Message from Cuban doctors in exile to Marco Rubio and Bob Menéndez: "We really need your help"
- Solidaridad Sin Fronteras
- 24 abr 2020
- 3 Min. de lectura
A group of Cuban doctors who decided to "be free" and who are stranded in several Latin American countries have written an emotional letter to Cuban-American senators Bob Menéndez and Marco Rubio to support the initiative that both politicians presented on January 10 in the United States Senate to restore the Cuban Medical Professionals Parole, which Obama removed. It is a refuge program for Cuban doctors who are escaping from Cuban government missions abroad. "We really need your help".
As explained by the doctors in the letter to which CiberCuba has had access, they have decided to organize themselves in the WhatsApp group "Solidarity without borders" to try to "raise their voices" and inform them of their situation: "The one that we have and are going through in these moments. "
The doctors signing the letter assure that all those who are part of this group worked for the Cuban State in precarious conditions, of overcrowding, poor remuneration; "with lack of resources" and forced to carry out senseless orders and accept punishments for thinking differently from the "psychoterror" of the Government of Havana.
"Every health professional who arrives in a new country does so in fear of losing his life. Every day he prays and gives thanks for having survived one more day in hell." They also add that those who were working in Venezuela felt "imminent fear of death."
"Every health professional who arrives in a new country does so in fear of losing his life. Every day he prays and gives thanks for having survived one more day in hell." They also explain that they have been forced to deviate from merely attending to patients to give them political talks. "We are obliged to divert professional medical consultation towards educational policy talks, in order to win votes in favor of" Socialism ". They also assure that they have come to tell them that in the event of armed conflict, they must "participate in the armed struggle" by transforming their stethoscopes into rifles.
All these reasons should suffice to aspire to be free Cubans, they affirm in their letter. "We are called deserters, traitors, worms. We are exiles from our country and we cannot return because the consequences would be catastrophic," they insist. The doctors say that the vast majority of Cuban professionals who decided not to return to Cuba do not have permanent jobs and cover hourly shifts, poorly paid; facing arrests and scams. They don't have work permits and when they get sick they ask their colleagues for help.
We become doctors of ourselves. For the rest of the world we are builders, waiters, merchants, bowlers, farmers, with great respect for these professions, but unlike nationals, we are exposed to another system of exploitation such as the more than 16 hours of work, xenophobia, no provision of medical services, wages of 6 to 8 dollars a day, where it is impossible for us to support an income and at the same time feed ourselves. " Doctors consider that they left one type of farm to enter another. That is why many have chosen to cross the jungle and risk their lives and have ended up being deported to Cuba, but the Island has refused to receive them. Therefore, his only hope is Senators Marco Rubio, Bob Menéndez and the United States Government. "We know that they are fighting hard to help us, to give us the opportunity to be free people, to be useful to a society where human rights are respected, where we can work with dignity and with our own efforts. We say NO to exploitation, NO to human trafficking, NO to socialism. We do NOT regret being here. We do NOT want to return to the Cuban dictatorship. "
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