@michaelmax
I love it when the pseudos spout their insecurities on threads ...
Before you resort to name-calling... "It takes one to know one. "You just called yourself an IDIOT.
My mother was born in Venezuela... Born in one of the numerous villages in the Delta. The Warao are an Indigenous Amerindian people inhabiting northeastern Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname. Her family came to worship at San Fernando Hill in south T&T and stayed. They predate the Arawaks and Caribs. The Spanish used them as slaves; that's why they fled the delta....
Now, where am I aligning myself, with the white narrative or whiteness?
Now tell me... Were you a slave? How did slavery affect you? Did it provide an opportunity?
See why I respond to very few here... My mother's family were Spanish slaves; one of the relatives came from Peru... As a goldsmith, I have noted such here.
It’s a critique of a system that can dress itself up as humanitarian while operating with the logic of control and extraction. Call it exploitation, call it coercive labour, call it state-managed servitude, choose the term you think is most precise. But don’t pretend the restrictions are imaginary, don’t pretend the wage capture is irrelevant, and don’t hide behind insults when someone points out what these missions can look like on the ground
My notation based on factual information shows how the Cuban government is forcing such individuals to work in similar conditions as slaves... I view coercive labour as slavery in the 21st century.
The point is the controlling architecture: the limits on autonomy, the surveillance, the threat of punishment, the separation of families as policy, the inability of married couples to be stationed together in the same country. Those are not minor “HR policies.” They’re mechanisms of control. They exist for a reason.
Would you work under the conditions I noted above plus the government pays you 5% to 25% of what it collects, estimated to be between 5 and 6 billion USD annually?
Your diatribe above lacks facts and is classified as moot...
Sigh
Note: Did the West Indian cricket players accept their pay cut when travelling in India?