Sweden

Executive summary

Sweden's engagement with Cuban medical missions traces back to a 1966 teaching brigade, with the mission now classified as inactive and zero active personnel currently recorded, governed loosely by the 2016 EU-Cuba Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement, which contains no explicit medical cooperation clause. No historical cumulative participant data exists, precluding comparison between official and independent statistics or verification of potential inflation. While no direct evidence of labour rights abuses within Sweden itself is documented, the profile references systemic violations under Cuban law—including Resolution 368/2020, Penal Code Article 176, and Migration Law provisions—governing missions generally. No political mobilization or propaganda activity tied to Sweden is documented. Even where the mission has ended, the legal architecture of coercion persists elsewhere. Absence of data is not absence of exploitation.

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Research profile