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.
@kravietz youāre applying a ahistorical analysis to a country thatās been under an illegal and immoral blockade for the last 60 years. Actual wage levels per hour are not the issue. Neoliberalism doesnāt have the answer to climate destruction.
@CyberSocialist And while wages were like 100x less than in the West, food prices weren't so much different.
For an average salary today in Poland you can buy say ~7000 eggs or 300 kg of butter (just to compare purchasing power). Back in 80's for an average salary you could buy 700 eggs or just 16 kg of butter, if you were able to find them in official shops. If not, you'd need to buy on black market, add extra 150% price margin.
