MIAMI, United States. – This Sunday the first 60 Cuban doctors hired by the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrado (AMLO) arrived in Mexico, according to the newspaper the day.
The island’s doctors, exported by the Havana regime, are the advance guard of a group of 500. At the beginning of May, during a visit by AMLO to the island, the Mexican government and the Cuban authorities signed an agreement on health matters for hiring half a thousand doctors by the Aztec country.
AMLO, what has been criticized for hiring doctors from the island before nationals and for contributing to the exploitation scheme of the Cuban regime, he has defended that it is a decision based on human rights and not on ideology.
“I made the decision to hire specialists from abroad and doctors from Cuba are going to come, because health has nothing to do with ideologies, but with human rights. And if we have to bring them from the United States, Russia, Cuba, Japan or France, we are going to have them here,” he said.
This Sunday, the Cuban doctors participated in a meeting with the president of Mexico, who checked the Health for Well-being program at the IMSS-Well-being hospital in Rosamorada, in the state of Nayarit.
In accordance with the day, the reporters present sought a statement from the Cuban mission. However, “the doctors avoided prominence and evaded the interviews,” reads the note from the Mexican newspaper.
Last May, AMLO described criticism of his plans to hire 500 Cuban doctors as “vile”. “It is vile that for political, ideological reasons, for conservatism, for a retrograde way of thinking, the hiring of Cuban doctors is disqualified,” said during one of his daily press conferences known as “Las Mañaneras”.
Trying to evade further criticism, AMLO also assured that his government will first hire nationals, especially thousands of medical specialists that are required in the country.
Last February, Republican congressmen María Elvira Salazar, Mario Díaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez, and Senator Marco Rubio sent a letter to the Department of Labor’s Office of Commerce and Labor Affairs, requesting an investigation into possible violations of the United States Treaty. States-Mexico-Canada by Mexico.
“By forcibly exporting its doctors, the Cuban regime is sponsoring human trafficking. Our trading partner, Mexico, accepts exploited labor,” said the congressmen.
Also in February 2022, the portal Latinus denounced the link between the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (Conacyt) and the Cuban regime to the detriment of the development of knowledge and research in the Aztec country.
Latinus revealed that in 2021 the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador —through Conacyt— had paid 34 million pesos (1.66 million dollars in exchange) to the Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos SA, an internationally accused corporation created in 2011 human trafficking and forced labor.
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