European activists who traveled to Cuba as part of the Let Cuba Breathe campaign visited the Finlay Institute of Vaccines to learn about the vaccine research and production projects that have given Cuba a prominent role in the international scientific community.
“Thank you for the hope and certainty you are giving us: Cuba is not alone!” declared the institute’s deputy director, emphasizing the symbolic value of international solidarity.
Solidarity and concrete aid also came from the United States, with a delegation composed of doctors, lawyers, trade unionists, professors, and activists organized by the peace group CodePink in collaboration with the Progressive International and Cuban Americans for Cuba. The delegation brought medicines and medical supplies to Cuba for hospitals and healthcare facilities.
At the solidarity meeting held at the Convention Center in Havana, attended by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, Medea Benjamín, co-founder of CodePink, stated: “I am horrified by what our government is doing to the people of Cuba. That is why it is important for us to be here as U.S. citizens and to affirm that Trump will not take over Cuba to do whatever he wants with it.”
Photo: Enrique González (Enro)/ Cubadebate.
Medea Benjamin had already condemned the U.S. embargo in no uncertain terms. “We refuse to remain silent while our government carries out a despicable campaign of economic warfare, depriving a country of fuel, medicine, and essential goods.”
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