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This Tuesday afternoon, with the presence of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the Youth Forum “I believe in you” took place, from which the new generations from different latitudes spoke about the legacy of the Commander in Chief. The conference was held in the context of the First International Colloquium “Fidel: legacy and future”, on its second day.
The same ones we met knocking on doors in La Quebradita, asking about the hypertensive, the asthmatic, the child with a fever. The same ones who climbed hills with a light backpack and an infinite load of humanity.
But now they don’t go up: they run, they leave without time, without rest, without guarantees. They wrap themselves in their medical robes – as if they were invisible cloaks – and throw themselves against disaster.
There is no protocol that is enough when life slips through the fingers, and even so, they improvise, resist, save.
We saw them do it before: Lidia talking until her death as if she were an old acquaintance, refusing to let her in; or Yanara opening the door at dawn because someone was knocking urgently; and Jorge, telling how a girl was born against all logic in the middle of nowhere.
Now those stories are repeated, but with the tremor still beating under the feet.
An old man rescued from the ruins in Catia, a woman being treated in the middle of the street, with dust still falling from her face, a child who breathes again thanks to hands that did not ask where he came from, but where he could return.
They don’t have all the necessary resources, they don’t have rest. Cuba cannot send riches to this tragedy, but years ago it sent something more difficult to sustain: men and women capable of staying when everything collapses.
In the hills, people do not call them by name, they point to them with a mixture of faith and urgency, as if they were the last frontier between life and oblivion.
“Here come the Cubans,” they say. And in that phrase there is relief, there is hope, there is something like a miracle.
They are not gods, but on days like these, when the earth betrays and the sky does not respond, they are too much more useful.
The day will culminate with a glaucoma investigation in Old Havana, specifically in the Convent of Belén, with the participation of patients, specialists from the institute and primary health care professionals.
At the same time, the hospital will perform minimally invasive glaucoma surgery on a demonstrative basis, aimed at resident doctors who are in training, as part of the teaching and professional updating process.
These actions reaffirm the commitment of the Cuban health system to the prevention of avoidable blindness, health education and the strengthening of the link between specialized services and the community.
As already reported, among the elements seized on the vessel are weapons. Among these weapons are assault rifles, sniper rifles, pistols, Molotov cocktails, multiple assault equipment – including night vision equipment, bulletproof vests, assault bayonets, camouflage clothing, ammunition of various calibres, food for use in combat, media and an important group of monograms of counter-revolutionary organizations of a terrorist nature. This information remains preliminary. More details will be provided in the coming days.
This is not an isolated act.
Cuba has been the victim of aggression and countless terrorist acts for more than 60 years. Most of them are organized, financed and executed from the territory of the United States.
In recent years, the Cuban authorities have denounced the increase in violent and terrorist actions and intrigues against Cuba, which have been inflicted through a feeling of impunity among the organizers and executors – in the face of any corrective action being taken against these criminals. The Cuban authorities have regularly provided the United States Government with information on persons who in recent years have been engaged in promoting, financing and organizing violent and terrorist acts against Cuba.
The story of the doctors at the José Luis Miranda Provincial Paediatric Hospital is that of a daily triumph against adverse odds.
In front of Mateo, anaesthesiologists, surgeons, neonatologists and nurses joined in a perfect choreography of knowledge and dedication; What in any other place would have meant an unattainable bill for a humble family, here was a right exercised: complex neonatal surgery, mechanical ventilation, parenteral nutrition and 24-hour surveillance, at no cost.
However, that “no cost” contains a bitter truth: it is the result of a titanic effort by the Cuban State to sustain what is free while navigating against a tide of prohibitions.
Cuba categorically declares that it does not harbour, support, finance or permit terrorist or extremist organizations. Our country maintains a zero-tolerance policy towards the financing of terrorism and money laundering, and is committed to preventing, detecting and confronting illicit financial activities, in line with international standards.
Any past interactions involving individuals subsequently designated as terrorists occurred only in limited humanitarian contexts, linked to internationally recognized peace processes, at the request of their respective governments, in a fully transparent manner.
Cuba does not host foreign military or intelligence bases and rejects characterization as a threat to U.S. security. Nor has it supported any hostile activity against that country nor will it allow our territory to be used against another nation.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 