#ConcertforCuba, two weekends of international musical performances, explored new potentials for international cultural and political collaboration. No live music in your town? Enjoy music from the world with a global audience dancing to the same beats.

On July 18 and 19, Chicago-based HotHouse, led by Marguerite Horberg, the Instituto Cubano de la Música, Raúl Cruz and attorney Bill Martínez provided the core to unite 80 segments of music, solidarity messages, and poems with more than 300 volunteers making it all come together. 

Get Out of Cuba’s Way came back the next weekend, July 25 and 26, with African music, dancing and voices coinciding with international celebrations of the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, which launched the end of U.S. backed dictatorships in Cuba.

The HotHouse “thank you” email reported 200,000 online viewers with millions more in Cuba’s live broadcast on Canal Clave. Media sponsor Pacifica Foundation, with a network of listener-sponsored radio stations, simulcast in Washington, D.C.; New York City; Atlanta; and other cities, sending the united salute to Cuban doctors, amplifying a chorus to #unblockCuba

The July 18 and 19 lineup included Orbert Davis’ Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Osain Del Monte, Ozomatli, Grupo Moncada, the fabulous Omara Portuondo y La Orquesta Failde and Los Van Van. Music with a message uplifting praise for Cuban medical workers and calling for the end of the U.S. strangulation blockade was expressed by more than 100 individuals. Nancy Morejón read her poem for George Floyd, murdered by the Minneapolis police on May 25.

Elected officials and noted film makers Danny Glover, Michael Moore and Ed Asner added their voices to activist leaders. Alicia Jrapko; the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity; and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, promoted the nomination of Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Prize.

While the global pandemic forced us to stay apart for our health and the health of our communities, it has unleashed creative new ways of uniting on a level and with a breadth previously unknown and unavailable to our movements. Although the U.S. blockade prevents Cuba from using Zoom and WebEx, we have found other tools for Cuba to speak for herself. Cuba’s message of solidarity, unity and putting human security, needs and development first, is being heard throughout a world looking for answers to an unprecedented health and capitalist economic collapse.

New York — Supporters of the Cuban Revolution rallied in Union Square on July 26, on the anniversary of the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks led by Fidel Castro. The event was organized by Cuba Sí NYC.

Pickets demanded an end to the U.S. blockade and threats against socialist Cuba; that the U.S. get out of Guantánamo, which it illegally occupies and where the Pentagon runs a torture prison for captives of the “war on terror”; and an end to the slander campaign against Cuban medical brigades, which have so far traveled to more than 30 countries to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

A small group of about 15 right-wingers attempted to disrupt the solidarity action, aggressively confronting pickets, waving Trump flags and chanting “Trump 2020!” These fascists were allowed to do so by the New York Police Department, whose cops did almost nothing to separate them despite their ongoing physical provocations.

However, the pro-Cuba activists weren’t deterred. Several formed a line of defense between the right-wing goons and the speakers and rally participants. 

Tarik Haskins, a former Black Liberation Army member who spent 17 years as a political prisoner in U.S. dungeons, saluted the Cuban Revolution and reminded both supporters and enemies of Cuba that revolutionaries are ready and able to fight back against right-wing violence. He also said that even right-wing Cuban emigres aren’t immune to racist police brutality in the U.S., no matter how much they show their loyalty to white supremacy.

After the rally, Cuba supporters marched together to the subway entrance to ensure everyone was able to leave safely.

Today Cuba celebrates the 67th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks that mark the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. From this beginning, Cuba’s altruistic view of making the world safer and healthier began.

It has developed into a society that gives everything it has without expecting credit. There are hundreds of examples of this like what took place in 1986, after the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl, when blockaded Cuba took in over 20,000 young cancer victims and their family members from 1989 to 2011 providing medical care, schooling, clothing, food, accommodation, playgrounds – all free of charge.

Another story worth remembering is one of forgiveness in 2007 when Mario Terán, the Bolivian sergeant who murdered Che Guevara on October 9, 1967, was operated on for free by Cuban doctors who restored his vision in a hospital donated by the Cuban government to Bolivia and inaugurated by President Evo Morales in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

And now Cuba is on the world stage in the midst of this dangerous global Pandemic and Cuba is continuing to save lives, while the US government and its media instead of being constructive in the battle have intensified the campaign to discredit Cuba’s collaboration. The misinformation is not surprising from a country whose president’s main vocation is preaching an endless stream of lies.

