Bahrain

Executive summary

The Cuban medical mission in Bahrain began on 5 March 2011 with 71 collaborators contracted through the Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos and the King Hamad University Hospital, later formalized by a 2014 cooperation agreement; it declined progressively—6 personnel by 2018–19, none during 2020–2022—and remains inactive despite reactivation talks in March 2024. Official figures show inconsistencies between contingent sizes reported across years, suggesting selective disclosure rather than transparent accounting. No electoral or diplomatic propaganda activity is documented, but structural labour violations persist under Cuban law—Resolution 368/2020, Decree 306/2012, and Migration Law provisions—enabling wage confiscation and mobility restrictions. Behind clinical cooperation lies a system of state-controlled labour. 148 lives accumulated, zero acknowledged as forced.

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