The Enslavement of Cuban Professionals

The Enslavement of Cuban Professionals / Angel Santiesteban
Posted on April 7, 2015

What value is there in loudly bragging about Cuba as a "medical world
power" and that it "disinterestedly" sends thousands of doctors around
the planet, when in reality the Cuban archipelago, for many years, has
been far from this false image as an island paradise, from the moment
when the Castro brothers calculated the numbers and dividends from the
hugely lucrative business represented by selling the cheap slave labor
of these professionals.

Thanks to these medical brigades, the government adds millions to its
coffers, which wouldn't be bad if they paid these doctors, nurses and
health technicians a large percentage of the revenue they generate and
not the paltry share they currently receive of the contracts signed
between States.

What happens to doctors, also happens to athletes, artists, university
professors and any professional that serves their interests; but this
post is dedicated to the exploited of medicine.

The Castro brothers, once they took power — secured with populist and
social laws — the concerned themselves more with foreign policy,
interested in regional influence with the aim of extending their
communist ideology, than with domestic issues.

They started exporting the Revolution with the seeding of guerrillas in
several continents. One example is the conflict that persists today in
Colombia, half a century after that attempt of insurrectional social
war, that installed them in power. But that dream — or nightmare — was
cut short. It mutated from the original ideals, and — passing through
various stages such as the military support in Africa — to an attempt to
win elections with popular leftist movements.

The guerrillas were ordered to shift tactics: exchanging their weapons
and camouflage, they dressed them in brand name suits and ties to take
the floor to manipulate the society's most economically disadvantaged.
Cuban military advisors hang stethoscopes around their necks and dress
in white coats.

In short, a great part of this new hidden force is in the nobility of
the medical professional, continuing the work of the prior military
advisors, in order to influence and support the choice of the Castros
for the presidency of this country. Meanwhile, whether or not they
achieve that, the Cuban government receives the salaries of its 21st
Century slaves.



Ángel Santiesteban-Prats
Border Control Prison Unit, Havana, March 2015

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