Carlos Giménez demands tariffs «of maximum pressure» against countries that exploit Cuban doctors

Cuban -American congressman Carlos Giménez requested on Monday in a letter sent to the US Secretary of State Rubio that «maximum pressure» tariffs are applied to countries that traffic with the slave labor of Cuban doctors.

«I am asking the Trump administration to apply tariffs of maximum pressure to every country that is trafficked Cuban doctors and paying the dictatorship of Cuba for the forced labor that force them to make these modern slaves,» Giménez wrote in a post in X that closed with the #Patriayvida label.

«I write to congratulate him for his policy of imposing visa restrictions on foreign leaders and individuals who exploit Cuban labor, and to urge him to impose severe economic sanctions on the countries that participate in the trafficking of modern slaves, exemplified by the traffic of doctors and professionals of Cuban health by the murderous dictatorship of Havana,» Giménez told the secretary Rubio in the Missive Secretary.

The legislator stressed that the so -called medical missions with which the regime of Havana has sent thousands of doctors and health workers abroad «have long been the most grotesque example of human trafficking and modern slavery in our hemisphere.»

According to Giménez, «these medical missions claim to provide medical services, but in reality they are a perverse mechanism through which the Cuban regime exploits its own citizens, in conditions of slavery, to obtain economic profits.»

The congressman described the working conditions of exploitation faced by the workers sent to these missions, and that include long days, salaries seized and restriction of movement, while the Cuban regime remains with the vast majority of the funds that the receiving countries pay for their services.

«He entertains him to take immediate measures, collaborating with Trump administration officials to impose additional financial sanctions to countries that continue to collaborate with the Cuban dictatorship in these forms of exploiting medical missions,» Giménez asked in the letter.

The republican legislator said that these countries are accomplices of a regime that practices slavery and asked the Trump administration to apply severe measures against them to stop this practice.

«I understand that some countries face challenges in medical care; the nations that already host these professionals must pay directly to Cuban health workers – not the regime of Havana, who seizes their salaries and forces them to live in inhuman conditions – or, otherwise, they will face the total weight of US tariffs and sanctions,» he explained in the letter.

Giménez said that, by applying specific financial sanctions, the United States will send a clear message to these nations that human exploitation will not be tolerated. This action, he said, will not only protect the dignity and rights of persons subject to these conditions, but will strengthen US’s commitment to human rights and ethical governance worldwide.

Last week, Giménez requested in a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, suspend trips and remittances to the island, with the exception of some humanitarian cases.

In an exclusive with the Fox News news chain, the only American congressman born in Cuba stressed the need to «economically drown» to the Cuban regime to achieve a real change in the country, and said that one of the most effective ways to do so is through economic sanctions.

At the end of March, during a tour of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Rubio Secretary of State denounced that, in many countries, Cuban doctors are not paid for the work they do. «The Cuban government is paid; the Cuban government decides how much (…) give them; they withdraw their passports; basically, they operate as forced labor in many places.»

This Monday, the Office of Affairs of the Western Hemisphere of the State Department published a post in X in which it denounces these conditions of slave labor to which health workers are subjected to the Cuban medical missions.

«The medical missions of Cuba are not humanitarian assistance: the program is exploiting and presents strong indications of forced labor. The Cuban regime confisca up to 95 % of workers’ salaries, restricts their movements, and threatens those who try to leave,» says the post.