provide health care in brazil the target of the lawsuit an organization affiliated with the united nations called pot of every dollar that brazil pays for their services follow the pan american health organization since eighty percent of that money back to cuba the doctors get less than ten percent in the pan american health organization itself keeps five percent of that money from brazil is the feed. the norah he wrote that first piece that i showed on my laptop here from the miami herald talked to us about this lawsuit why is this program so controversial. well i mean this four doctors are still in open house or pa in english their primary and health organization which is an un agency because they believe that they're going to say shin traffic at any human labor and benefited from who or what they deem is in a scheme of force labeled the problem is and this is the most controversial issue here is. according to official documents the receive the government was paying four thousand dollars to the cuban government for each doctor's but from dad the doctors would only get our one thousand dollars but then they even get the complete amount they will get a part in brazil an empl

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colleagues brazil pays cuba around three thousand one hundred dollars a month through the pan american health organization for each doctor the doctors themselves receive only about a quarter of that the rest goes back to the cuban government. blamed the collapse of the program on the cuban government's intransigence tweeting we condition the continuation of the program doctors on the completion of skill tests full salary payments to cuban doctors much of which now goes to the dictatorship and the possibility for doctors to reunite with their families unfortunately cuba refused. so what does cuba's exit from the more doctor's program mean for brazil and for cuba and joining me today from sao paulo to discuss this is probably know about g. he's a doctor who served as an advisor to cuban doctors working in indigenous regions of brazil are today lopez levy is an assistant professor of political science at both of us as elsie college he's also consults with the interim american dialogue on matters of cuban policy he joins us from st peter minnesota louise psyche me is a primary health care research coordinator

investigation showed how the cuban government exploded the brazilian government and pan-american health organizationand i have serious questions as to whether their participation constituted and involvement in forced labor and human trafficking. this is just the latest example of cuba's ongoing effort to exploit local dynamics and export its agenda across the americas. everyone in this room knows that nowhere in our hemisphere has cuba cause more catastrophe than in venezuela. for nearly two decades, the cuban regime has benefited from a parasitic regime, exported its tactics, and ruined a -- and created a strategy for economic collapse. earlier this year, havana was described as keeping allies in power by implanting cuban police state techniques by "constant ,ut selective repression extortion, bribery, espionage, and persecution." this doesn't cover the totality of the regime's efforts. evidence was presented about the increasingly systemic use of torture in venezuela. cuban officials were present in a dozen cases. while horrifying, i can't say i am surprised. beyond cuba's role in venezuela, cabin