Guinea

Executive summary

Cuba's medical mission to Guinea Conakry, operating under the Programa Integral de Salud since 2005, remains active in 2026, having evolved through Ebola response (2014-2015) and COVID-19 deployment (2020), with personnel fluctuating between 14 and 79 across the years. Cumulative figures citing 2,000 collaborators lack independent corroboration, raising questions about verification standards. Documented labour violations include restrictions under Cuba's Reglamento 168, passport-related migratory controls under Decreto 306, forced wage "donations" for domestic disasters, and contractual subjugation under Resolución 368 and the Código Penal. No explicit electoral mobilisation is recorded, though the mission's political utility as diplomatic currency is implicit. Behind the statistics of solidarity lies a workforce bound by law, not choice. Each brigade rotation conceals a system engineered for control, not care.

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