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English/ Español: Rubio, Menendez Unveil New Effort To Combat Trafficking Of Cuban Doctors
Bipartisan legislation strengthens accountability for the Cuban regime’s human trafficking schemes and supports Cuban medical professionals serving overseas
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, introduced the Combating Trafficking of Cuban Doctors Act. This new bill seeks to strengthen accountability for the Cuban regime’s documented human trafficking and exploitation of Cuban doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals through the so-called ‘foreign medical missions’. The legislation reaffirms the United States’ commitment to defending democratic values and human rights in Cuba, and re-establishes the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program, suspended under the Obama Administration, in order to allow eligible Cuban medical professionals, and their immediate family, to come to the United States.
“I’m proud to join Senator Menendez in introducing this important bill, which highlights how these so-called missions violate the human rights of Cuban medical professionals and also re-establishes the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program suspended by the Obama Administration,” Rubio said. “Through the diplomatic scam of foreign ‘medical missions’, the Cuban regime has perfected the art of state-sponsored human exploitation while illegally enriching themselves. The U.S. must stand in support of the Cuban medical professionals who are subjected to deplorable working conditions, confiscation of their legal forms of identification, and significantly reduced compensation.”
“Cuba’s medical missions abroad are not humanitarian, but in fact a calculated, coercive money-making scheme by a regime relying on indentured servitude to fill its coffers,” Menendez said. “The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us all of the selfless sacrifices and the global need for frontline workers, particularly doctors and nurses. But we all must recognize that garnishing the wages of Cuban medical professionals, withholding their passports, retaliating against their family members, and subjecting them to other forms of coercion represents nothing less than state-sponsored human trafficking. We are introducing this legislation out of a bipartisan commitment to hold the Cuban regime accountable for these abuses and offer protection to its victims here in the United States.”
Key elements of the legislation include:
- Requires a new State Department annual report documenting conditions in each country where Cuba has deployed foreign medical missions, including a determination as to whether such conditions qualify as severe forms of trafficking in persons per the Trafficking Victims
- Re-establishes the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program that ended in January 2017, in order to allow eligible Cuban medical professionals, and their immediate family, to come to the United States.
- Expresses the sense of Congress that Cuban medical professionals are subjected to state-sponsored human trafficking and calls for Cuban medical personnel to be fully compensated for their work.
- Recognizes evidence that the Cuban regime’s deployment of Cuban doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as through the Mais Médicos program in Brazil between 2013 and 2018, constitute human trafficking, and documents concerns by the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery and the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons.
- Requires the Departments of State and Health and Human Services to implement a balanced approach to address the Pan American Health Organization’s role in the Mais Médicos program—mandating transparency and accountability, preventing future support for Cuban medical missions, and ensuring PAHO has necessary funding to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and other health needs in the region.
Rubio is the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues.
RUBIO Y MENÉNDEZ PRESENTAN NUEVO PROYECTO DE LEY PARA COMBATIR LA TRATA DE MÉDICOS CUBANOS
Legislación bipartidista fortalece la responsabilidad por el esquema de trata de personas del régimen cubano y apoya a los cubanos profesionales de la salud que prestan servicios en el extranjero
Washington, D.C. — Los senadores estadounidenses Marco Rubio (R-FL) y Bob Menendez (D-NJ), miembro de Más Alto Rango del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del senado, introdujeron la ley para Combatir la Trata de Médicos cubanos. Este nuevo proyecto de ley busca fortalecer la rendición de cuentas por la trata de personas del régimen cubano y la explotación de médicos, enfermeras y otros cubanos que son profesionales de la salud a través de las tildadas ‘misiones médicas’ al extranjero. La legislación reafirma el compromiso de EE.UU. de defender los valores democráticos y los derechos humanos en Cuba. La ley también restablece el Programa de Libertad Condicional para los Médicos Profesionales, suspendida bajo la administración del Presidente Barack Obama para permitir que los médicos cubanos elegibles y sus familiares directos vengan a los Estados Unidos.
“Me enorgullece unirme al senador Menéndez para presentar este importante proyecto de ley, el cual destaca cómo las llamadas ‘misiones médicas’ al extranjero violan los derechos humanos de los médicos cubanos y también restablece el Programa de Libertad Condicional para los Médicos Profesionales suspendido por la administración del ex-presidente Obama”, Rubio dijo. “A través de las ‘misiones médicas’ al extranjero, que son una estafa diplomática, el régimen cubano ha perfeccionado el arte de la explotación humana patrocinada por el estado mientras se enriquecen ilegalmente. EE.UU. debe respaldar a los profesionales de la salud de Cuba que están sujetos a condiciones de trabajo deplorables, a confiscación de sus documentos legales de identidad y una remuneración reducida”.
Elementos claves de la legislación:
• Requiere un nuevo informe anual por parte del Departamento de Estado, el cual documente las condiciones en cada país donde Cuba ha desplegado ‘misiones médicas’ al extranjero. Incluyendo una determinación sobre si tales condiciones califican como formas graves de trata de personas según las víctimas.
• Restablece el Programa de Libertad Condicional para Programa de Libertad Condicional para los Médicos Profesionales que finalizó en enero del 2017, a fin de permitir que los cubanos profesionales de la salud que son elegibles y su familia inmediata vengan a los Estados Unidos.
• Expresa que los cubanos profesionales de la salud están sujetos a la trata de personas patrocinada por el estado y pide que el personal médico cubano sea totalmente compensado por su trabajo.
• Reconoce la evidencia que el despliegue de médicos cubanos por parte del régimen cubano durante la pandemia del COVID-19, así como a través del programa Mais Médicos en Brasil entre el 2013 y 2018, constituyen trata de personas y documenta las preocupaciones del Relator Especial de la ONU sobre las formas contemporáneas de esclavitud y la trata de personas.
• Requiere que tanto los Departamentos de Estado y de Salud como el Departamento de Servicios Humanos implementen un enfoque equilibrado para abordar el rol de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud en el programa Mais Médicos, exigiendo transparencia y rendición de cuentas, evitando el apoyo futuro a las misiones médicas cubanas y asegurando que la OPS tenga los fondos necesarios para responder a la pandemia del COVID-19 y otras necesidades de salud en la región.
Rubio es el Presidente del Subcomité de Relaciones Exteriores para el Hemisferio Occidental, Delincuencia Transnacional, Seguridad Civil, Democracia, Derechos Humanos y Asuntos Globales de la Mujer.