Business of Mexico Hiring Cuban Doctors Continues (Video)
HAVANA TIMES – Mexico has a new president, but are the business deals with Cuba ending? An investigation revealed that the Mexican federal government paid Cuban authorities more than 23 million euros over six months for 610 doctors hired to provide healthcare services in rural areas.
What is behind this deal? What can be expected under the new president Claudia Sheinbaum? While the Cuban government exports doctors, is there anything left of the healthcare system that the so-called ‘Revolution’ once touted as a success?
The video has subtitles in English.
It is a well known fact to those who follow Cuban politics and Cuban news that the Cuban totalitarian government uses and treats its trained professionals like doctors, nurses, dentists and other professionals as indentured slaves. This video documentary clearly verifies that notion.
The documentary stated that Cuban doctors shipped to Mexico aboard military aircraft receive only a fraction of the salaries they are entitled to. The totalitarian government keeps 75 percent of all salaries while the indentured doctor receives only 25 percent.
Lo and behold if any Cuban physician even dares to either complain or try to escape this enslaved transactional treatment. Harsh personal penalties are the consequences of not obeying the Cuban totalitarian authorities.
The documentary details that “ . . . the Mexican federal government paid Cuban authorities more than 23 million euros over six months for 610 doctors hired to provide healthcare services in rural areas.” That is certainly not pocket change. Yet the Cuban totalitarian rulers have the gall to not fix their failing, decrepit power plants.
With 23 million euros and more arriving in Cuban coffers on a regular basis, how much food and medicine can that money buy for needy Cuban children and families? Wasn’t the whole idea of the 1959 Revolution, to which the present ideologues fully subscribe, to ameliorate the exploitation that existed prior to 1959? Where exactly is all that 23 million euros going?
To put the blame for Cuba’s present power plant blackouts on the U S A blockade is farcical. Any parts or materials needed to remedy the neglected, broken down power plant infrastructure could easily be purchased from the Chinese – brothers in ideological arms. Like good capitalist, the Chinese expect to be paid however.
That is where the cunandrum occurs. The Cuban totalitarian rulers expect “freebies” as though they were still living in the 20th century rather than the present 21st. Constant blackouts, lack of food, lack of essential medicines need not occur if the Cuban government only practiced 21st century money management.
That’s 23 million euros the documentary exposes – not 23 million worthless Cuban pesos. Twenty three million euros is a lot of potential purchasing power in the right hands.