MADRID, Spain.- Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio (Republican of Florida) denounced this Tuesday the exploitation of the Cuban regime to the doctors it sends on an “internationalist mission.”
“The ‘medical brigades’ are a human trafficking scheme,” Rubio said from the social network Twitter; as well as recalled that they constitute “a financial income for the regime.”
In addition, he stressed that Cuba has lived for more than six decades under a dictatorship that does not allow free and fair elections and that the regime has imprisoned more than 1,000 people for political reasons.
Correction:⁰
-The “medical brigades” are a human trafficking scheme and a financial income for the regime
-?? has lived for more than six decades under a dictatorship that does not allow free and fair elections
-?? has more than a thousand political prisoners, including several Afro-Cubans https://t.co/ZuNPgYqPCf– Senator Marco Rubio (@SenMarcoRubio) March 14, 2023
This post by the senator was in response to the statements of Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez, who last February visited the Island and recently defended the medical brigades.
Vice President Francia Márquez does not believe that Cuba is a dictatorship. She says that Colombia is. Here is the interesting fragment of her interview with SEMANA pic.twitter.com/mp3FhYeBUs
— Vicky Davila (@VickyDavilaH) March 14, 2023
“They can say anything, but they can’t cover the sun with a finger. While other countries send troops and weapons to many nations, Cuba sends doctors, and they cannot hide that,” Márquez said in an interview with the Colombian publication Semana.
The sending of Cuban doctors abroad by the regime has been questioned on numerous occasions, due to the working conditions in which the doctors work and the rights violations to which they are subjected.
This Tuesday transcended that the Mexican government plans to hire another 600 Cuban doctors for the public health massification program promoted by the president of that country, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
This information was shared by the director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, during the usual press conference offered by AMLO from the National Palace.
The “exchange” in health matters between Mexico and the Cuban regime dates back to the COVID-19 pandemic, when AMLO requested help from Havana to face the health crisis. Since then the agreement has received numerous criticisms, including those carried out by the Mexican medical awards.
