Gone with the wind! ¡Lo que el viento se llevó!
A few days ago, I read a letter from a Venezuelan father thanking Fidel Castro because his daughter had graduated as an M.D. in Cuba. It has been the policy of the Cuban regime to bring students from all Latin America to study in Cuba while Cuban citizens suffer all kinds of hardships, not excluding lacking the most basic things, like toilet paper, or any paper for that matter. I grew up under a system where a pen was a commodity, a notebook or a pencil sharpener luxuries. We all experienced the ration card. It allowed ridiculous rations of coffee, salt, sugar, and so on. The system has deteriorated to the point where more than two million Cubans have escaped, many of them risking- and losing- their lives in the Florida Straight or the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the propaganda machine lives on, feeding on the poor and ignorant of this world. Cubans were recently asked by dictator Raul Castro to “tighten their belts”: that means more misery, more humiliation and violation of the most elementary human rights. In today’s Cubanet, the following article narrates the poor condition of medicine in Cuba. The Marxist Paradise where Europeans go by the millions to take advantage of the cheapest prostitutes on earth. These tourists turn a blind eye to the suffering of most Cubans to feed their sexual hunger and depravity. While some pay to go, Cubans die to leave the Island-prison where all forms of freedom are suppressed. Homosexuals have been placed in concentration camps (UMAP), dissidents are persecuted and beaten, tortured and murdered in Castro’s jails. A general and very real paranoia has taken over the land where any expression of dissent is expressed with hands signs. All this while foreigners study in luxury at the expense of the Cuban citizen. As well as a medical career, these young men and women from Latin America and Africa get a brainwash, thanks to the formidable propaganda machine the Communists have become masters in manipulating. Just look at the picture below and see what a hospital in Cuba looks like- a hospital for Cuban citizens, that is. One day, just like it happened with The Iron Curtain, the Cuban dictatorship will crumble and the truth will explode in the face of those who have supported this regime of terror.
Lo que el viento se llevó
Miguel Iturria Savón
LA HABANA, Cuba, julio (www.cubanet.org) – De los derechos sociales, tal vez el más caro sea la atención a la salud en cualquier parte del mundo. Garantizarlo implica un costo para el Estado, las instituciones sanitarias y para los propios pacientes y sus familiares. El gobierno de Cuba lo sabe y trata de garantizarlo a todos los niveles, pero no dispone de los recursos financieros recibidos desde la antigua Unión Soviética hasta 1990. El problema se acrecienta con la exportación de miles de profesionales que trabajan para el Estado en más de veinte naciones, lo cual desestructura los servicios médicos dentro del país, pues tan “humanitaria tarea” sacrifica a nuestros ciudadanos y multiplica los problemas del sector.
Las expectativas creadas por la propaganda oficial parecen un cuento. Los logros de los años ochenta son cosa del pasado. El sistema médico cubano involuciona, aunque las autoridades insisten en presentarlo como estandarte de legitimidad internacional. Basta con asistir a cualquier consultorio, clínica u hospital para percatarnos del caos, a pesar del esfuerzo del personal por cubrir las vacantes y las carencias técnicas y sanitarias.
Ni la solidaridad internacional ni la graduación de médicos emergentes en cualquier rincón del país resuelve el laberinto creado por las carencias y por la estrategia de exportación con fines políticos. Nuestros galenos prefieren cumplir “misión internacionalista” que atender a los familiares y vecinos; se sienten más reconocidos en otros países que en las instalaciones cubanas, donde reciben un salario simbólico y laboran sin los recursos imprescindibles.
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