India

Executive summary

Cuba's medical-teaching presence in India traces back to a 1966 docent brigade, with cooperation renewed through a 1999 bilateral protocol and formalised via a 2017 Memorandum of Understanding, later expanded into traditional medicine, homeopathy, and biotechnology; the mission is now officially inactive, with zero active personnel and no brigade deployed during the Covid-19 pandemic. No independent statistics exist to corroborate or contest official figures, as historical participant totals remain entirely undocumented. Nonetheless, labour rights violations are presumed under Cuba's standard export-of-professionals framework, referencing Resolution 368/2020, Penal Code Article 176, Migration Law provisions, and Decree 306/2012. No independent verification exists—only silence where data should be. Absence of records is itself a form of erasure.

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