MIAMI, United States.- The Umbrella Art Foundation, in collaboration with the Victims of Communism Foundation, invites next Friday, August 5, to the photographic exhibition La Mano Esclava, about Cuban medical missions and the myth of the communist health system.
The exhibition will be inaugurated at 6:00 in the afternoon at The Art Space, located at 729 8th Street, southwest of Miami, and can be visited until Saturday, August 13, the day set for the closing.
According to the curator and activist Ana Olema, the exhibition of documentary and artistic photography is a denunciation made from images sent by citizens, which also addresses “the health crisis in Cuba and the lie that is that medical power ”.
As part of the activities attached to the exhibition, on Saturday, August 6, in the same gallery, the documentary The Witness Project will be screened, directed by Diddier Santos and which tells the story of Yohanna Arronte Cuellar, a Cuban doctor who escaped from a medical mission.
The event will also feature the participation of Cuban-American researcher María Werlau, in a panel that will discuss the situation faced by health professionals who are exported by the communist regime in Havana.
According to Olema, an exhibition like La Mano Esclava is very important in the current context after governments in the region, such as Mexico, have decided to continue “buying” medical services from the Cuban government, thereby giving a new boost to the dictatorship.
During the closing of the event, a conversation will take place with analysts, artists and activists who are inside Cuba and in exile, as well as testimonial videos of Cuban doctors.
Organizations such as Prisoners Defenders have denounced on several occasions, and even before the United Nations, the conditions of slavery in which Cuban doctors work in the so-called internationalist missions of the island regime.
The most recent controversy in this regard was unleashed in Mexico, after last May the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced the hiring of at least 500 Cuban doctors due to the shortage of professionals in the Aztec country.
The island’s doctors who have been arriving in Mexican territory in recent weeks will go to work in highly insecure rural areas, even local media outlets have denounced.
This Wednesday met that Mexico would be paying the Cuban regime more than one million euros per month (1,177,300 euros, the equivalent of 1,195,936 dollars) for a group of 610 doctors from the island.
According to the agreement signed between the governments of AMLO and Miguel Díaz-Canel, Mexico will pay the dictatorship 39,000 Mexican pesos, the equivalent of 1,897 dollars per month for each doctor.
However, it is not known how much of this money will reach the pockets of the specialists, since Havana keeps at least 80% of said salaries, according to what Cuban professionals who have abandoned the missions have denounced.
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