,800 euros; general surgery, 12,500; hygiene and epidemiology, 7,800; medical genetics, 12,500; geriatrics, 7,800; rehabilitation medicine, 9,900; intensive medicine, 12,500; internal medicine, 9,900; pulmonology, 7,800; ophthalmology, 12,500; clinical pathology, 9,900; psychiatry, 9,900, and traumatology and orthopedics, 12,500.
Scholarship doctors, who will receive support of 1,090 euros per month, must cover the cost of medical insurance that ranges from 231 to 753 euros and will be paid “directly.” In addition, students will have to pay $150 for PCR tests and isolation.
Before these cases, 14ymedio published various information about the shady deals between Cuba and the Government of Mexico City for the sending of medical missions from the Island. In July 2020, “the largest deposit was made for these services, corresponding to 135,837,000 pesos to the Cuban Medical Services Marketer, SA”.
The money was transferred to the Cuban regime through HSBC account 4062724620 opened by Banobras, which was canceled in August 2020.
In September 2021, the coordinator in the Mexican Senate of the opposition National Action Party (PAN), Julen Rementería, denounced that high authorities of Mexico and Cuba “ orchestrated a fraud” of 255,873,177 pesos (about 12,692,940 million dollars). The legislator showed that this was what Before these cases, 14ymedio published various information about the shady deals between Cuba and the Government of Mexico City for the sending of medical missions from the Island.
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