PNP 'Gravely Concerned' About Gov't Silence As US Takes Aim At Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

PNP ‘Gravely Concerned’ About Gov’t Silence As US Takes Aim At Cuba - Party Wants Administration To Issue Statement Condemning Bill Targeting Medical Missions

Published:Friday | June 26, 2020 | 12:14 AM



The People’s National Party said it is “gravely concerned” that the Government has not yet made a statement on the attempt by the United States to introduce legislation targeting countries that hire Cuban healthcare workers through medical missions.

For decades, the health capacities in Jamaica and other Caribbean countries have been bolstered by Cuban professionals.

Republican Senator Rick Scott led the introduction of the Cut Profits to the Cuban Regime Act last Wednesday in the US Senate.

The bill will seek to classify the humanitarian engagements by Cuba as a form of human trafficking and has the potential to be a factor when ranking countries in its annual Trafficking in Persons report.

“The Cuban people have always stood with the people of Jamaica in challenging times, from the 1970s through to today’s COVID-19 pandemic crisis, when over 140 medical professionals arrived from Cuba to bolster our country’s response to the outbreak of COVID-19,” said Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Morais Guy.

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[Brainfodder]

1. Has Susan Collins heard about this?

[NurseJackie]

7. She'll be concerned, I'm sure.

[ancianita]

2. Medical missions are the most heartfelt means by which Cuba shows its solidarity

with oppressed classes in the world. We should be so lucky as to receive a Cuban medical mission. Now they have reciprocal help, and THIS is what the former FL governor does to the home country of Florida's Cubans??

Criminalizing our neighbors has been the US's moral failing and political evil since way before the Monroe Doctrine.

What disgusting black hearted hate these bill conconctors must harbor.

[iscooterliberally]

3. I hope that when future President Biden runs investigations...

...I hope he finds good reason to remove Rick Scott from the senate long before 2024. We can’t get rid of this guy fast enough. He is the ‘confused puppet of the Trump administration’.

[The Magistrate]

4. This Is Simply Insane, Ma'am

"The bill will seek to classify the humanitarian engagements by Cuba as a form of human trafficking and has the potential to be a factor when ranking countries in its annual Trafficking in Persons report."

Nor is it necessary to be any particular friend of the present government of Cuba to recognize that.

[csziggy]

9. This will allow other countries to classify "humanitarian engagements" as trafficking

For instance, when my niece works as a relief worker for international non-governmental organizations in say, Afghanistan or Bangladesh, she could be considered a "trafficked" person and "rescued" by the totalitarian government that is oppressing the people she is there to help. The implications of this are terrifying.

I agree with you, sir, this is simply insane.

[rickyhall]

5. WTF! I thought we liked dictatorships. Oh, that's right, just Fascist Dictatorships.

I don't like Rick Snot, he's just another Tom Cotton. It's like, who's the uglier twin?

[Igel]

11. Some dictatorships are special and more acceptable.

That's sort of a problem. Well, depending.

Which is the problem to start with.


Was reading something a few days ago and it talked about how wonderful the person was, politically sensitive. A member of the US Community Party, how much more progressive can you get? Back in the late '30s, when it was uncool.

Back when the CP USA stood firmly in support of and solidarity with Stalin. But what I read didn't call him Stalinist. That would have been double plus uncool. Couldn't decide if the reporter was merely stupid, if he was pandering, or if he wasn't so much a useful as a useless idiot.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Yes. Let's outlaw humanitarian actions all together. Then the GOP will be happy.

[Ramsey Barner]

8. It's now at the point where the U.S. needs Cuban humanitarian assistance.

[geretogo]

10. The GOP loves the communists in China but hates the socialists in Cuba . The GOP is a cancer on this

country . They need to flushed out of power in America .

[left-of-center2012]

12. This ...

"For over 40 years, Jamaica has been benefiting from the assistance of Cuban healthcare workers,
and we cannot remain silent or be bullied into adopting the political agenda of another country (the U.S.),”
said Shadow Minister of Health Dr Morais Guy M.P..