The State Department on Wednesday announced it was revoking U.S. visas for certain Brazilian officials, their families, and former Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) officials tied to the Cuban government’s labor export scheme.
The labor scheme exploited Cuban medical workers through forced labor to the benefit of the Cuban regime, and deprived regular Cuban citizens of access to critical medical care.
The department specifically named Mozart Julio Tabosa Sales and Alberto Kleiman, who worked in Brazil’s Ministry of Health during the controversial Mais Médicos program, which started in 2013.
“As part of Brazil’s Mais Médicos program, these officials used PAHO as an intermediary with the Cuban dictatorship to implement the program without following Brazilian constitutional requirements, dodging U.S. sanctions on Cuba, and knowingly paying the Cuban regime what was owed to Cuban medical workers,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
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