Even Trump’s faithful followers must be starting to see that there is a contradiction in how the richest country in the world has not been able to put any brake on the virus, is accumulating the highest number of infections and deaths, with no end in sight, while attacking Cuba, a nation that not only has been able to control the pandemic but has extended their full solidarity to other nations.

Why the Trump administration puts priority on discrediting Cuba’s international missions abroad that save lives instead of focusing on the social and human cost in the US is mindboggling and criminal. Trump, his anti-Cuba friends in Florida, and the mainstream media are mixing up a concoction of ignorance with malicious intention, never mentioning that Cuba has flattened the curve of the virus and has had only one death in three weeks.

All the empty words we hear about the Cuban Medical Brigades going to other countries being forced labor is not only without proof but fails to explain why there are many more medical professionals volunteer to go than openings. Furthermore, the White House, the State Department, and the media fail to mention one word about the 60-year-old US blockade and its impact against the island that causes unnecessary suffering for the Cuban people. As we have become accustomed, the Trump Administration likes to throw things at the wall to see what sticks.

A few days ago, Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, an organization with a long history of parroting the official line of the US,  jumped on the bandwagon with a twit, “Cuban doctors deployed abroad offer valuable service but at the expense of their freedoms”. At least Mr. Roth admitted that Cuban doctors offered valuable services but Roth offered no proof about what he meant. He continues, “They can be disciplined for being friends w/ people who hold hostile or contrary views to the Cuban revolution and face prosecution if they “abandon” their jobs. This is the Executive Director of an international so-called human rights organization talking with no examples.

Cuba with a little more than 11 million people has more than 95,000 doctors, 9 for every 1,000 inhabitants, and more than 85,000 nurses that are part of the 492,000 Cuban health professionals according to the latest Statistical Yearbook at the beginning of 2019.

According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the first brigade of Cuba health professionals to provide services abroad was in Algeria in 1963. Since then, more than 400,000 professionals have served in 164 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and even Portugal.

These services are popularly known as “medical missions,” include sending health professionals to countries that officially request them from the Cuban government. And those who go do so voluntarily because they are part of a society that puts human lives at the center. They leave their families behind for a just cause but they also know that the Cuban government will take care of them.

Cuba is so respected around the world that recently eight Cuban Scientists were chosen as Advisors for the World Struggle against COVID-19 as part of an Inter-Academy Panel (IAP). In 2000, the IAP founded the Inter-Academy Council (IAC) and the Inter-Academy Medical Panel (IAMP).  Currently, membership includes 140 national and regional Academies of Science, including all branches of science, engineering, and medicine from around the world.

Despite the slander, Cuba continues to extend its solidarity with great pride. Currently, there are three thousand members of the Henry Reeve medical brigades (designed to fight pandemics and natural disasters) who are on the front lines of the pandemic in 37 countries with 43 brigades.

But the attacks never quit, on May 8, 2020, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) added another $2 million to undermine the work of the brigades and a month later, head Cuba hater Marco Rubio joined other Republican Senators and presented a bill to “punish” countries that sign agreements with the Cuban government to receive this support. Rubio’s credibility has been suspect ever since he was caught in his own lies by claiming his parents ‘came to America following Fidel Castro’s takeover’ of Cuba when in fact they came to the US in 1956, three years before the revolution during the repression of the US-backed Bautista regime.

One would think that government officials in Florida like Rubio would be focused on containing COVID-19 in their state that has become an epicenter of infection rates and deaths instead of being fixated on tarnishing the success that Cuba is having in beating back the pandemic.

Some of the medical personnel are now returning to Cuba from their missions and have been telling their experiences in their own words to the people through video conferencing, welcomed by President Miguel Diaz Canel.

Dr. Edelsy Delgado, an Intensive Care specialist from the Gustavo Aldereguía Hospital in Cienfuegos, kept a journal during the three months he spent in Andorra. He said upon his return “Believe me, we represented Cuba at the highest level.”

Leidisbet Lopez Cantero, a nurse from Camaguey, was the flag-bearer who couldn’t hold back her tears when she got off the airplane that brought her to Havana and saw her mother and son speaking of her in the welcoming video.

