Cuba Battles Coronavirus

As The U.S. Strengthens Blockade!!

     Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel chaired this discussion about the Coronavirus with top medical experts on the island. Asked if the U. S. "might possibly loosen the blockade during the COVID-19 pandemic," President Diaz-Canel replied: "To the contrary, the Cubans like Mauricio Claver-Carone in charge of the Trump administration's effort to regain control of Cuba have no pity for Cuban families on the island. Instead, taking advantage of disasters to further punish everyday Cubans is a policy aimed at turning Cubans here against their government while, as we know, making people like Claver-Carone rich and powerful on the expected bones of our people. As the Coronavirus threatens us, the blockade threatens us even more. We must deal with COVID-19 with that knowledge as we move forward."

     In the discussion above, it was revealed that expected COVID-19 patients are being treated with a medicine known as Recombinant Interferon Alfa 2B. It was produced by Cuba's Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology {CIGB} and its Director, Eulogio Pimentel said, "We think we are capable of satisfying not only possible demand in Cuba for this proven medicine, but also the requests that we are getting from other countries. So far, 15 countries have asked for supplies."

Meanwhile:

    The Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara has been released from 13 days of confinement. International human rights groups and U. S. Cuban Counter Revolutionaries had raved about Otero Alcantara's imprisonment, which the Cuban government maintained was supported by most Cubans on the island. But the release apparently was mostly related to one major complaint from a beloved Cuban.

     Cuba's most famed folk singer and songwriter, 73-year-old Silvio Rodriguez, wrote these words on his blog about Otero Alcantara's arrest: "We are giving a very sad impression of backwardness." That sentence predicated Otero Alcantara's release.

      For decades on the island, Silvio Rodriguez has been a prime supporter of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, and Silvio openly denounces the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia regime that preceded it. So, one sentence from Silvio about the incarceration of dissident artist Otero Alcantara was instrumental in the dissident's release.

      Cuba still staunchly maintains that Luis Manual Otero Alcantara and others like him are "massively funded by anti-Cubans in the U. S. Congress, all Republican White Houses, and unchecked political operatives in Little Havana and in Newark." One thing that recently irked Cuban officials was when Otero Alcantara allegedly video-taped "the debasing of the Cuban flag in his bathroom."

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