30,000 Cuban doctors currently active in 67 countries - many in Latin America and Africa, but also European nations including Portugal and Italy
@kravietz what a ‘surprise’ that the ‘great’ British propaganda organisation has a negative Cuba story. Just literally, what we’re the fucking odds? Don’t believe the BBC narrative. They’ve done more to undermine positive steps from Corbyn for a social safety-net and a NHS that’s funded properly. All crap, fake partisan reporting 💩
Or just arguing because someone dared to say people in Cuba are exploited?
@kravietz as if. I’m well read. The timing of this is enough to make anyone suspicious of the provenance of these assertions
The truth is that all the current "communist" regimes are doing the same thing - outsourcing their citizens in other countries to get some dollars to continue supplying the elites with goods, while keeping regular people at bare survival level.
North Korea sells their workers to Russia to work on construction sites, Cuba sells their doctors. The country keeps most of the worker's salary and keeps them under guard to prevent defection.
How is that different from slavery?
@kravietz your critique of modern slavery in the wealthiest economies of the world is missing. Why?
So what you're saying is essentially, when I criticise a socialist country, I should always also point out the evils of neocons capitalism? Is that what you're asking for?
Then how abou thist: yesterday I just posted about a teenager who was denied healthcare in the US and died.
So I guess, by your guidelines, I should also add a paragraph about how screwed healthcare was in socialist countries? You know, to be objective.
Or does it only work one way?
@kravietz all of these nations you mention are under economic and political assault by Uncle Sam. Many are left with little choice. It isn’t Fidel’s fault there’s no fuel in Cuba. It’s the USA that’s to blame
"Little choice" that makes them... to do what exactly and how that's related to sanctions?
How exactly is USA to blame if Cuba is buying fuel from Venezuela, Argentina and Algeria (at least)?
And regarding US sanctions themselves, can you trace them back to any particular events in the history of Cuba that triggered them?
@CyberSocialist Regarding international sanctions against USSR, did you possibly note the values and objectives that were at the very core of Soviet ideology?
*World* revolution? Abolishing of capitalism *in the West*? Soviet *westward* offensive of 1918-1920? Amtorg Trading Corporation? Comintern? Assassination of Georgi Markov and other dissidents living *in the West*?
Still no idea why those to be "abolished" might not want to trade with USSR?
@kravietz your critique of the ills of socialism.