Mexico president says Cuban doctors, praises Cuban counterpart
ReutersMay 9, 202211:55 AM EDTLast Updated 3 hours ago Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visits Cuba
MEXICO CITY, May 9 (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday lavished praise on Cuba’s leader, reiterated his wish for the Caribbean island nation to be invited to the Summit of the Americas in June and said Mexico would be hiring over 500 Cuban doctors.
Lopez Obrador, who visited Cuba over the weekend as part of a regional tour of Central America and the Caribbean, said at a regular news conference that he had met with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, as well as former President Raul Castro.
“They have an incredible president. An honest man, hardworking, human, a really good person,” Lopez Obrador said of Diaz-Canel, the Communist president who took office in 2019.
During the visit the two countries signed an agreement to expand cooperation in public health and another pledging to increase cultural, economic and other ties.
Lopez Obrador has emerged as the most important head of state in Latin America to criticize U.S. policy toward the region and Cuba, which he faults for mass migration, and to call for area integration and greater independence from Washington.
His use of words such as “depraved” to describe U.S. sanctions on Cuba and praise of Cuba’s COVID-19 vaccines have endeared him to the Cuban government
“Except for a couple of short-lived periods in which relations between Cuba and Mexico were tense, during the 63 years since the victory of the Cuban Revolution they have been between good or very good,” William LeoGrande, a professor of government at American University in Washington, said.
“With the advent of AMLO they have become excellent,” he added, referring to Lopez Obrador.
Lopez Obrador again said he wants all countries in the region to receive an invitation to the upcoming U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas, set to take place in June in Los Angeles. read more
The U.S. government has said Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s administration were unlikely to receive invitations to the summit. read more
Lopez Obrador also announced that Mexico will hire more than 500 Cuban doctors to help make up for a shortage of medical professionals, and that it will purchase COVID-19 vaccines from Cuba.
Cuban doctors were previously hired to work in Mexico earlier in the coronavirus pandemic, sparking criticism from members of Mexico’s opposition. read more
“We are also going to hire doctors from Cuba who are going to come to work in our country. We made this decision because we do not have the doctors we need in the country,” Lopez Obrador said.
The Cuban government did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on Lopez Obrador’s announcement.
The Mexican president announced in April that his country will vaccinate more children against COVID-19, urging global health authorities to deliver the doses it had ordered for the purpose. read more
Mexico will purchase vaccines from Cuba to vaccinate children as young as two years old, he said, adding, “It’s given (Cuba) great results.”
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Cuba reitera su solidaridad a Haití y ofrece sus condolencias
Solidaridad eterna hacia el noble pueblo haitiano. En estos duros momentos, como en otros durante muchos años, nuestro personal de Salud está salvando vidas allí, escribió en Twitter el Primer Secretario del Comité Central del Partido y Presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel
Autor: Yisel González Fuentes | yisefuentes@gmail.com 14 de agosto de 2021 20:08:33 Los cubanos junto al personal haitiano, asisten en las afueras de las instalaciones. Los cubanos junto al personal haitiano, asisten en las afueras de las instalaciones.
Foto: Tomada de Twitter Tras el terremoto de magnitud 7.5 vivido en tierra haitiana este sábado, el Primer Secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba y Presidente de la República, Miguel Díaz-Canel, escribió en Twitter:
«Solidaridad eterna hacia el noble pueblo haitiano. En estos duros momentos, como en otros durante muchos años, nuestro personal de Salud está salvando vidas allí. Los colaboradores cubanos se encuentran bien y ayudan en todo lo posible. ¡Cuente #Haiti siempre con #Cuba!».
Solidaridad eterna hacia el noble pueblo haitiano. En estos duros momentos, como en otros durante muchos años, nuestro personal de Salud está salvando vidas allí. Los colaboradores cubanos se encuentran bien y ayudan en todo lo posible. ¡Cuente #Haiti siempre con #Cuba! pic.twitter.com/fU43SF0xJs
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) August 15, 2021 También el miembro del Buró Político y ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla reiteró el apoyo de nuestro país y envió sus condolencias al pueblo y gobierno haitiano tras el sismo.
