10:04--> What what you put up there is um something from, I think it's called 'the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. That is not a serious organization. That's a cutout. They have, to my knowledge, not once had anything published in peer review. They are financed by the U.S. taxpayer. And just to put this in broader context, there is a federally funded disinformation campaign against Cuba financed to the tune every year or at least this year of $52 million a year. Quite a lot with $52 million. You know,the Cuban government doesn't have $52 million to be able to counteract that disinformation.
And most mainstream media basically have been colonized, actually, by that, by those talking points. So you can read in El Pais, extending a little bit beyond the doctor's thing, but you know that there's all these, yeah exactly, that Spain's newspaper reference, right, so a major Rubio talking point is that, you know, after North Korea, Cuba is the major military ally of Putin in Ukraine. And it's true – because a lot of this information is rooted in truth – it's true that there's a lot of Cuban poor devils, mercenaries, that have gone because they want, because, like, their life's so terrible as they see it, there's thousands, I think hundreds, possibly thousands, that have gone to Ukraine to fight for Russia. But what's not true is that, or at least there's no evidence, that the Cuban government is facilitating it or earning. It is just repeating what former CIA people have referred to as 'regime change industry talking points'. That's one.
Another one is the hotels, right. So there's hotel kick [?] Cuba bet on hotels there's a lot of, like, kind of ugly hotels that have gone up here, and because of the sanctions, because of the pandemic, and because of very cynical Biden era policies that tell Europeans, 'if you go to Cuba you cannot easily come to the United States', tourism's collapsed. And so, but you, so you've got this kind of, like, reality created by US economic warfare. And then on another layer, they say, 'Oh, but the military' – because the military's built a lot of the hotels – 'the military is just robbing
the money, there's billions that they're robbing they're just sitting on'. There's no information to sustain it, and it's paid for by the US taxpayer. And in the terms of the medical missions, the main motor of the of the Cuban economy – more than even tourism, even in the good times – was the leasing of professional services. Most of that is medical services. And so it just makes sense, if you're John Bolton, if you're Marco Rubio, if you're Marisio Clavaron and your quest is to demolish the Cuban economy, well, then you're going to take aim at the main, like, earner, aren't you? And that's what they've done with the medical missions.
And so what we can see is that this year, I think six or seven have been closed down in the Caribbean and Central American countries. And they've done that by diplomatic arm twisting, threatening countries that if that they have to kick the Cubans out or else. And that will kill people, right? Those people, those doctors are not going to be replaced as much as they say that, the U.S. No way.
And that diplomatic coercion is complemented – to use an ugly word by this propaganda campaign – that they're slaves. And so this is financed by many many hundreds of thousands or millions a year. No one should take it seriously because there's no evidence offered. But yet, the media
in the US, basically NATO countries, has been taken in hook, line, and sinker by it. And it's very concerning that a propaganda operation like that, it's kind of clunky, you know, like there's actually no evidence. When you speak to the doctors, they're, like,"Yeah, we want to go. We want to go because we earn wages, but we want to go."
Just the notion that can kind of take off in the in the media is just really kind of worrying and a fundamental dereliction of duty. So no, Cuban doctors are not slaves. They're not victims of human trafficking. This is a big disinformation effort and it should be treated with the utmost criticism.
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