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VenEconomy:
The true face of the “revolution”
This Friday, February 19, seven Cuban doctors and a male nurse who sought asylum in the United States filed a lawsuit before the Federal Court in Miami against Petróleos de Venezuela and the governments of Cuba and Venezuela.
According to the news agency EFE, the lawsuit is based on the allegation that the defendants “intentionally and arbitrarily” put these professionals into “servitude for debt” and that they turned the plaintiffs into “economic slaves” and political promoters.
The lawsuit seeks indemnity of more than $50 million and also to set a precedent with regard to the patrimonial responsibility of states for their citizens.
Apart from making the headlines at home and abroad, this lawsuit reveals is the true face of Cuba’s ancient communist regime and of Hugo Chávez’s “21st century revolution.”
It illustrates a number of aspects that people have been denouncing for years and proves that the violation of human rights commented on in both dictatorships is even worse than many thought.
Among other things, it confirms that the barter of 100,000 b/d of Venezuelan oil for Cuban professional services in health, education, and sports training, and consultancy in a thousand and one sensitive areas of the country is a mammoth trumped-up story where the only winners are the top men in both regimes and corruption. While Venezuela gives its oil away to maintain the Castro dictatorship, Cuba sends its citizens to do forced labor in order to promote the totalitarianism that Hugo Chávez seeks to impose.
Another thing this lawsuit confirms is the entire false structure holding up the Castro-Chavista dictatorships.
The plaintiffs tell that, besides the murders, violations, persecutions, forced labor, intimidation, and coercion to which the Cuban doctors are subjected in Venezuela, they are also forced to manipulate and inflate patient figures to pretty up the face of Chávez’s “revolution.”
They tell of unlicensed doctors practicing medicine, so putting at risk the lives of millions of Venezuelans who go to Barrio Adentro. And they tell how this foreign contingent has been introduced into the country’s poor neighborhoods, mostly to infiltrate those who dissent from the regime in order to indoctrinate them and even to put pressure on them when it comes to them exercising their right to vote, confirming the numerous reports of this practice in the past.
Behind their Good Samaritan facade, the dictatorships of Fidel and Chávez hide mendacity and the outrage of domination. The result is two peoples subjugated to barbarism, servitude, and abject poverty and condemned to backwardness and to live in slavery, supposedly abolished in Venezuela in the times of José Tadeo Monagas.
VenEconomy has been a Venezuela's leading specialized publisher on financial, political and economic data since 1982. VenEconomy's Points of View on the issues of the day, as seen by VenEconomy during the last week. Petroleumworld does not necessarily share these views.
Editor's Note: This commentary was originally published by VeneEconomy on 02/23/2010. Petroleumworld reprint this article in the interest of our readers .
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