CDMX, Mexico-. Hilda Molina y Morejon was one of the most eminent Cuban scientists in the area of Neurology. Not by chance, she was the mind that devised and directed the International Center for Neurological Restoration (CIREN). The center of hers was her idea and when Fidel Castro found out about her, he approved it because he saw in the institution a way to magnify her name and her achievements in Cuba.
Hilda’s wish was that Cubans would be the ones to enjoy the advances of the center, founded in 1989, and its facilities. But Fidel Castro had other plans. In the 1990s, the Cuban dictator decided that the center would serve foreigners in order to charge the services in foreign currency. At the beginning there were some beds but then they wanted to take more space.
This was the turning point for Hilda, who not only did not accept it, but also requested her resignation in 1994. In addition, she also disregarded her place as a deputy to the National Assembly of People’s Power. The doctor could not accept that the center that she created was dollarized and that nationals were discriminated against. That was not her dream.
Leaving was her decision, but Castro would never forgive her for such an affront, who punished her by leaving her imprisoned on the jail island. In addition, another not so well-known fact about this woman’s history is that Fidel Castro proposed that she be “her life partner” and she politely rejected him, according to Hilda and an Argentine diplomat who was aware.
It occurred to her, with great fear, to tell him that he was like God and she was not enough to love the God of the Cubans. She thus fed the dictator’s ego and perhaps he would leave her alone.
“I don’t know if he admired me or it was a whim. I couldn’t fall in love with him because I had seen his soul. Then my life was destroyed. He separated me from my son, ”she recounted during an interview in 2020
Even so, Castro’s obsession did not stop and he forced her to go to events where he participated.
From scientist to opponent
After 1994, Hilda went from being a scientist exhibited by the regime to a human rights activist. in october nineteen ninety sixHilda Molina returned to the Minister of Health the decorations she had received from the Cuban Revolution and completely broke its relations with the dictatorship.
Roberto Quiñones, Hilda’s son, lived in Argentina and wanted his mother and grandmother to join him. However, Castro did not want to.
For 15 years he left her captive on the island despite all the international campaign that was generated to allow her to travel. Molina’s case reached the point of affecting relations between Cuba and Argentina.
even the president Nestor Kirchner He distanced himself from Castro because he refused to give in to his request to let the doctor out. The most that Fidel agreed to was to allow his family to fly from Buenos Aires to Havana.
“One of the distinctive traits of Fidel’s personality is his resentment. He has thus achieved that all the resentful in the world follow him. He has armed the revolution of anti-values. He has a mixture of passion and hatred for what he called Yankees. He was desperate to be accepted by the Americans.” signor in interview the neurosurgeon. She studied the psychological profile of her at the time they spoke in the 1980s and early 1990s.
“Fidel was a psychopath, a sociopath and a narcissist. Psychopaths are charismatic and intelligent. Fidel was wickedly smart, an extraordinary strategist. The big problem in the world has been ignoring it,” said the doctor.
Hilda’s 90-year-old mother was able to fly from Havana to Buenos Aires in May 2008 to be with her grandson and great-grandchildren. But Hilda had to wait a little longer.
In June 2009 Hilda, after 15 years of kidnapping, was able to meet her family in Buenos Aires thanks to negotiations between Raúl and Argentina. Fidel never wanted to free her from her.
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