MADRID, Spain.- The Prisoners Defenders (PD) Organization denounced the governments of Mexico, Italy and Qatar for hiring Cuban professionals in “slave-like conditions.”
Through a report shared this Tuesday, Prisoners Defenders recalled that the legal and contractual conditions in which Cuban doctors live abroad violate all international labor standards and subject these professionals to laws that “outrage the human condition to the medieval limits regarding servitude, slavery and trafficking in human beings”.
The laws imposed by the Cuban regime on workers “on mission” include the sanction of up to eight years in prison for the professional who leaves the job, or the one who finishes it but does not immediately return to Cuba, through the criminal offense called “Abandonment of functions”; and they are obliged to inform the immediate superior of their relationships with nationals or foreigners; just as they cannot leave Cuba with a current passport, but with the so-called “Official Passport”, internationally legal and of very short temporary validity, highlighted PD.
In the case of Italy, the president of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto, has transgressed the labor regulations of the International Labor Organization, the European Union and the Republic of Italy by hiring a Cuban medical brigade that, as it has demonstrated, it operates under slave-owning legislation and allows the Cuban government to confiscate 75% of salaries.
While in Mexico, as Resolution 368 dictates, “they must notify the representative responsible for CSMC, SA for the legal instrument that is filed in the United Mexican States, or failing that, the highest Management of CSMC, SA of their intention to receive a visit from a family member or friend in the town where he provides services under this contract”.
Regarding Qatar, Prisoners Defenders recalls that the daily Guardian published an investigation that revealed that Cuban medical personnel in Qatar receive only 10% of what medical professionals earn in government hospitals in that country on a monthly basis.
Havana has been sending Cuban doctors abroad since the early 1960s. Currently, there are an estimated 30,000 health professionals working in “medical missions” in 60 countries; which represents one of the largest sources of income for the Government of the Island.
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