Cuban FM denounces United States' lies about medical missions
Havana, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced on Wednesday that the United States repeats 'despicable lies against international medical cooperation programs' of the island.
On his Twitter account, the foreign minister said that the U.S. Department of State is intensifying the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba, and insists on slandering the solidarity aid that it provides to several countries.
In the context of Covid-19, they threaten other peoples' health instead of joining cooperative efforts for the good of all, he added.
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel also referred to the campaign of discredit promoted by Donald Trump's administration, and described that action as a deliberate deception.
The president addressed the issue on his Twitter profile, in which he shared an article of Cubadebate website analyzing a document by the U.S. Department of State entitled 'The truth about Cuba's medical missions.'
The text reveals that this new attack aims to hide the failure of the pressure campaign initiated more than a year ago by the United States to end Cuba's health missions.
They are trying to distort its nature and present it as what it is not, Yohana Tablada, author of the work and deputy director general of the United States' Directorate at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Cubadebate.
However, the opposite occurred, because today there are many more countries that, due to the positive experience and the results achieved, request Cuban medical services in their different modalities, she explained.