Bhutan

Executive summary

Cuba's medical mission to Bhutan began on 28 October 2013 under the Compensated Technical Assistance modality, deploying 17 health workers across six provinces until its conclusion in 2015, with no subsequent renewal despite Bhutan's request for a new contingent. Official figures from the UCCM Yearbook remain consistent across sources, showing no evident discrepancy or inflation. While no mission-specific abuses are itemized, the profile situates this deployment within Cuba's broader documented pattern of labour rights violations—including passport retention, movement restrictions, and forced repatriations—codified through instruments like Resolution 368/2020 and Decree 306/2012. No political mobilization or propaganda activity is documented for this specific mission. Behind the diplomatic language of "cooperation" lies an unexamined system of state-controlled labour. Seventeen names, absorbed into a machinery whose contracts were never their own.

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