Libya

Executive summary

Cuba's medical mission to Libya began in 1977–78, deploying 650 sanitarians to rural areas under a Cooperación Compensada model; it is now inactive, with zero personnel currently active, though a memorandum of cooperation was under negotiation as of April 2025. No independent sources are cited to corroborate or contest official figures, leaving accumulated totals undisputed but unverified. Labour rights violations are documented through Cuban legal instruments—Resolution 368/2020, Penal Code article 176, Migration Law article 24.1, and Decree 306/2012—implying restricted mobility and coercive contractual conditions. No electoral mobilisation or overt political propaganda is documented. Six years of service, yet no worker remains to testify. A program suspended, but never formally closed.

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