“No collaborator has suffered injury after the attacks,” said the head of the regime’s Medical Mission in that country.
MIAMI, United States. – Dr. Yusleivy Martínez Carmona, head of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Venezuela, He assured this Monday that Cuban health collaborators in Venezuela maintain—or resume—their work, after the US operation that culminated in the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in the early hours of Saturday, January 3.
“All the collaborators are fine, all the collaborators are out of danger,” said Martínez Carmona during a contact in Caracas with journalist Raúl Rodríguez Peña, special envoy of Cuban radio.
When asked directly about victims, the official insisted: “No collaborator has suffered injuries after the attacks.”
The head of the brigade himself recalled that the Cuban Mission “is present in the 24 states” of Venezuela and pointed out that the impacts of the attack were concentrated in Miranda, La Guaira, Caracas and “a very specific area of Aragua.” According to their version, in the rest of the country “life continues as normal,” and precisely in those territories the aid workers have been returning to their care routine.
Martínez Carmona described a two-stage process: first, protection; then reincorporation. He said that the collaborators were “well protected, each one in their home,” and stated that they have been incorporating “as far as possible” into their “care work.” He even assured that “the people have been asking for the incorporation” of Cuban health professionals to the facilities where “it has been possible” to do so “in the last hours.”
The head of the brigade also insisted that the network of institutions where they work was not affected. “The health infrastructure in Venezuela did not suffer,” he said, and assured that “the comprehensive diagnostic centers remain impeccable” and that “the popular medical offices and the rest of the health structures are 100% operational and without any problems.” In closing, Rodríguez Peña concluded: “The Cuban medical mission continues to work here in Venezuela.”
In another sense, Martínez Carmona stated that “most of the collaborators have been communicating with their family” to convey “tranquility” and that they are “well protected.” He also said that they have had “a constant exchange” with the Cuban authorities and that the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) has been “dialogueing directly with collaborators” in the states where “the actions occurred.”