Dr Michael Cabrera Laza, head of the group of five distinguished consultants in Nicaragua, was deeply moved as he spoke of traveling through all 17 regions of Nicaragua, and finding in absolutely all of them the marks left by some Cuban doctor or teacher or the presence of some community leader trained in Cuba. “And in every action that we carried out, Fidel was there.”

Nurses Francisco Gonzalez Prada of Sancti Spiritus, Liliana Martinez of Holguin, and Aldo Moreira of Camaguey, who were all part of the Antigua and Barbuda brigade testified about their own feelings when they saw the positive changes in how their patients felt when they found out they were being cared for by Cubans. “I didn’t make a mistake; I am right where I should be.”

Cuba is right where they should be without hesitation.

Alicia Jrapko is one of the co-chairs of the US Nobel Peace Prize for Cuban Doctors and a co-chair of the National Network on Cuba NNOC. To endorse the campaign go to https://www.cubanobel.org/nobelcuba

Source: Resumen

On June 19, Vietnam Women’s Union President Ha Thi Nga had a meeting with Lianys Torres Rivera, ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Vietnam, and conferred the merit medal “For the Development of Women in Vietnam” on Nancy Coro Aguiar, deputy head of the Cuba Mission in Vietnam. The meeting contributed to nurturing the close relationship between the women of the two countries.

At the meeting, VWU President Ha Thi Nga emphasizes that the Vietnam-Cuba relationship is very special and it has been constantly cultivated through generations of leaders, people and women of the two countries. The VWU, in collaboration with Vietnam Television, has finished a documentary film on the relationship between the women of the two countries on the occasion of 60 years of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Cuba (1960-2020). 

Ha Thi Nga pledged to do her best as the new VWU president to promote the relations between the women’s unions and women of the two countries.

Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera expressed her emotion when watching the documentary film and affirmed that the Embassy of Cuba is willing to support the activities of the two women’s organizations in order to promote the advancement of women and gender equality in the two countries.

The VWU president thanked the Cuban Embassy and expects that the embassy will continue sharing information on women in politics, science and technology in Cuba, as well as supporting the two women’s unions in upcoming activities.

On this occasion, VWU President Ha Thi Nga conferred the merit medal “For the Development of Women in Vietnam” to Nancy Coro Aguiar, deputy head of the Cuban Mission, for her contributions to promote the relations between the women and women’s unions of the two countries during her term in Vietnam.

Source: Vietnam Women’s Union

The United States government has been the main organizer and sponsor of terrorism in the world since the country’s emergence as a power with aspirations of universal hegemony.

Over the course of contemporary history, this country has created, structured and provided support to all kinds of self-proclaimed paramilitary and terrorist groups around the world, while providing assistance to dictatorial governments that used terror as a tool of repression against their people.

The terrorist war unleashed against Cuba was conceived as U.S. state policy. The countless military, economic, biological, diplomatic, psychological, propagandistic and espionage attacks, the sabotage and attempts to physically eliminate leaders of the revolutionary process, are part of an official strategy developed and implemented by the White House to defeat the Cuban Revolution and end the construction of socialism on the island.

The overwhelming evidence has been reviewed so many times. The hijacking of airplanes, which before 1959 had no precedent in the world, was a method devised and used precisely by the CIA in its program of terrorist actions that began with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The toll of 3,478 dead and 2,099 disabled Cubans, victims of this violent plan, are more than enough to make clear the serious consequences of these crimes.

Two months after the terrorist Alazo Baró shot “to kill” at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, the complicit silence of the U.S. government indicates that the story is to be continued.

The motivations that inspired the mercenary and his puppeteers in Miami are products of the policy of tolerance, complicity and encouragement of hatred that for years allowed the likes of Orlando Bosch, Posada Carriles and other criminals, tutored by the U.S. government, to act with complete freedom.

Both the impunity with which these extremists act, and the absence of a reaction on the part of the Trump administration to the seriousness of an armed assault on a foreign diplomatic headquarters, silently answer the basic question: Who really sponsors terrorism?

Invariably, Cuba takes the high road, responding by offering lessons, amidst the COVID-19 crisis, and looking to the ethical protection of Martí’s ideas: “Those [places] where hate or intolerance are preached, fall down in good time: but temples? Now more than ever, temples of love and humanity are needed, to unleash all that is generous in man, and subdue all that is crude and vile in him.”

