Cuban MDs sue in US over alleged forced labor

 

So Hollyweird, so how about ole Castro? You think that its so fine living the Marxist Lifestyle.. electric now and then, energy- sometimes? Well, step up and tells us about it.

MIAMI — Seven Cuban doctors and a nurse who claim they were made to work against their will in Venezuela have filed a lawsuit in Miami’s federal court.

The lawsuit seeks at least $60 million for each plaintiff, naming Cuba, Venezuela and Venezuela’s state-run oil company as defendants.

The plaintiffs claim they were forced into servitude and paid low wages to help repay Cuba’s oil-related debts to Venezuela. All are now living in the United States.

A Miami federal judge in 2008 awarded $80 million to three Cubans who claimed they were forced into slave labor at a shipyard on the island of Curacao.

The doctors say that faced with precarious conditions and material needs in Cuba, they were deceived and threatened by Cuban authorities and taken by force to work in violent places in Venezuela, including the jungle and the frontier with Colombia.

The plaintiffs are a part of a mission called “Barrio Adentro.” They say they are held in captivity in crowded lodgings or in houses with families affiliated with the Venezuelan regime. They say they are under strict control, surveillance, and threats by “slave hunters”: Venezuelan security officials.

The plaintiffs say they work under an agreement between the two governments, through Petroleos de Venezuela.

The “Convenio Integral de Cooperacion” allows forced labor by doctors in exchange for 100,000 barrels of oil a day, according to the complaint.

The plaintiffs say they are “living illegally as prisoners” and work without licenses to practice in Venezuela. If they protest, they are returned to Cuba and suffer severe and permanent consequences, they

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/22/1493880/cuban-mds-sue-in-us-over-alleged.html

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/02/seven-cuban-doctors-sue-cuba-venezuela-for-slavery/

GENERATION ZERO

Generation Zero-The Truth About the Financial Meltdown is a documentary that seeks out historical turning points to shows us how we got to the financial mess we’re in.  And it makes some pretty good points.   The foundation for disaster was laid 100 years ago and then put on steroids by FDR.  LBJ greased the skids a bunch more.  And then we had Carter and some new terms to add to the dictionary like ‘stagflation’. Reagan tried to put on the breaks,  but there were just too many Barney Frank types in Congress and too many who put their election ahead of the country.

But make no mistake – Comrade Matrix says this is not a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ issue.  Its an INCUMBENT issue… and something to think about as we move towards a good ‘CLEAN SWEEP’ day in November 2012.

See review: Thanks Northern Liberty Alliance- great link!

http://northernlibertyalliance.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/generation-zero/

http://www.nolanchart.com/article7385.html

More here:

http://generationzeromovie.com

American Indian Reservation Reaping Big Benefits From Oil Drilling

This could be  across America as well as Indian Reservations. Jobs, tax revenue for the States and Federal government. Decrease the trade deficit. Independence. Drill Baby, Drill. 

New Town, N.D. (AP) – An oil boom on American Indian land has brought jobs, millions of dollars and hope to long-impoverished tribal members who have struggled for more than a century on the million-acre Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
 
In little more than a year, oil companies have put dozens of money-producing rigs on remote rolling prairie and sprawling badlands that are home to small cattle ranches and scattered settlements of modular housing. Although other tribes around the nation have oil interests, industry officials said none has likely experienced a recent windfall of this scale.

Dozens of wells have been drilled and more than 500 could be operating within five years

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/61841