Havana/Love bridges, the group of emigrants related to the regime that periodically sends Havana donations – especially of powdered milk and medicines – has been colliding with a “mysterious” regulation that prevents it from entering pediatric hospitals. According to his organizer, Carlos Lazo, from Covid-19, the authorities “said there was a certain epidemiological situation,” but the impediments continued even if that crisis ended. “When the epidemiological situation happened, it is already a flagrant prohibition that we go.”
In one direct Made in his personal Facebook account, preceded by a text in which he denounced the situation, Lazo said not to know why the island’s authorities does not allow their organization to access children’s hospitals to deliver supplies, as they had done by much time. “The ‘order’ prohibits that we carry the milk and inputs to the hospitals or that our solidarity efforts be made public. It has even come to ‘guide’ friends and institutions in Cuba who do not receive us and move away from us, ”he said.
Havana, however, continues to receive donations, but a loop that loves is obliged to deliver loads at the airport, and that they have given them a “clear warning”: “It is not allowed to go to any medical institution or Community ”.
As he explains, he has tried for several ways 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, ”denounced the organizer.
Lazo also revealed that it is not the only organization that is not allowed to deliver donations directly
As he told in the video, recently one of the members of Love Bridges – which took 2,750 pounds of powdered milk to the island for a hospital in Santa Cruz del Norte (Mayabeque) – suffered the desairs of the Cuban authorities. “As the hospital is from his neighborhood,” he wanted to see the delivery of the inputs, but “they told him clearly and bluntly and not very courtly, that his function was to bring the milk and from then on to forget the rest. I didn’t have to go anywhere to take anything, ”said Lazo.
The organizer also criticized that “extremism, suspicion and silencing against us are not only a phenomenon in Miami. In Cuba, phenomena also occur that discourage, block and offend those who, from anywhere in the world, fight every day for the Cuban family. ” As he said, the direct deliveries of the resources allowed his team not only to experience “firsthand the hardships caused by the blockade”, but to contradict the accusations that the inputs “do not reach the hospitals”.
Without giving details, Lazo also revealed that it is not the only organization that is not allowed to deliver donations directly, although he said he did not remember the name of the project to which he mentioned.
In addition to the regulation, the organizer also criticized that some of his collaborators are not allowed to enter the island because they are doctors who They deserted In missions abroad. For these cases, Cuba ordered a law that forces toilets to remain eight years without entering the country. That measure, Lazo defended, “punishes not only the person who broke the contract, but also to his family, children, and we believe that the victims of the blockade should not punish the victims of the blockade.”
The organizer also criticized that some of his collaborators are not allowed to enter the island because they were ‘deserted’ in missions abroad
He also alluded to the manifestations that Puentes de Amor has organized in recent years in the United States asking that the embargo from Cuba. “It is not fair that those activists, who take their work days and their resources to bring powdered milk to Cuba – and face threats, offenses and dangers in Miami – arrive in Cuba and are treated as stinking. Neither there or here I can remain indifferent when the effort of men and women who give so much for their people and the Cuban family is none, ”he said.
“The reasons for that prohibition I do not know,” Loz continued, who said that, although “it is true that we are forbidden to visit Cuban hospitals, we will still help our people, despite the inconveniences, from here or there. Neither regulations, nor misunderstandings, nor stumbles will prevent us from continuing to drive this work. ”
Love bridges was one of the organizations that donated inputs after passing through the island of Hurricanes Oscar and Rafael at the end of last year. So, as on other previous occasions, the Official Press celebrated donations and thanked the project for the victims.