Source: Granma

Estados Unidos ha sido el principal organizador y patrocinador del terrorismo en el mundo, desde su surgimiento como potencia con aspiraciones de hegemonía universal.

En el transcurso de la historia contemporánea, esa nación creó, estructuró y proporcionó apoyo de todo tipo a grupos paramilitares y terroristas confesos alrededor del orbe. También brindó asistencia a numerosos gobiernos dictatoriales que usaron el terror como herramienta de represión contra sus pueblos.

La guerra terrorista desatada contra Cuba fue concebida como política de Estado. La variedad de acciones militares, económicas, biológicas, diplomáticas, sicológicas, propagandísticas, de espionaje, la ejecución de actos de sabotaje y los intentos de liquidar físicamente a los líderes del proceso revolucionario, forman parte de una estrategia oficial creada y ejecutada desde la Casa Blanca para derrotar a la Revolución y detener la construcción del socialismo en la Isla.

Demasiadas son las evidencias que tantas veces se han repasado: el secuestro de aviones, que hasta 1959 no tenían precedentes en el mundo, fue un método ideado y utilizado precisamente por la cia en su programa de acciones terroristas a partir del triunfo de enero. Las cifras de 3 478 cubanos fallecidos y 2 099 incapacitados como víctimas de todos los planes violentos sobre la Mayor de las Antillas, muestran las graves consecuencias del flagelo.

Dos meses después de que el terrorista Alazo Baró disparara «a matar» contra la Embajada cubana en Washington, el silencio cómplice de la Casa Blanca sacó a la luz los engendros de un pasado aún cercano en el tiempo.

El espíritu que animó al mercenario y a sus titiriteros en Miami, nace de la política de tolerancia, complicidad e incentivación del odio que durante años permitió actuar con entera libertad a los Orlando Bosch, Posada Carriles y otros monstruos nacidos bajo la tutela del Gobierno.

Tanto la impunidad con que actúan los extremistas, como la reacción ausente de la administración de Donald Trump ante la gravedad de un asalto armado a una sede diplomática extranjera, responden silenciosamente la interrogante mayor: ¿Quién realmente patrocina al terrorismo?

Invariable, la respuesta de Cuba siempre tiene la misma altura, como estas que ofrece, a modo de lecciones, en medio de la crisis provocada por la covid-19, y al amparo ético del ideario martiano: «Aquellos donde se predique el odio, o la intolerancia, vénganse abajo en buen(a) hora: pero ¿templos? ahora se necesitan más que nunca, templos de amor y humanidad que desaten todo lo que en el hombre hay de generoso, y sujeten todo lo que en él, de crudo y vil».

Fuente: Granma

On July 1, the City Council of Cleveland in the state of Ohio unanimously adopted a resolution calling for “an end to the U.S. economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba.” The body, which represents 383,000 residents, urges the current administration to renew negotiations with the Cuban government. The vote was 14-0 with three council people absent, as published in The City Record on July 3.

This is the 14th such municipal resolution. Cleveland joins Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland and Sacramento, Calif.; Seattle; Helena, Mont.; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.; Detroit and Meridian Township, Mich.; Pittsburgh; Brookline, Mass.; and Hartford, Conn. 

To confront the COVID-19 pandemic, city councils are now calling for medical collaboration with Cuba. On May 5, the Richmond City Council cited that the U.S. “has placed restrictions on access to Cuban goods and knowledge,” and therefore it supports lifting the restrictions on the Cuban-developed medicine Interferon Alfa 2B Recombinant and medical collaboration with Cuba in the fight against COVID-19.

On June 16, the Berkeley City Council went further, explicitly adopting the three goals of the Saving Lives Campaign. Those goals are:

1. Allowing U.S.-Cuba-Canada medical, clinical and scientific collaboration, including inviting Cuban medical brigades to provide direct medical assistance and/or to provide advice and guidance in treating COVID-19.
2. Incorporating Cuba’s Interferon Alfa 2B Recombinant in clinical trials in the U.S., Canada and the World Health Organization, and for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to grant approval for Cuba’s Interferon Alfa 2B Recombinant.
3. Ending U.S. economic and travel sanctions against Cuba, including attempts to stop all other countries from accepting Cuban medical brigades and assistance, and ending all ongoing measures that prevent Cuba from accessing and importing medical equipment and medicines to confront COVID-19.

