Liberia

Executive summary

Cuba's medical presence in Liberia dates to 2001, formalized under the 2003 Programa Integral de Salud, then dormant until October 2014, when a 54-member Henry Reeve brigade deployed to combat Ebola, withdrawing by March 2015; by 2019 only one collaborator remained, and the mission is now inactive with zero active personnel. Official figures (55 accumulated participants) appear consistent across sources, showing no clear inflation. However, documented labor violations are substantial: workers remained subject to Reglamento 168, Decreto 306, Resolución 368/2020, and Cuba's Migration Law—mechanisms enabling passport retention, movement restrictions, and forced repatriation. No electoral or propaganda-specific actions are documented for this mission. Behind Ébola's humanitarian narrative lay a labor regime scholars have called forced servitude. Fifty-five names, one silence: no independent audit has verified their working conditions.

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