CARACAS, Venezuela - This time there were million, and the name of Venezuela is repeated as the recipient of a new batch of Cuban COVID-19 vaccines. News of the island’s solidarity with this and other nations has traveled the world before, and frequently.
Peoples without access in sufficient quantities to the vaccines they need, to protect their population from the pandemic, place their hopes on Cuba, their sister country which is the first in Latin America to create its own to battle the SARS-COV-2 virus, despite facing the planet’s longest and fiercest blockade.
Is the news becoming so commonplace that the million doses of Soberana Plus, received here at dawn January 30, went unnoticed by the mainstream media? But the event is made no less significant by omission. Some remain silent because of their selfishness, convenience and even shame.
Most of the millionaires who exploit the people lack human resources; they produce vaccines to increase their fortunes. They cannot be pleased with the contrast provided by a Caribbean island, the only low-income nation that has its own antidotes to control COVID-19, and that generously shares them with those in need and have no way of acquiring them. Vaccines from a Cuba that is besieged, but rich in kindness, save peoples, and make us proud.
