On Wednesday (13), through his social networks, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced that he will revoke the visas of members of the Brazilian government and former employees of the Pan American Health Organization. He stated that the measures were applied to “Cuban’s forced work export scheme”, through the Mais Médicos program.
In addition, it is also taking steps to revoke visas and impose restrictions on several Brazilian government officials and former PAHO employees, accomplices of the Cuban regime’s forced labor export scheme. More doctors was an inconceivable diplomatic coup of foreign “medical missions”.
According to reporter Túlio Amâncio, the State Department has already revoked the visas of Mozart Julio Tabosa Sales and Alberto Kleiman (General Coordinator of COP30), former Ministry of Health members during the program. Rubio classified the most doctors as an “inconceivable diplomatic coup” promoted under the disguise of international medical missions.
Federal Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, through social networks, warned those involved in the case:
“The measure is also an unmistakable message: neither ministers, nor bureaucrats of the lower levels, nor their families are immune. Sooner or later, all who contribute to support these regimes will answer for what they have done – and there will be no place to hide.”
Rubio had already announced in February 2025 the expansion of visa sanctions, now including Cuban authorities and other countries involved in the export of Cuban medical labor. According to him, these missions are forms of exploitation and represent cases of forced labor.
The secretary also pointed out that these programs financially benefit the Cuban regime, while leaving the local population without proper access to basic medical services.
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