To promote a peaceful transition to a Cuba that respects human rights
and political and economic freedoms
AMLO’s government pays the Cuban doctors room and board and wages of more than 5,000 US dollars a month.
Venezuelan attorney and human rights defender Tamara Suju Roa, of the CASLA Institute, writing in La Patilla on May 25th warns of steps taken by the Mexican government that give her a sense of déjà vu with the path taken by Hugo Chavez to consolidate power in Venezuela. Mexico's President ,Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), is seeking to amend the constitution, militarize domestic policing, and set up a "happiness index". These were all steps taken by Hugo Chavez at the start of his presidency in Venezuela twenty years ago.
Meanwhile, President López Obrador achieved an objective denied him since he took power in December 2018, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, he was finally able to bring in hundreds of Cuban doctors and subsidize the Castro dictatorship. Victor Hugo Becerra on May 27th writing in the Pan Am Post on this subject speculated that the Mexican president's statement that the deadly pandemic “fit like a glove” was made because he had used the pretext of this crisis to reach this goal.
The Yucatan Times in their May 16th article, "More than 800 Cuban health professionals are working in Mexico," reported that "AMLO's government pays the Cuban doctors room and board and wages of more than $5,000 US dollars a month." This is nearly six times what Mexican health workers are paid. (This is $1,600 more than the $3,400 Brazil paid the Castro regime for each Cuban health worker. Each Cuban health worker in Brazil was paid $790 per month.) This is at the same time that Mexican doctors are receiving unfair salaries, terrible benefits, and go days without food. Similar to other governments that have these arrangements with the Castro regime, "AMLO’s government has repeatedly denied access to information about exact and real numbers. How many doctors and health professionals are in the country, and how much this “help” costs Mexico."
However, through sources within the federal government’s Health Secretariat it was learned there are "almost 800 Cuban doctors and health workers" now working in Mexico to deal with COVID-19. This translates into $4 million dollars per month and $48 million dollars per year. This money is not going to Cuban doctors, but the Castro regime in an arrangement that UN human rights experts equate with human trafficking and "forced labor."
Jason Poblete made public by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation on Youtube on May 26, 2020 outlined this illicit practice and explored legal avenues for redress on behalf of the Cuban health workers, who are victims of human trafficking.
This move is not popular in Mexico. There is not a shortage of Mexican medical doctors, but there is a shortage of funds to provide them positions in medical institutions and 20,000 new graduates in medicine per year are unable to find work. There is also a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) that has led to many health workers getting sick and placed in quarantine. This subsidy to the Castro regime does not help on the PPE front and does not help unemployed Mexican doctors. This has been going on for some time.
However, there is also a security concern with this influx of Cuban doctors into Mexico.
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