Inactivesince 1992
Costa Rica
Compensated Technical Assistance
Executive summary
Cuba's medical presence in Costa Rica dates to a 1992 teaching brigade, followed by a 2005 radiotherapy contingent under the CCSS, and formalized through a 2013 Framework Cooperation Agreement, ratified in 2014; the mission is now inactive, with zero active personnel, though its legal framework was invoked unsuccessfully in 2021 amid COVID-19 pressures. No historical participant totals are documented, preventing verification against independent sources, though the absence of figures itself suggests opacity rather than transparency. No specific labour rights violations are detailed for this country profile, though the mission falls under Cuba's broader forced-labour framework, including Resolution 368/2020, Penal Code Article 176, and Decree 306/2012. A 2021 push by ex-legislators to revive dormant cooperation for pandemic relief reveals how dormant agreements can be reactivated as political leverage. The silence in the data speaks as loudly as the numbers themselves.
Mission data
Research profile