The American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced on Wednesday that Trump management revoked visas from employees from Cuba and other countries, including former member of the Ministry of Health of former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), due to the sending of Cuban doctors to work in other nations.
“The United States are expanding its visa restriction policy to Cuba. The State Department has taken steps to restrict the issuance of visas to Cuban government officials and third partner countries, as well as individuals responsible for the exploratory export of Cuban labor.
In a post published then, the secretary mentioned that Brazilians had seen revoked.
“The State Department is also taking steps to revoke visas and impose visa restrictions on several Brazilian government officials and former PAINA [Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde] Accomplices of the forced labor export scheme of the Cuban regime. More doctors was an inconceivable diplomatic coup of foreign ‘medical missions, ”said Rubio.
In a statement, the State Department reported that among the sanctioned are Mozart Julio Tabosa Sales and Alberto Kleiman.
“As part of the More Doctors in Brazil program, these authorities used PAHO as an intermediary with Cuban dictatorship to implement the program without following Brazilian constitutional requirements, dribbling Cuban sanctions and, consciously, paying to the Cuban health professionals. Dozens of Cuban doctors who worked in the program reported to have been exploited by the Cuban regime,” he said to part of the program, ”he said to part of the program,” he said to part of the program, ”he said to part of the program,” he said to part of the program. ” folder.
“The department revoked the visas of Mozart Júlio Tabosa Sales and Alberto Kleiman, who worked at the Brazilian Ministry of Health during the Mais Médicos program and played a role in planning and implementing the program. Our action sends an unambiguous message that the United States promote the responsibility of those that allow the forced work export scheme of the Cuban regime,” the State Department added.
Sales is secretary of specialized health care of the Ministry of Health and in the Dilma government was chief of staff and national secretary of the Secretariat of Labor Management and Health Education.
Already Kleiman was director of the Department of International Relations of the Ministry of Health in Dilma Management and today is General Coordinator of the Lula government for COP30.
A Gazeta do Povo He requested positioning from Sales and Kleiman with the press office of the Ministry of Health and COP30, but has not yet obtained return. This text will be updated if there is an answer.