Join Saving Lives Campaign

In articles about the devastation of the pandemic in Latin America, the corporate media studiously avoid mentioning how Cuba has tamed the virus and saved lives. Caring for 11.3 million people, Cuba has only suffered 86 deaths. But from the Bronx to Detroit, from Chicago to Miami, Oakland and South Central Los Angeles, the death tolls are rising. These hit Black, Indigenous and Latinx workers disproportionately harder. 

More information is available at the Saving Lives Campaign website, including data on Interferon Alfa 2B Recombinant and how it has been used to save lives in China and Cuba. 

Add your name to the list of endorsers. Ask your organization to sign on to the statement. Print it out and take it to your doctor. Have a friend who works in a hospital or health care facility? Ask them to sign on and take it to their union. Even while social distancing, there are many things we can do in the fight for “Saving Lives.”

The U.S. government is using the pandemic as a weapon against Cuba and Venezuela. Washington uses unilateral sanctions and its domination of international trade in dollars to interrupt trade between sovereign countries. In real terms, these sanctions deny fuel, medicine, personal protective equipment, food and raw materials needed for producing materials that are needed by people. 

In April, the Associated Press reported that a donated planeload of virus-fighting equipment — face masks and testing kits — was blocked when the airline refused to land in Cuba out of fear of possible fines for sanctions violations. 

Not a week goes by without the administration in Washington leveling a new slanderous attack against Cuba, particularly aimed at Cuba’s international medical solidarity brigades, but also the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America’s cooperative relationship with Venezuela. 

Now Cuba and Venezuela have been included on a new list of “foreign adversaries,” issued by the U.S. Department of Energy and just published in the Federal Register, according to the Miami Herald. 

The hostility from Washington and a few elected officials in Florida doesn’t represent the will of the people in the U.S. or around the world. 

The blossoming of creative campaigns like the municipal resolutions noted in this article; the nomination of Cuba’s Henry Reeve Brigade of doctors for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize; and a two-day International Concert for Cuba to be broadcast live on July 18-19 reflect the desire for peace, friendship and cooperation between people in the U.S. and Cuba.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla discussed the April 30 attack on the country’s embassy in Washington with the press, stating: “Here is the attacker, an AK-47 rifle, 32 shell casings, 32 bullet holes and a statement – by the perpetrator – of his intention to attack and kill”

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, during a May 12 online press conference, to discuss the April 30 terrorist attack on the Cuban embassy in the United States, stated: “Here is an attacker, an AK-47 rifle, 32 shell casings, 32 bullet holes and a statement – by the perpetrator – of his intention to attack and kill.”

From the U.S. government we have received only silence, a silence that we know well, one that has accompanied violence against Cuba by groups based in U.S. territory for years. Every wave of terror was preceded by rabid campaigns of hate, rancor, threats, and attempts to discredit Cuba’s work in the international arena, alongside tightening of the economic siege.

The deaths number 3,478, with 2,099 Cubans disabled, in addition to incalculable economic damage. Terrorism has cost the country, carried out with or without the support of the U.S. government, but always with its blessing, following CIA directives. Hundreds of terrorists groups have been created, financed and trained by the CIA, organizations that had in their ranks notorious killers like Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles, Guillermo and Ignacio Novo Sampol, among others.

The Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU), created in 1976, meant the integration of an international terrorist network, the first in history. “War on the roads of the world,” as they called it, did not respect borders or international law, and Cuban embassies were the preferred target.

More than 370 terrorist operations were carried out in those years; the atrocious bombing of a Cuban civilian airplane in mid-flight was the ultimate expression of this hatred, aggravated and protected by silence from the White House.

The perpetrator of the most recent attack on our embassy in Washington, Alexander Alazo Baró met with persons of known hostile behavior toward the Cuban Revolution, at a church called the Doral Jesus Worship Center. One of his “friends” at the religious center, Pastor Frank Lopez, maintains close relations with none other than Marco Rubio, Congressman Diaz-Balart and other persons with recognized extremist positions.

His behavior prior to the attack could not have been more obvious; he did not hide his hatred for the nation of his birth, or his delusions, be they real or fictitious; he was short of money, without a steady job, as his wife stated to several sources. Days earlier he had surveyed the site, planned every step of what he would do, all in the middle of Washington DC, just a few blocks from the White House, in a heavily guarded area. Ready for anything, at zero hour he drove miles with an AK-47, and fired on his target.

