“Cuba will continue to provide services,” says Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
Miami, United States. – The chancellor of the Cuban regime, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, described as a policy of “imposition and aggression” the measures of the United States to revoke visas and impose restrictions on officials linked to the program of medical missions of the island, and said that Havana will maintain the shipment of sanitary brigades to other countries.
“Secretary [de] State [de] USA [de] Visas vs. Governments that have legitimate medical cooperation programs with Cuba. It demonstrates imposition and aggression with force as a new foreign policy doctrine of that government. Cuba will continue to provide services ”, published in x.
The pronouncement of the head of Cuban diplomacy occurred on Wednesday, the same day that Washington reported on the revocation of visas and new visa restrictions to “several officials of the Government of Brazil, to former officials of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and relatives of both for their alleged complicity with the scheme of export of labor of the Cuban regime in the Mais Medical Program”.
Rodríguez Parrilla also responded to the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who advertisement This Wednesday that the State Department was taking “measures to revoke visas and impose visa restrictions on several government officials in Brazil and former officials of the complicit OPS of the forced labor export scheme of the Cuban regime”.
In its statement, the State Department said that the sanctioned “were responsible or participated in facilitating the coercive scheme of export of labor of the Cuban regime, which exploits Cuban medical workers through forced labor. This scheme enriches the corrupt Cuban regime and deprives the Cuban people of essential medical care”.
In the same statement it is specified that the State Department “has revoked the visas of Mozart Julio Tabosa Sales and Alberto Kleiman, both of service in the Ministry of Health of Brazil during the Mais Medical program and that played a role in the planning and implementation of the program”.
On the operation of the MAIS Medical program, the note states: “These officials used the PAHO as intermediary with the Cuban dictatorship to implement the program without meeting the Brazilian constitutional requirements, avoiding US sanctions to Cuba and paying to the Cuban regime knowing what corresponded to Cuban medical workers.”
He also argues that “dozens of Cuban doctors who served in the program have reported having been exploited by the Cuban regime as part of the program.”
Also this Wednesday, Washington advertisement Visa restrictions for African and Granada officials whose identity has not been revealed so far.
The measures of this August 14 are added to previous actions. February 25, Rubio had advanced in x: “The United States is expanding its visa restriction policy related to Cuba. The State Department has taken measures to restrict the issuance of visas to Cuban officials and third complicit countries, as well as individuals responsible for the Exploiting Program for Export of Export of Labor of Cuba. We will promote the accountability of the Cuban regime for oppressing their people and those who benefit from forced labor.”
Along the same lines, on June 3 the State Department reported on restrictions addressed to Central America: “The State Department He adopted measures to impose visa restrictions on several officials of Governments of Central America and their relatives for his link with the forced labor scheme of the Cuban regime. Officials are responsible for programs of Cuban medical missions that include elements of forced labor and the exploitation of Cuban workers. These measures promote the accountability of those who support and perpetuate these exploiting practices. ”
Then, the entity stressed: “The Labor Export Program of Cuba abuses the participants, enriches the corrupt Cuban regime and deprives Cubans at the foot of the essential medical care that they desperately need in their homeland,” and framed those decisions in a general political objective: “Our goal is to support the Cuban people in their search for freedom and dignity, while promoting account A forced labor scheme.
