Last month, Cuba sent 60 military personnel to the Mexican state of Naiarite who would pretend to be doctors through an agreement to reinforce health care in the North American country – along the lines of the Mais Médicos program, developed in Brazil.
The information was disclosed at a press conference in Mexico City by the NGO Prisoners Defenders this Thursday (25), in which information was presented about irregularities in the agreement signed between the Mexican government and the Castro dictatorship.
According to information from the news website Infobae, Javier Larrondo, president of the NGO, said that there is no evidence that these 60 people identified by Cuba as medical specialists are really health professionals and that they would actually be military personnel sent with the aim of preventing the real doctors who were already in Mexico flee to the United States.
The Prisoners Defenders investigation pointed out that Cuba has been sending family health doctors and nurses to Mexico, who receive training for just a few days and are titled as specialists, “a large-scale fraud that has been putting the health of patients at risk. ”, stressed the NGO in a statement.
Dita Charanzova, vice president of the European Parliament, said in an online appearance that medical brigades represent the biggest source of revenue for the Cuban government and that these professionals working abroad are targets of persecution, modern slavery and threats. More than 80% of her payments go to the Cuban regime, while “doctors live in poverty,” she said.
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