Cuba Ships Out Slave Labor

Those who have even passing knowledge of Cuba's communist regime know that most citizens work for what amounts to slave wages - that if it weren't for exiled family members sending U.S. dollars, many Cubans would face the real possibility of starving.

And now, castrp's Cuban government is exporting its slave labor:

The Cuban government conspired with a Curacao ship repair company to provide practically slave labor fixing up vessels, including Miami-based cruise ships, and kept workers under harsh conditions, a lawsuit filed in U.S. District court in Miami alleges.

The suit, filed by three workers who escaped and now live in Florida, alleges they were ordered to work 16-hour shifts for $16 a month, a low wage common in their native Cuba.

''We started work at 3 in the afternoon and kept working until 7 a.m. the following day,'' plaintiff Alberto Justo Rodríguez told The Miami Herald. ``We worked in the worst, most uncomfortable parts of the ship. Where nobody wanted to go -- that's where they sent the Cubans.''

According to the suit, the men often worked 112 hours a week.

Their wage amounted to 3 ½ cents an hour.

H/T El Confeti