El titular del Minrex expresó además que «nuestros colaboradores de la salud atienden a heridos, incluso fuera de las instalaciones hospitalarias afectadas por el sismo».
Reiteramos nuestra solidaridad con Haití y trasladamos condolencias a su pueblo y gobierno, en especial a familiares de fallecidos.
Desde temprano hoy nuestros colaboradores de la salud atienden a heridos, incluso fuera de las instalaciones hospitalarias afectadas por el sismo. pic.twitter.com/BO7XXp1F5u
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) August 14, 2021 Más de medio millar de pacientes afectados por el terremoto, han sido atendidos por los colaboradores cubanos, informó Eugenio Martinez, Director General de América Latina y el Caribe del Minrex, a través de Facebook.
«En las instituciones hospitalarias afectadas, los cubanos junto al personal haitiano, asisten en las afueras de las instalaciones. La verdadera solidaridad Sin estridencia. Ninguno se ha tomado una foto. Están salvando vidas. No posando ni dando discursos bonitos para galerías. Esa es la estirpe de los cubanos», escribió el diplomático.
Por su parte, Luis Orlando Olivero, coordinador de la Brigada Médica Cubana en Haití, declaró a la prensa que hasta el momento ningún colaborador resultó herido durante el movimiento telúrico e informó que se alista en Puerto Príncipe un hospital de traumatología.
Hasta la noche del sábado, el informe de la Protección Civil de Haití detallaba que la cifra de fallecidos ascendía a 304 personas y se registraban más de 1 800 heridos.
El mayor número de muertes corresponde al departamento Sur, le siguen los departamentos de Grand’Anse, Nippes y el Noroeste.
Bilan partiel: le séisme a provoqué la mort de 304 personnes :
✅ 160 dans le Sud ✅ 42 dans les Nippes ✅ 100 dans la Grand’Anse ✅ 2 dans le Nord-Ouest#Haïti#Séisme#MiseàJour
At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting on June 23, 2021, Cuba will bring its annual resolution on the necessity to end the United States’ “Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo“ against the island. For 28 consecutive sessions, the UNGA has overwhelmingly voted in favor of ending this criminal and unjust US policy towards Cuba.
There is no doubt that this year, once again, the world will stand with Cuba in this vote. Cuba solidarity and anti-blockade activists and organizations in the United States and Canada are calling for united international action to increase the pressure on President Joseph Biden and the US Congress to end to the over 60-year-old cruel sanctions and bellicose hostility against Cuba!
In this light, the US-Cuba Normalization Committee is inviting people from the US, Canada, and around the world to get involved with a Week of Action Against the Blockade, beginning on June 17, 2021, through June 23, 2021, the day of the UN vote. Below is the initial list of events being organized, including the June 20th Car and Bicycle Caravans to defeat the blockade, and a 24-hour global online picket action that will culminate with a victory celebration of the historic UN vote in an international webinar.
#UnblockCuba2021 #EliminaElBloqueo
June 17 Facebook Livestream: Solidarity vs. Blockade 9 am Eastern 6 am Pacific
On June 17th, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) is organizing an international event to lead up to the June 23 vote at the United Nations against the blockade. Featuring: Karima Oliva Bello, Doctor in Psychological Sciences and political analyst. Helen Yaffe, Professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Founder of the solidarity organization Rocks Around the Blockade. Johana Tablada de la Torre. Ambassador and Deputy Director for the U.S. at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fernando Gonzalez Llort, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)
Once again, the friends of Puerto Rico’s decolonization and independence and all who oppose the criminal US blockade of our sister nation of Cuba will show our united solidarity.
Join the ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, The NY-NJ CubaSi Coalition, The Venceremos Brigade, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace for a solidarity picket/protest for Puerto Rico at the United Nations! Once again, the friends of Puerto Rico’s Decolonization and Independence and those who oppose the criminal blockade of our sister nation of Cuban need to show their solidarity. For the first time in recent history, the United Nations decolonization Committee Hearings on Puerto Rico and the annual vote on the Cuban Blockade are taking place within a week of each other!
