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Alex López is moved when he recalls leaving the island as a teenager, practically forced by his parents, and insists that his homeland was never far from his thoughts, throughout the 69 years of his life.
Etched in his memory is July 4, 1962, the day he boarded Pan American Airways Flight 422, at 11:45 am. As he climbed the stairway, he wanted to return, and took a few steps back without turning around to see his mother, who had warned him not to take a final look.
Some 600,000 Cubans have provided medical assistance in 165 countries.
May 23, 1963 marked a milestone in Cuba's history. On that day, a plane transported 29 doctors, four stomatologists, 14 nurses and seven health technicians to Algeria to provide permanent services to that people.
This was the first Cuban internationalist medical mission, which in 60 years has been present in 165 countries, with more than 600,000 collaborators, according to Dr. Michael Cabrera, director of the Central Unit for Medical Collaboration (UCCM).
"Our generation will always celebrate the opportunity we had to live the time of two giants of the Revolution and Latin American integration: Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez", was the first post in X of the First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, yesterday, on the 11th anniversary of the physical departure of Commander Hugo Chávez Frías, leader of the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela.
The flag of the three blue stripes and the lone star was raised, by the friends of Cuba in the world, in the constant actions against the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States more than 60 years ago.
In the year 2023, the solidarity groups demanded the lifting of all coercive measures, the exclusion of Cuba from the spurious list of countries sponsoring terrorism, the normalization of relations between the two countries and the possibility of greater bilateral exchange.
Centro Habana’s Trillo Park was the scene of a passionate debate, a tángana, yesterday, where the dignity of the homeland was reaffirmed with condemnation of the most recent U.S. manipulations designed to discredit our country, energetically rejected by thousands of young people, along with the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
This was a tángana in defense of their Revolution facing a new attack.
