Cubaminrex, 26 April 2020. One thousand 238 Cuban health professionals, integrated into 21 “Henry Reeve” medical brigades, have left for 20 nations in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East, in the midst of the pandemic, to help contain those affected territories the spread of a virus, which we already know, will be won only with cooperation and solidarity.
Cubanews, 13 April 2020. The Cuban-American teacher Carlos Lazo, a veteran of the Iraq war, has addressed President Donald Trump directly to ask him to “extend a hand of solidarity” to the people of Cuba and lift the sanctions against the island at this time of crisis in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.