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Cuban dictatorship’s doctor slave trade brought $5 billion in revenue in 2022
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n 2019, the year prior to the pandemic, they generated a total of $5.382 billion in revenue from the sale of medical services. The export of professionals, including doctors, engineers, teachers, and military experts, remains one of the top three sectors contributing the highest amount of dollars, alongside remittances and tourism.
The total value of exported services in foreign trade in 2022 was $7,063,889,800 ($5,884,178,200 in 2021; $6,879,664,900 in 2020, and $9,867,141,200 in 2019). This means that over 69% of this figure corresponds to the export of labor.
However, this economy of services harms the availability of professionals in the domestic market. In fact, the ONEI itself acknowledged that from 2021 to 2022, the Public Health sector had lost over 31 thousand professionals, including 12,065 doctors, 7,414 nurses, 3,246 dentists, and 4,579 technicians.
This exodus of healthcare professionals occurs in a context of a medicine and resource crisis used in hospital care, which has serious consequences for the well-being of the Cuban people.
Exporting medical services is more profitable than sugar, nickel, and cocoa combined.
According to ONEI data, the sale of professional services is more than double the export of several commodities, such as mining products, cocoa, tobacco, and sugar, combined.
The 2022 Yearbook reflects foreign sales in the order of $26 million in agricultural products, $54 million in fishery-derived products, $61 million from the sugar industry, $230 million from the tobacco industry, and $961 million from mining. The aforementioned only adds up to $2.17 billion, a figure that contrasts with the nearly $5 billion from medical services.
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Slave trade 90 miles from Florida but don’t expect anything from the DC sewer rats. They are envious./s