Overview
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Latin America Studies and Programs Center promotes individual freedom, respect for human rights, and democracy throughout Latin America, but especially Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. Our researchers document human rights abuses, support in-region civil society and pro-democracy groups, and educate the American public and U.S. policy makers about the realities on the ground.
Programs
The Castro regime has developed sophisticated human trafficking and forced labor schemes to exploit the Cuban people, with emphasis on health personnel. The Cuban regime, in collusion with international communist allies, sends Communist Medical Brigades overseas to sell health care services for propaganda purposes. Communist commissaries and secret police agents oversee the Communist Medical Brigades’ workers and regularly confiscate between 75% and 90% of their wages. VOC’s Latin America Programs advocate for the rights of these workers, conducting research on Trafficking in Medical Personnel (TIMP) and providing legal assistance to these victims of communism.
Publications
Media Contact: Sarah Hrovat voc@pinkston.co Washington, D.C. (June 6, 2022) – The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation has partnered with the Gloria Delson Contemporary Art Gallery (GDCA Gallery) in downtown Los Angeles to support the work of artist-activists (‘artivists’) from…
El sábado 5 de marzo, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation y la galería Montserrat Contemporary Art dieron inicio la exhibición de arte contemporáneo Umbral, organizada bajo la curaduría de las artistas cubanas Anamely Ramos y Claudia Genlui Hidalgo. La exposición…
On Saturday, March 5, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and the Montserrat Contemporary Art gallery began the Umbral contemporary art exhibition, organized under the curatorship of Cuban artists Anamely Ramos and Claudia Genlui Hidalgo. The exhibition opens an Umbral…
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation inaugurated two contemporary art exhibitions on Cuba and Venezuela – “The Veil of Silence” and “Venezuela Resists, Images of a Tragedy” – on November 2, 2021, at the Art Museum of the Americas of…
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation inauguró el 2 de noviembre de 2021, en el Museo de Arte de las Américas de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) en Washington D.C, dos exposiciones de arte contemporáneo tituladas “El ropaje del…
It never left. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, communism stayed, like an encrusted disease in Cuba, waiting for a big come back in the Western Hemisphere. Latin American communists were demoralized by the Soviet Union’s failure. They gave…
Evolución, dinámicas y desafíos Este informe fue elaborado por la Dra. Elaine Acosta González, Académica Visitante en el Instituto de Investigaciones sobre Cuba (CRI) de la Universidad Internacional de Florida (FIU), para la Fundación Memorial Víctimas del Comunismo (VOC) en…
Evidence-based concerns raised by nine United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteurs dismissed as “fabricated” and “defamatory” by PRC. The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), and China Aid Association (CA) say China’s…
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), along with our partners and allies, are making a lot of progress in Uruguay fighting the Cuban regime’s human trafficking and forced labor schemes. We have been advocating for and taking legal action…
