El Salvador

Executive summary

Cuba's medical mission to El Salvador, spanning San Vicente, Cuscatlán, Cabañas, and La Paz since 2018, has become inactive, with zero personnel currently deployed after Cuban authorities withdrew doctors in April 2019 amid allegations of unlicensed surgical practice. Official salary figures reportedly diverge sharply from actual earnings, as personnel were documented as being obligated to alter medical statistics, suggesting systematic manipulation of reported data. Labour rights violations are corroborated through UN condemnations and testimonies, including subordination to Cuban legal frameworks like Decree 306 and Resolution 368, which restrict autonomy and impose punitive conditions. Personnel were also documented as obligated to participate in political actions within the host country. Behind the humanitarian façade of "Operación Milagro" lay a system of coerced labor. The numbers told one story; the testimonies tell another.

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