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 āsurpriseā that the āgreatā British propaganda organisation has a negative Cuba story. Just literally, what weāre the fucking odds? Donāt believe the BBC narrative. Theyāve done more to undermine positive steps from Corbyn for a social safety-net and a NHS thatās funded properly. All crap, fake partisan reporting š©
Or just arguing because someone dared to say people in Cuba are exploited?
@kravietz as if. Iām well read. The timing of this is enough to make anyone suspicious of the provenance of these assertions
If you have just a little bit of self-respect, how can you support a regime whose whole economic model is based on *preventing its own citizens from leaving the country?*
Maybe I'm a bit more sensitive to such oppression because I was born in country that operated just on this principle... When you are not free to leave you country you are nothing more than property of the state - and I wish Western leftists admitted that eventually.
@kravietz Moderate Rebels covered this: the US is asking countries to refuse help from Cuban doctors asking them to recognise them as human trafficking victims. This is mainstream media cooperation with a deeply racist neoliberal State department. Pretending that ābecause you can leaveā you are āFreeā is a nonsense; go anywhere you like and youāre debt with follow you.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque
Can you explain how in your understanding a ban on leaving your country - as NK, Cuba and USSR did - has anything to do with social justice? How do you explain & justify this? You call yourself a socialist - is forcibly keeping people in a country part of your socialism?
I'm genuinely interested. I've read a lot of justifications for why there's nothing wrong with living at $20/month in 70's Poland from people like JP Sartre living in $2000/pm France.
> Actual wage levels per hour are not the issue
I can see they're certainly not a problem *for you* so I was just wondering how long have you been living in Cuba or North Korea or communist Poland exactly?