Exposing the Cuban Regime’s Dark Trade

Rep. Mark Green (TN-07) re-introduced a bipartisan Congressional Resolution denouncing the communist Cuban regime’s human trafficking, forced labor, and profiteering from its own medical personnel serving around the world.

“We are standing up for Cuban healthcare workers to ensure they are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve,” Rep. Green remarked. “My resolution denounces Cuba’s medical brigade program and the Pan American Health Organization’s role in it. It also urges foreign governments to pay Cuban medical personnel directly to avoid exploitation.”

Green’s team quoted VOC’s President and CEO, Dr. Eric Patterson, saying:

“Cuba’s so called ‘Medical Brigades’ are forced labor schemes masquerading as humanitarian assistance. Medical professionals are coerced to toil in harsh conditions, surveilled, and deprived of their rights, while the regime in Havana broadcasts this act of goodwill and lines their pockets with the stolen wages. Cubans deserve more than their communist oppressors. And that starts with calling out this communist scheme for what it really is—human trafficking.”