The date was commemorated at the embassy of the Antillean island, whose representatives underlined the commitment to continue defending the works and ideas of the recognized Commander-in-Chief in his country and other places, according to the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina.
The date was also indirectly recognized by the newspaper La R, with an article titled “Solidarity is the tenderness of the peoples.”
The text praises the solidarity contribution of Cuba to other peoples, promoted by Fidel Castro,
In a few hours it will be 15 years of Cuba’s solidarity contribution through its Medical Brigades to install the Miracle operation in Uruguay, Camilo Álvarez signed in the note published today in the digital edition of that Uruguayan multimedia.
Talking about Cuba is already a synonym of solidarity, he wrote.
That is recognized by their own and others. In Uruguay, 15 years of work of the Cuban Medical Brigade are celebrated. After the José Martí Eye Hospital was inaugurated, that Brigade would begin to display solidarity, the editor signed.
Álvarez recalls that internationalist health missions have accompanied the Cuban Revolution since its inception.
On this, he wrote that 60 years had passed since a group of West Indian health workers arrived in Algeria to treat the sick.
Since then we can mention Operation Miracle, where thousands and thousands of people from different countries have undergone surgery to recover their vision, he pointed out and later referred to the experience in his country.
It is no small thing that 100,000 people in Uruguay have undergone surgery. Initially with trips to Cuba, where the entire process necessary for ophthalmological interventions was carried out, he commented.
Then the Eye Hospital and the operations here. I’m sure we all have a relative or friend in Uruguay who underwent surgery. That’s a lot of people for a country like ours, he continued.
The first patients went by plane to Cuba to undergo surgery. Until 2007 there were 32 flights that carried more than two thousand people, Álvarez said.
And he added: impossible not to think about these “flights of life” that Cuban solidarity allowed us. Impossible not to contrast them with the “flights of death” that promoted the Condor plan and that even today we do not know much about.
The fact that we are celebrating the 15th year of this solidarity embrace is, above all, celebrating the recognition, pointed out the article, which anticipates the upcoming celebration of the work of the Cuban medical team at the Hospital de Ojos in Montevideo.
It is an installation of the Uruguayan public health system, which bears the name of José Martí, whose first disciple Fidel Castro recognized himself.
