U.S. to Cuba - Interview with Aleida Guevara
Aleida Guevara, daughter of "What ," I honor his friendship, he sent an appeal to remove the ' U.S. embargo on Cuba . The embargo also prevents crime because the importation of essential medicines, hard since 1962 and effectively prevents the trade of Cuba with all the countries that have relations with the U.S.. The little Cuba must really be scared of the giant U.S. if the embargo has lasted half a century. " El embargo" has been condemned by ' UN in October 2010, who has asked to withdraw by 187 votes to 2 against (Israel and the U.S.). Obama lift the embargo. It would be a nice gesture.
Interview with Aleida Guevara, daughter of Che.
"We are not asking for anything in return for what we do. We received a lot of solidarity by the Italian people. Perhaps one of the strongest movements of Solidarity with Cuba is just the Italian one. The point is to let everyone know about the reality we live . Unfortunately the information is very poor and reaches people so deeply distorted. It's very important to know that we could do much more, we could be even more supportive if we lift the economic embargo.
The way in which the Cuban people is resisting a brutal embargo for over 48 years is unique in human history. There is talk of the embargo, but do not know how to live because of the embargo. A simple example for a group of Cuban children suffering from leukemia. With an organization of solidarity of the Swiss name " mediCuba " unable to obtain the raw material and produces cytostatic drugs. We can synthesize them. However, we do not have medicines to counteract the side effects of cytostatics. For a long time we have leukemic children who had vomited twenty times a day because we could not give them the required medication. This is just one of the effects of the embargo. The drug in question is a U.S. patent. Europe can synthesize it, any pharmaceutical company can produce it in Europe, but there it can sell. If a company sells it there, the U.S. imposes sanctions : withdrawing American capital invested, or possibly banning the export of farm products to the U.S. market. It is an unequal battle since we are only a Cuba 11 million, while in the U.S. there are 400 million potential customers. The problem is
we have a strong need to find medications and have the money to buy them, we are not begging for anything. We are asking the right to buy drugs like any other country in the world. This we are prevented by the embargo on every aspect of our economy. Imagine if we succeed in providing health services to those in need despite the embargo, what we could do more without the embargo. The question is simply this: adequate information to people in the world to bring their solidarity with Cuba and exert pressure on the U.S. government to be eliminated this criminal embargo. "
Thanks Katia Fiterman for the interview.
(source Beppe Grillo)
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