The pressure from the US to bring Cuba’s economy to a It is not only taking place in the energetic aspect. Washington has been demanding Caribbean countries to end their medical collaboration agreements with Cuba.
As reported by the French media , the US State Department justifies those pressures indicating that the members of the Cuban medical missions are victims of “forced labor”, or even “human trafficking”.
In that sense, it is worth remembering that, with the intention of achieving mass access to education and medicine after the Castro revolution, Cuba has sent more than 600,000 to more than 160 countries around the world since 1963.
Over the past few weeks, countries like Jamaica, Honduras and Guatemala have announced the end of their collaboration agreements in the health field despite the fact that they had been in force for decades. This decrease in medical professionals from Cuba could cause major problems in the health care capacity of those countries.
On March 5, the Jamaican Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smithstated, before the country’s Parliament, that “The US Government had expressed its concern about the functioning of Cuban medical programs all over the world.”
Nevertheless, The Jamaican minister refused to recognize that his country had ended its medical collaboration agreement with Cuba as a consequence of the North American influence.
And the breaking of those contracts with Cuba could continue in the coming weeks. As they point out from The World“the continuity of this white coat diplomacy is also increasingly uncertain in several countries of the Lesser Antilles, including Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago”.
