Pakistan

Executive summary

The Cuban medical mission to Pakistan deployed on 14 October 2005 following the devastating earthquake, comprising 2,564 health workers across 32 field hospitals, and concluded after seven months with final withdrawal on 25 May 2006; the mission remains inactive with zero personnel currently deployed. No discrepancies emerge between official figures and independent sources for this specific deployment. However, the broader Henry Reeve contingent framework is documented as operating under coercive conditions, including Cuba's Resolution 368/2020, Penal Code article 176, and Migration Law provisions restricting movement—mechanisms characteristic of forced labor arrangements. These workers, hailed abroad as humanitarian heroes, returned home bound by an ethical code designed not to protect them, but to control them.

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