Cuba has every reason to demand an exhaustive investigation of the facts from the U.S. government, and that the necessary measures be adopted to prevent a return to times of spilled innocent blood, to put an end to the country’s hostile policy, verbal attacks, and actions that encourage such behavior.

Source: Granma

Shots were fired at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., in the early hours of April 30. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla reported by tweet this morning that “mission staff was not injured and is safe. Investigation is in progress.” Rodríguez Parilla emphasized, “It is the responsibility of States to protect diplomats accredited to them and their facilities.”

This attack comes just the morning after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other administration officials made public statements vilifying Cuba’s humanitarian international medical missions. 

Behind the scenes, U.S. diplomatic arm twisting has failed to block requests for Cuban medical assistance. In frustration, Pompeo singled out Qatar, and South Africa welcoming its second brigade. 

There are now more than 20 countries with Cuban medical professionals helping to fight COVID-19, plus even more countries requesting Cuba’s Interferon Afa-2b Recombinant. A #SavingLives campaign is growing in the U.S., too, advocating U.S.-Cuba-Canada Collaboration in Fighting COVID-19, including clinical trials for Cuban interferon.  

On April 3, the Associated Press quoted Andorran Foreign Minister María Ubach about welcoming Cuban medical internationalists to the tiny country on the border of France and Spain:  “I am aware of the position of the United States, but we are a sovereign country and we can choose the partners with which we are going to have cooperation.”

TheHill.com reported that an individual arrested at the scene is facing “charges of being in possession of an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition, assault with the intent to kill, and possession of a high-capacity feed device.”

For those who want to oppose the latest attack on socialist Cuba in words and deeds, please go to SavingLives.US-CubaNormalization.org for more information.

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April 29, 2020

‘Why not in the U.S. and Canada?’

North Americans call for cooperation with Cuba in #SavingLives Campaign

The U.S.-Cuba-Canada Collaboration to Fight Covid-19 announced today more than two hundred medical professionals, academics, elected officials and concerned multi-country residents endorsed a statement calling for medical, clinical and scientific collaboration with Cuba, incorporating Cuba’s Interferon Alfa 2B Recombinant in clinical trials and ending the attempts to stop other countries from accepting Cuban medical assistance and measures preventing Cuba from importing medical equipment and medicines.

In this moment, when the planet is facing a pandemic and the lives of human beings are at risk, solidarity and collaboration are essential. No source of life saving expertise can be sidelined in the fight against this new disease

Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and one of the country’s most respected health experts supports including Cuba’s Interferon Alpha 2B in trials. He said: “I hope that ALL possible drugs are rapidly and comprehensively evaluated without regard to country of origin.”

Medical collaboration between entities in the United States and Cuba have precedents.. The recent PBS Nova program Cuba’s Cancer Hope outlines Cuba’s partnership with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center for an FDA trial of Cuba’s lung cancer vaccine Cimavax-EGF. In 2016 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the U.S. Health and Human Services and Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health, laying the basis for collaboration such as this. In 2017 four Cuban doctors joined with the University of Illinois to work on high maternal and infant deaths in a Chicago neighborhood.

An April 21-22 snapshot of COVID-19 statistics comparing the City of Detroit, population 670,000, with Cuba, 11.3 million, gives ample reason to reach out for Cuban expertise. “With only 6 percent of Cuba’s  population, Detroit suffered 18 times more deaths,” said Cheryl LaBash, from the Miller Grove Block Club in Northwest Detroit. “Let’s try everything to save lives, now,” she ended.

For  interviews or more information, contact:

Isaac Saney (Canada) +1 902-449-4967; email: isaney@hotmail.com

Sean O’Donoghue (Quebec/French) +1 514-721-4527; email: tableqccu@gmail.com

Cindy Domingo (US) +1206 856-0324 email: CindyDomingo@gmail.com

Alicia Jrapko (Spanish) +1 510-219-0092; correo electronico: ajrapko@yahoo.com

This campaign is a united effort between the U.S. based National Network on Cuba (NNOC.info) and the Canadian Network on Cuba (.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca)

Find us on the web at SavingLives.US-CubaNormalization.org

Email: SavingLives@US-CubaNormalization.org