Cuba’s Export Blood Business: An Unpreedented Case of State-Trafficking - Cuba Archive

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  • 15 mayo, 2016
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For decades, the Cuban state has run a multi-million dollar business with blood, collected from unknowing and un-remunerated citizens.

As early as the mid-1960s Cuba was reportedly selling blood to at least Vietnam and Canada. By 1995, blood exports of US$30.1 million were Cuba’s 5th export product after sugar, nickel, crustaceans, and cigars.

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