Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba
As was stated in the Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba on August 29, 2019, the government of the United States has deployed, as from last year, an intensive and defamatory campaign against the medical cooperation offered by Cuba, which adds to the threats of sanctions against Cuban leaders and pressures exerted on recipient States to make them dispense with said cooperation.
Such campaign, meticulously directed from the White House National Security Council, has counted on the active participation of senators and members of Congress associated to the anti-Cuban mafia in Florida and frenzied State Department officials.
Cuba is being accused of allegedly engaging in “modern slavery” and “trafficking” in persons working in Cuba’s health system for the purpose of exploitation or for being used to allegedly interfere in the internal affairs of the States they have been assigned to.
The US government is likewise attempting to re-instate the so called “Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program which was in force until January 12, 2017 in support to an active operation to incite defection, which included the funding of air tickets and legal services, as well as the issuance of US visas and traveling documents for Cuban cooperation workers in third countries, with the purpose of sabotaging the bilateral agreements signed with these nations, deprive those countries from these services and divest ourselves from highly qualified human resources.
Follow link: http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2019-12-06/us-crusade-against-cuban-international-medical-cooperation