{"id":1249281,"date":"2022-01-27T23:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T04:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1249281"},"modified":"2022-01-27T23:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T04:38:44","slug":"report-documents-1000-cases-of-state-sponsored-slavery-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-documents-1000-cases-of-state-sponsored-slavery-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Documents 1000+ Cases of State-Sponsored Slavery in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-documents-1000-cases-of-state-sponsored-slavery-in-cuba%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1249281&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Multiple human rights organizations expanded existing complaints at the International Criminal Court and United Nations against Cuba this week with over 1,000 testimonies from individuals formerly enslaved by the regime in fields as diverse as medicine and seafaring.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban Prisoners Defenders, in conjunction with the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) and the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), the largest dissident organization on the island, debuted their research this week, cataloging 1,111 cases of Cuban citizens that the state forced into working internationally only to confiscate the vast majority of their salaries. Witnesses testified to human rights crimes such as having their passports confiscated abroad to prevent them from leaving their \u201cmissions,\u201d widespread sexual harassment, grueling work hours despite the lack of pay, and constant threats against their persons and their families from the state.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In all of the cases documented, the individuals have been subjected to what has come to be known as the \u201ceight-year rule,\u201d which bans defectors from entering Cuba for at least eight years. In those eight years, the defectors lose all their property on the island and are forcibly severed from ties to their families, including their children in cases where the slaves have left small children behind.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban doctor slave trade \u2014 in which the Communist Party sells doctors, nurses, and other health workers to friendly countries as slaves and forces them to engage in political propaganda and falsify medical records \u2014 has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2020\/09\/24\/cuban-doctors-communists-made-us-destroy-medicine-foreign-missions\/\">documented<\/a> for years. The new report, <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ZBiC9PiL2GT1ILYYSY5-UB9rjOGQCuCr\/view\">titled<\/a>&nbsp;\u201c1,111 Cuban Professionals vs. Cuban Government: Cuba\u2019s Internationalization Missions,\u201d breaks new ground by documenting slavery in a variety of other industries, including \u201cteaching, marine, engineering, art, music and architecture services.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7249895\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/stet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7249895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/stet.jpg\" alt=\"doctor\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holding her stethoscope, the Cuban doctor, Vivian Iglesias climbs stairs to visits her patients in the shantytown of Resplandor in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 15, 2003. Iglesias is one of 1,000 Cuban doctors working and living in Venezuelan slums in a project sponsored by President Hugo Chavez\u2019s revolution for Venezuela\u2019s poor. (AP Photo\/Fernando Llano)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBetween 50,000 and 100,000 Cuban workers abroad suffer these conditions,\u201d the report revealed. \u201cMore than 35,000 related to medical missions, more than 7,000 related to the seamen\u2019s service, but many thousands of other civilians employed in the most diverse sectors (art, sports, teaching, engineering, architecture and many other sectors).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuba law mandates that the vast majority of the salaries of these workers go to the communist regime. It also micromanages their lives abroad and significantly infringes on the freedoms of their families. Women enslaved by the Castro family are forced to return to Cuba to give birth no matter where in the world they are in order to prevent women from giving birth to a foreign national and potentially seeking residency elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The human rights groups also found, through interviews with the victims, that 68 percent of the workers recruited do not get to see the contracts between the Castro regime and the companies \u201chiring\u201d them \u2014 where the companies agree to pay the government directly \u2014 before beginning their work.<\/p>\n<p>The report documents&nbsp;44,589 human rights violations punishable by international law and lists 82 countries where these violations have occurred, including nations as distant from each other as China, Ukraine, Malta, Mexico, Vietnam, and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most shocking cases detailed in the report is that of Cubans forced to work for the luxury cruise company Malta Seafarers Company (MSC) Limited. MSC, the organizations allege, would allegedly sign agreements with the Cuban government in which it would pay Havana 80 percent of each workers\u2019 base salary directly. The contract imposed a $10,000 fine on MSC for \u201ceach Cuban who escapes,\u201d strongly implying that the labor negotiated for was not voluntary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOn the ships, according to the testimonies in our possession, the MSC Cruises\u2019 company retains their passports in the \u2018Crew Purser\u2019 not only during the voyage, but also in the countries where they touch port, to prevent, according to the testimonies, \u2018Cubans from escaping,&#8217;\u201d the report alleged.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19658922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Malta-Seafarers-Company-MSC-cruise-ship-2022-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19658922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Malta-Seafarers-Company-MSC-cruise-ship-2022-ap.jpg\" alt=\"Passengers disembark from the cruise ship &#039;MSC Preziosa&#039;&#039;, in the Port Area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, after Brazil&#039;s Sanitary Agency has confirmed more cases of COVID-19 on board. Rio&#039;s Health Secretariat said that those living in the city or nearby regions will be quarantined in their homes. Those who live outside the state will be isolated in hotels. (AP Photo\/Bruna Prado)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers disembark from the cruise ship \u201cMSC Preziosa,\u201d in the Port Area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, after Brazil\u2019s Sanitary Agency has confirmed more cases of COVID-19 on board. (AP Photo\/Bruna Prado)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Every Mediterranean country where the ships would dock, the defectors said, allowed the Cubans to enter without their passports so long as they were clearly in the employ of MSC, including European Union nations. The only exception was Croatia, where the government \u201crefused to let them go down to its territory without a passport and demanded that they let them have their passport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report implies that many more tourism- and luxury-adjacent industries are part of Cuba\u2019s \u201cmission\u201d program, benefitting from slavery. It noted that the head of SELECMAR, the Cuban state-owned company contracting with MSC, admitted to Chinese state media recently that American sanctions on the Cuban tourism sector had \u201cprevented the recruitment of 3,500 more seafarers in slave labor in 2019 and 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As many as 100,000 Cubans are trapped in slave programs, the report estimates, and the regime has blocked as many as 40,000 Cuban parents from seeing their children for eight years as a result of defection. All 1,111 individuals whose stories are compiled in the study have been subjected to eight years of exile.<\/p>\n<p>Slave \u201cmissions,\u201d the human rights groups assert, bring the Castro regime more money than any other endeavor, raking in an estimated $8.5 billion in 2018. The missions may be even more important to funding the Cuban Communist Party in light of the collapse of the tourism industry on the island as a result of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643287487626000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3FUQUXd_l8yxhVde9H7F3k\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643287487626000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0x0dr_PgXYM7ME8mA6lbmQ\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple human rights organizations expanded existing complaints at the International Criminal Court and United Nations against Cuba this week with over 1,000 testimonies from individuals formerly enslaved by the regime &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}