Havana/The ruling has reacted “With amazement and sadness” to statements by Carlos Lazo, organizer of love bridges, who denounced this Friday that the Cuban authorities prevent the members of the group from accessing the pediatric hospitals of the island. “A statement of this type can bring with them that those who try to work against The system see us as bureaucrats, ”said Yilia Jiménez, Chief of International Collaboration of the Ministry of Public Health on national television.
According to Jiménez, the words of Lazo have made health managers remain as “inept officials, who interfere with the work of those who contribute to the Cuban people. Nothing is further, ”he claimed. LOOK “It has missed the truth. When he has not been able to visit the hospital, he has always sent evidence of the reception of these donations in the institutions. ”
“Perhaps if Professor Lazo has not been able to visit an institution is because his visit has been without prior notice, looking for a last minute ticket, and the institutions cannot always be visited so as not to interrupt care processes. It is not true that he has been forbidden to enter health institutions; He has done it all this time, ”he added.
He assured that Lazo had “many evidence”, provided by the ruling party, that denies his accusations. “I could show many of them,” said Jiménez, “but I think he is a man who has those evidence and we don’t need to argue more.”
“It could show many evidence,” said Jiménez, “but I think he is a man who has those evidence and we don’t need to argue more”
However, Jiménez contributed to the official press screenshots and photographs that show the activity of humanitarian groups related to the regime – including love bridges – in children’s hospital enclosures. The Pepe Association, the José Martí, Aurora and Nachito Herrera Cultural Association and “other Cubans from Canada and Spain” have helped “continuously and systematically” Cuba without the slightest difficulty, he added, “many times anonymously.”
“The visit to our institutions is not forbidden,” the official settled. “That is demonstrated by the recent donations of Nachito Herrera and Aurora to the Provincial Hospital of Villa Clara, with 24 tons of supplies and medications. Solidarity ants can attest to multiple visits to health institutions. ”
This Friday, in a direct one made in his personal Facebook account, Lazo said there is an “order” that prohibits members of love bridges from entering hospitals. “It has even come to ‘guide’ friends and institutions in Cuba who do not receive us and move away from us,” he said.
“It has even come to ‘guide’ friends and institutions in Cuba who do not receive us and move away from us,” he said
He has tried, he says, to elucidate the problem with institutions and officials. “But they are all evasive. The institutions and bureaucrats with whom we have tried to clarify the mess express us that nothing happens. But the displays, discourtesies and even verbal abuse that our activists have received show the opposite, ”he denounced.
In defense of Lazo other unconditional regime have come out, such as former spy Fernando González. “There is no margin to doubt. The help of love bridges reaches health centers, education centers and community projects, ”he wrote on Facebook. “Our institutions together with thousands of beneficiaries are direct witnesses of the solidarity hug of Cubans abroad and friendship associations. It is necessary in turn, that it continues to be viable in an orderly manner. ”
For his part, singer Israel Rojas, a member of the good faith group, alluded to the publication of Cubadebate And he said that “it is deeply unfair to suggest that (loop) lies.”
“In December I made a post trying to alert about what was clearly a fudge of some institutions in dealing with this group of emigrants who try to fight the blockade and perform activism in favor of normalizing relations between Cuba and the United States.” , Red wrote on Facebook.
According to him, institutions mistreat those who represent the regime in the neighboring country and face “in the streets of Miami with the most anti -Cuban hatred.” “I have witnessed how the treatment of them went from admiration to evasion. I don’t have to lie, ”he stressed.
His support for Loz has earned him “problems,” said Rojas, “rather than affirming that he was a fidelist.” “I have lost work, I have put myself in the eye of all hurricanes. What I never thought would be that I also touched the silver winds inside, ”he said. “If you are sending them the CIA (to love bridges), then let the CIA continue to be wrong and not fuck so much,” he argued, referring to the humanitarian work of the group. “That man is my brother,” he finished.
