“Who better to deserve this recognition than Cuban doctors who make enormous personal sacrifices, far from their families and homes, their culture and their community, to work in difficult and dangerous conditions for months, and even years?”, Yaffe wondered.
London, September 7, 2020 - The Cuban Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Barbara Elena Montalvo Álvarez, and Aurora Fernández González, PhD., Advisor to the Minister of Higher Education, inaugurated today the 23rd Cuba Research Forum Annual Conference, to be held online on September 7 and 8 in this capital city under the slogan "60 years of the Revolution: Reflections and interdisciplinary views on its society and culture".
This donation was purchased by "Cubanos en UK" and was made possible thanks to all the people and organizations that, in solidarity, contributed to the collection of £26,000 pounds last May.
In the afternoon of July 21, the Bolivian de facto authorities publicly informed that the facility known as “Clínica del Colaborador” (Cooperation Workers’ Clinic), which is owned by the Republic of Cuba and had been raided by law enforcement authorities on November 15, 2019, would be fitted out to assist Bolivian COVID-19 patients.
Statement by the British Cuba Solidarity Campaign in response to US threats to medical cooperation programmes
The Cuba Solidarity Campaign condemns the ongoing campaign by the US government to undermine Cuba’s international medical cooperation programmes. The most recent manifestation of this is the bill introduced by republican senators Rick Scott (FL), Marco Rubio (FL) and Senator Ted Cruz (TX) on 17 June, which aims to classify Cuban medical brigades as victims of human trafficking, and calls for punitive sanctions against countries which work with them.