While Hurting Cubans!!
A 74-year-old Californian battling lung cancer, Judy Ingels, this month broke a U. S. law -- the U. S. embargo against Cuba that, for over half-a-century, has made everyday Americans the only people in the world without the freedom to travel to the Caribbean island. The embargo is one of countless U. S. laws easily passed in the 535-member U. S Congress by a handful of counter-revolutionary types allied with a handful of miscreant politicians. While such laws have surely hurt Cuba, they also hurt Americans and thus such laws currently are condemned internationally by a 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations, but still they persist decade after decade. Judy broke the embargo law by spending six days in Cuba so she could be treated with a renowned cancer drug -- Cimavax -- that was invented by Cuba's equally renowned medical scientists. This week -- on April 20th, 2017 -- the BBC in London told the world about Judy's life-saving, law-breaking trip to Cuba. With rare exceptions, the mainstream U. S. media doesn't touch stories that might shed positive lights on Cuba, so as not to displease a few counter-revolutionaries in Miami and Congress.
Judy Ingles was accompanied to Cuba by her husband Bill and her daughter Cindy, so they very knowingly broke the embargo law too. But Judy told the BBC, "I'm not worried. For the first time, I have real hope." The Ingles family took a large supply of Cimavax back to California with them. All healthcare for Cubans on the island is free, including what many of them know as the "miracle cancer drug" Cimavax.
The BBC reported that this now very healthy-looking Cuban lady, Lucretia de Jesus, was incapacitated and bound to a wheelchair with a severe case of lung and liver cancer. After being treated with Cimavax, Lucretia now regularly walks up and down five flights of stairs and is now planning a trip to Spain.
Lucretia de Jesus's doctor is Elia Neninger. She told the BBC, "I never thought I would would work on something that would improve the lives of so many people. I have stage-four lung cancer patients who are still alive 10 years after their diagnosis." Cuba produces more doctors per capital than any other country.
One of America's top cancer experts, Dr. Kelvin Lee at the famed Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, told the BBC that he not only believes Cimavax successfully treats cancer but that it might also prevent cancer. He said: "If we could vaccinate the high-risk smokers to prevent them from developing cancer, that would have an enormous public health input both in the United States and the world." The BBC said Cuba's renowned biotechnology industry -- which has developed world-famed cancer, diabetes and other drugs -- was "nurtured by former President Fidel Castro since the very early 1980s."
After former U. S. President Barack Obama so bravely opened many long-closed doors to Cuba, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took a Trade Mission to Cuba that included Dr. Candace Johnson. She is the President and CEO of the Roswell Cancer Institute in Buffalo. Dr. Johnson got permission from Cuba to use its unique cancer drug on her cancer patients in the United States but as of late April-2017 it has yet to be approved by America's Food & Drug Administration, so that's why Judy Ingles and her family broke the U. S. embargo law and went to Cuba to get treated and return to California with a large supply of Cimavax.
This week's BBC article about Judy Ingels and Cuba's cancer drug shines more foreign light on why America's long-standing Cuban policy is designed to sate the revenge, economic and political motives of a few while it harms everyone else. The Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo doesn't have to fight the Cuban government to get access to Cimavax, but it still needs permission from the United States.
When it comes to supporting the goals of Candace Johnson and cancer patients like Judy Ingles, most Americans are not supposed to be brave enough, smart enough, caring enough or patriotic enough to choose between such decent American women and the embargo-promoters in Miami and Congress.
Since 1962 the United States has had only one President -- Mr. Obama -- with both the guts and the decency to sincerely try to end the embargo and other bellicose assaults on totally innocent Cubans...as well as totally innocent Americans like Judy Ingles and millions of Cuban-Americans, most of whom also oppose the embargo. But America's Cuban policy, especially since the famed Cuban Revolution victory in 1959, has never considered majority opinion in America or the near-unanimity of opinion worldwide.
A simple but unasked question in America: If Cuba has a cancer drug that could quite possibly instantly and greatly help American cancer patients, what is the rationale still preventing that from happening?
Is the answer "The embargo?"
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