Cuban Sappers in White Lab Coats
- Patricio Montesinos -
Cuban medical team arrives in Surinam, March 20, 2020, to assist in
combatting COVID-19.
It is always said that sappers risk their lives
to save the lives of thousands of people when they clear minefields in
conflict situations.
In pandemic times, such as the one humanity is
suffering today with COVID-19, it is the doctors and health workers who
take on this dangerous work for the benefit of millions of citizens
around the world.
The members of Cuba's famous peaceful army of
white lab coats are currently true sappers, because they go to the most
complex corners of planet Earth to fight the deadly disease face to
face.
They do so in Africa, Europe, and Latin America
and the Caribbean, defying the risks they face in the line of fire on
the front line of the battle against COVID-19.
Their only goal is to defeat death, and they
accomplish it with conviction, humanism and great altruism, legacies
left to them by the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel
Castro, and the Moncada generation, the one that on July 26, 1953 took
up the struggle for the island's true independence.
There is no doubt that the members of the Cuban
Medical Brigades who serve in many countries around the world are
genuine heirs of those young people who, led by Fidel, assaulted the
Moncada Barracks 67 years ago, the heroic deed that led to the triumph
of the Revolution on January 1, 1959.
On the Day of National Rebellion in the Caribbean
nation, this July 26, the sappers in white lab coats deserve special
recognition. Far from their homeland and their families, they defeated
the pandemic and gave another lesson in dignity and courage.
Through their example, they have also defused the
campaigns to discredit Cuban medical collaboration, orchestrated by the
United States, and at the same time they have further hoisted the flags
of solidarity with Cuba and against the increased blockade that
Washington imposes on the island.
Today, from all regions of the world, there are
calls for Cuba’s doctors and health workers to be awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for the humanitarian work they have done over many
years.
And of course the Cuban sappers in white lab coats
deserve that laurel and many more, but they already have the most
valuable one, the recognition of the peoples and the millions of people
whom they have cured and brought back to life.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 29 - August 8, 2020
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