Vanuatu

Executive summary

Cuba's medical mission to Vanuatu began in 2008 under a bilateral Convenio de Colaboración, part of the broader Programa Integral de Salud, and gradually declined from five sanitarios to a single physician before ending in 2019, with no reactivation recorded through 2024. No independent-versus-official statistical discrepancies are documented here, though the modest "acumulado histórico" of 25 participants across twelve years suggests limited scale rather than inflation. Labour rights concerns are evidenced through Cuba's own legal framework—Resolution 368/2020, Penal Code article 176, and Migration Law provisions restricting movement and enabling forced repatriation. No electoral mobilisation or propaganda activity is documented for this specific mission. "Trabajadores forzosos en misión" is not rhetoric—it is the Code's own designation. A single doctor, alone in Port Vila, standing in for what was once a five-member brigade.

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