Despite U. S. Embargo!
{Thursday, May 11th, 2017}
{Thursday, May 11th, 2017}
This week -- May 9th, 2017 -- on the PBS News Hour anchor Judy Woodruff featured a report entitled "This Cuba Lung Cancer Drug Is Giving Some U. S. Patients Hope." She introduced Amy Guttman to tell it.
The PBS News Hour update on Cuba's lung cancer drug was reported from Green Bay, Wisconsin; Buffalo, New York; and Havana, Cuba by Amy Guttman. She interviewed 69-year-old Green Bay businessman Mick Phillips. Six years ago, suffering from advanced lung cancer, Mr. Phillips was told he had "maybe six months or a year to live." Despite the efforts of former President Barack Obama to correct many of America's draconian Batistiano-directed Congressional laws related to Cuba, since 1962 everyday pusillanimous Americans have been the only people in the entire world without the freedom to go to Cuba. Mr. Phillips is an everyday American except for the fact he owns his own business in Green Bay. Each year now he bravely visits Cuba to be treated with the island's CIMAvax lung cancer drug that the U. S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved. Mr. Phillips pays a Cuban doctor $50 for the treatment and takes a one-year, $5,000 supply of CIMAvax back home to Green Bay with him. With the treatment, Mr. Phillips told Amy Guttman that, because of CIMAvax, his lung cancer is now in "remission."
For her PBS report this week, Amy Guttman interviewed Dr. Kelvin Lee, renowned as one of America's top cancer experts and some say he is America's top cancer expert. Dr. Lee has visited Cuba to investigate CIMAvax and he told Amy Guttman why he is so interested in CIMAvax: "Because it is safe, very inexpensive, and easy to administer. You could use it, potentially, to prevent and not just treat lung cancer."
Shown here in the middle, Dr. Lee poses with part of his team at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. Dr. Lee heads Roswell Park's immunology department and his credentials as a cancer expert are nonpareil. Please note that he told Amy Guttman that he believes Cuba's CIMAvax treatment could potentially "prevent" and not just "treat" lung cancer. Unfortunately, Americans since 1959 have been programmed to ignore people like Dr. Lee if they ever make a positive statement regarding Cuba.
In her May 9th-2017 report on the PBS News Hour with Judy Woodruff, Amy Guttman said that CIMAvax, the lung cancer treatment developed by Cuba's renowned medical scientists, "Doesn't kill cancer cells. Instead, it engages the patient's immune system to reduce the protein that cancer thrives on." And Amy Guttman also added these exact words: "The embargo that prevented Cuba's access to American pharmaceuticals led the late President Fidel Castro to invest heavily in developing medicines and vaccines." I SUGGEST THAT YOU RE-READ THAT EXACT QUOTATION FOR THIS REASON: I don't believe, other than PBS, that there is a broadcast network or a mainstream newspaper in the United States that has the guts in May of 2017 to make such a statement regarding Fidel Castro or Cuba. That's because, since 1959, revengeful elements from the ousted Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba have dictated America's Cuban narrative and most of America's Cuban policies that currently have a 191-to-0 condemnation in the United Nations. And further, there are not many Americans in the United States today who have the courage to make or even agree with the aforementioned statement that Amy Guttman made in her insightful and important PBS report on CIMAvax yesterday. Two generations of American citizens and the mainstream U. S. media being afraid to challenge a handful of remnants from Cuba's long-ago Batista dictatorship way back in the 1950s shames decent and courageous Americans -- such as the man in Green Bay, Mick Phillips.
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| Next 3 Photos courtesy of Canada's CBC News. This is Mick Phillips returning to the U. S. with CIMAvax.   |
Cuba's CIMAvax lung cancer drug.
And by the way:
And by the way:
A letter from Raul Castro was hand-delivered in Saudi Arabia.
After accepting and reading the letter, the Saudis appeared quite pleased. A Saudi delegation had recently visited Cuba and President Castro's letter apparently was in reply to an investment proposal.
Last month -- on April 17th, 2017 -- King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia personally accepted the credentials of Cuba's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Orlando Requeijo Gual. Saudi Arabia maintains an embassy in Havana and Cuba's embassy in Riyadh is one of 149 Cuba has worldwide.
This, by the way, is the Cuban embassy in Washington, USA. It's a more beautiful building than the 7-story U. S. embassy in Havana. For 54 years, since 1961, the long-acrimonious U.S.-Cuban relationship had closed embassies in Havana and Washington until President Obama's Herculean normalization efforts reopened them in 2015. Now there are only three nations that the U. S. does not have diplomatic relations with. You can probably guess two -- Iran and North Korea. I bet you can't guess the third one, which is Bhutan. The latter is a landlocked nation located in the Himalayan Mountains between India and China.
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