On Friday, June 18th, the U.N. Decolonization Committee Hearings on Puerto Rico will be held. It is important that the international community see that the Puerto Rico Diaspora and its allies are united in demanding Puerto Rican Independence and Self-Determination.
Friday, June 18th at 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Picket and Protest at Ralph Bunche Park 1st Avenue and E. 42nd st.
A film about the untold story of Cuba’s contribution to help victims of Chernobyl.
SUNDAY JUNE 20, 2021 5:00 pm PST 7:00 pm CST 8:00 pm EST
Olexandr Savchenko, “Sacha,” was one year old when the explosion of the nuclear power plant Vladimir Ilich Lenin at Chernobyl occurred on April 26, 1986. He lived in Chernigov, a village in the Ukrainian countryside near the area of the accident. He got sick shortly afterward and doctors were unable to make a clear diagnosis because the healthcare system had collapsed while the then Soviet Union was close to disintegrating. Sacha’s condition worsened to the despair of his mother, Lidia Savchenko, who took her baby from one doctor to another without his getting better. One day, other mothers in similar situations told her that there was a possibility that he could be treated on a small island far away. Sacha, it turns out, is one of the 26,000 boys and girls from Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine who were treated in Cuba over a 21 year period after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl.
This is the context for the history told by the new 39-minute documentary film; Sacha, A Child of Chernobyl, directed by Cuban film-makers Roberto Chile and Maribel Acosta Damas and produced by the Argentine news agency Resumen Latinoamericano.
For nearly one year, a group in the United States, “Puentes de Amor” (Bridges of Love) led by the Cuban-American community, has been promoting monthly “Bike & Car Caravans” against the US blockade on Cuba in cities across the US and Canada. This inspiring movement against the inhuman US blockade has become a collaboration, initiated by Cuban-American activists and organizations and supported by the US and international Cuba solidarity movement. On June 20, the car and bicycle Caravans will be taking place in dozens of cities across the US, Canada, and around the world as part of the lead-up to the June 23 vote in the UN.
We encourage you to get involved in this important Caravan movement – and join in your own city. We are stronger together! Register your activity — starting time, location and public contact person. Email to: June20register@nnoc.info
Listen to a message from Carlos Lazo, Cuban teacher whose bike ride from Seattle to Washington DC inspired these caravans
24-Hour Global Online Picket Against the US Blockade on Cuba!
Starting: June 22 – 8 pm Eastern Time Special celebration and wrap up: June 23 – 8-10 pm Eastern Time
As part of international mobilizations at this important time – we invite you to unite your voice with people around the world at a 24-hour global picket featuring speakers, cultural performances, live-streaming of UN debate and vote, and more! To conclude the 24-hour picket action, there will also be a victory celebration international webinar featuring speakers, distinguished diplomats, and musicians from Cuba and around the world!
HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED? 1) Make sure to register: www.tinyurl.com/24hr4Cuba 2) Send your own 1-3 minute solidarity video messages speaking out against the blockade. These could be in any language. These can be sent over WhatsApp to +1-778-882-5223 or over email to webmaster@canadiannetworkoncuba.ca (with Wetransfer or other file transfer services).
Endorsed by: Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP-Cuba), El Movimiento Colombiano de Solidaridad con Cuba (MCSC-Colombia), Australia-Cuba Friendship Society WA, The U.S.-Cuba Normalization Conference Organizing Committee (U.S.), Cuba Support Group Ireland (CGSI), Associazione Nazionale di Amicizia Italia-Cuba, Table de concertation et de solidarité Québec – Cuba & The National Network on Cuba (NNOC) – U.S.
Rally against attempted US coup in Venezuela and ongoing efforts by US to end socialism in Cuba, held across the street from the Cuban Mission to the UN, hosted by the International Action Center and Workers World Party and led by Ike Nahem. Lots of repetitive chanting until 9:14 when several speakers are each given opportunity to express their views against US imperialism in other countries as well as Venezuela and Cuba. camera, edit by Joe Friendly
