Martinique

Executive summary

The Cuban medical mission in Martinica began on 26 June 2020, when a 15-member Henry Reeve Brigade arrived under decree 2020-377 to serve at Fort-de-France's Centro Hospitalario Universitario and Clínica Saint-Paul; the mission concluded on 9 October 2020 after its three-month term, remaining inactive since, despite a five-year framework agreement. No statistical discrepancies emerge, though financial asymmetry is documented: Martinica paid €6,700 monthly per doctor while collaborators received only €700. Labour rights violations are evidenced through Cuba's own legal framework—Decree 306, Resolution 168, and migration restrictions governing personnel. No electoral mobilisation is documented, though diplomatic propaganda persists via proposed long-term projects. Doctors who healed for others earned barely a tenth of what their labour generated. Even after criticism and failure, Havana kept pressing new "cooperation" offers.

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