US sanctions Brazilian health officials for medical tasks in Cuba Foreign Affairs Donald Trump News

The United States has announced that it is isolating the visas of Brazilian and African officials and the Caribbean region because of their relations with the Cuba program, which sends doctors abroad, which Washington described as “forced work”.

The United States has appointed two Brazilian Ministry of Health officials, Mozart Giulio Tabosa sales and Alberto Cleman, whose visas were canceled to work on the Brazilian MAIS Medicos program, or “More Doctors” program, which was created in 2013.

In a statement on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the sanctions were imposed on officials “involved in incitement to the forced labor export system of the Cuban system”, which claimed “enriches the corrupt Cuban system and deprives the Cuban people of basic medical care.”

“The Foreign Ministry has taken steps to cancel visas and impose restrictions on the visa on many Brazilian government officials, former US Health Organization officials (Paho), and their family members because of their complicity with the employment export plan in the Cuban system in the Mais Medicos program,” said Rubio.

In a previous statement, Rubio also announced the visa restrictions for African officials, without specifying the countries concerned, as well as Careada Country Grenada, for the same reasons.

The Cuban government called on Washington’s efforts to stop its medical tasks, a sarcastic excuse to continue its foreign currency profits.

“Its medical cooperation will continue,” said Johanna Tbada, Deputy Director of US Affairs in Cuba.

((Rubio) Priorities talk about volumes: financing the genocide of Israel in Palestine, torturing Cuba, and continuing with health care services for those who need it more, “he wrote to meet X.

The international missions of Cuba are sold to the third countries and act as a major source of foreign currency of the economically isolated nation, which are subject to sanctions paralyzed for decades by the United States.

International medical awareness in Havana is due to the years that followed the Cuban Revolution of 1959, as the Communist government was presented in Fidel Castro A. Free or low -cost medical program To develop countries as an action of international solidarity.

It is estimated that Havana has sent between 135,000 and 400,000 Cuban doctors abroad over the past five decades.

Brazilian Health Minister Alexander Badilha said his government would not bow to what he called “unreasonable attacks” on Mais Medicos.

Cuba’s contract was terminated in the program in 2018 after Geor Bolsonaro at the time interrogated the terms of the agreement and the qualifications of Cuban doctors.

Washington is already participating in a hot diplomat with the government Polsonaro’s ongoing trial On the alleged coup plot in 2022.

A general health care system aims to be universal. But contracts of penalties and shrinkage in tourism are due Travel prohibition Trump It means that the one -party condition is no longer a medical self.

Since his return to the White House, the Trump administration has resumed its “maximum pressure” campaign against Cuba, which described his first term.

Last year, the 9.7 million people of the island of 300 million dollars were unable to import raw materials to produce hundreds of critical drugs.

In July, Trump Imposition Against Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Konel, Minister of Revolutionary Armed Forces Alvaro Lopez Mira, and Interior Minister Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas for “their role in the brutality of the Cuban regime towards the Cuban people.”

Earlier, the Trump administration also indicated its intention to tighten the visa restrictions on Cuban and foreign officials associated with the medical missions of Wavana around the world.

Rubio described the medical program as “rented” medical professionals by other countries at high prices, “but” most revenues are kept by the Cuban authorities. “

In 1999, after the Hugo Chavez revolutionary revolution in Venezuela, Cuba sent the medical staff and teachers to the country. On the other hand, Cuba bought Venezuelan oil at lower prices than the market, as it put the idea of exporting Havana from medical professionals as a source of revenue.

About 30,000 Cuban medical workers were sent to Venezuela in the first ten years of the “Oil for Doctors” program.

Cuba later received a hard currency to create permanent medical tasks in countries including South Africa, Brazil, Ecuador and Qatar.