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This island nation once again kisses her children on the forehead, bids them farewell with pride, and watches as they embark on another journey to where life demands their presence, without hesitation
This time, Azerbaijan is the destination for Cuban health professionals, whose internationalist vocation calls them to heal the pain of others. Thus the 115 members of this brigade are now joining thousands of their brothers and sisters around the world, showing that humanism and solidarity are the most effective vaccines against the new coronavirus.
A contingent of 115 health specialists from the Cuban medical brigade Henry Reeve arrives today in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where they will be received by authorities from the Azeri Ministries of Health and Emergency Situations.
Dalsy Torres, head of the contingent sent to this nation to cooperate in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, said that there are 67 men and 49 women, of which 57 are doctors and 55 are graduates, including 50 in nursing, in addition to an official from the Foreign Ministry.
The permanent representative of Cuba to UNESCO, Yahima Esquivel, denounced in a forum of the organization the effects of the U.S. blockade on the efforts of the Caribbean nation to confront the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking at the Executive Council of the multilateral body, she pointed out that at a time when countries should put solidarity, cooperation and dialogue before differences and political conflicts, as the Director General of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay has demanded, Washington does the opposite.
The Interreligious Platform of Cuba has released a statement repudiating the most recent hostile actions of the United States against our country as well as Washington's blockade of the island.
The religious movement, which includes the seven religions established across the country, expressed its indignation of the "unjust" inclusion of Cuba on the list of countries that "do not cooperate with anti-terrorist efforts" shortly after the attack on its embassy in Washington, DC.
Cuban ambassador to Algeria Armando Vergara recalled this Friday, the arrival in this country of the first Cuban medical brigade on an internationalist mission on May 23, 1963.
In an interview published by El Moudjahid newspaper, the diplomat noted that history 'records unforgettable times of friendship and solidarity' between the historic leaders of the Cuban and Algerian Revolution, respectively.
Mexican journalists joined on Friday to an increasingly universal request to grant the Nobel Peace Prize to the Henry Reeve Cuban Medical Brigade for their internationalist work.
Teodoro Renteria, on behalf of the National College-Graduate Journalism, Mexico section of the Latin American Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Associations of Mexican Journalists and the Primera Plana Club's Advisory Council expressed this remark in his daily column, one of the most widespread in Mexico.
The Pro-Human Rights Committee in Puerto Rico has joined the international demands to nominate the 'Henry Reeve' medical brigade for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Committee's spokesman Eduardo Villanueva Muñoz stated on Thursday that the Puerto Rican organization, which fights to preserve human rights in the country, unanimously decided to support the initiative by the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity to the Peoples to support the nomination to the Cuban medical brigade.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel pointed out that Cuba today remembers the 65th anniversary of the release of Fidel Castro and other assailants of the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba, and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in Bayamo.
In his Twitter account, the Cuban president stressed that the departure of the young fighters from the Model Prison, at the then Isle of Pines (Isle of Youth since 1978), was caused by popular pressure on the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952 -1959).
Russia and Cuba are strengthening their collaboration in a wide range of areas, today marking the 60th anniversary of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the two States.
Cuba's ambassador to Russia, Gerardo Peñalver, in an exclusive interview with Prensa Latina news agency, said that in the last five years there has been a substantial advance in bilateral ties in all areas, including trade, scientific-technical, cultural, educational and humanitarian.
French organizations in solidarity with Cuba are outlining a platform to promote the proposed awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Henry Reeve Medical Brigades for their support in the fight against the COVID-19.
In statements to Prensa Latina, Rose-Marie Lou, in charge of policy for the Cuba Linda association, that requested this recognition for the island's health professionals, pointed out that other groups, including "France-Cuba" and "Cuba Cooperation France" had already joined.
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