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Cuban Doctors leave for
affected areas of Bolivia
SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA, February 3 (PL).—
Members of the Cuban medical brigade who have gone
to Bolivia to help the victims of the heavy rains
left today for the affected areas to initiate their
labors.
The leader of the group Daniel Posadas, informed
Prensa Latina that 140 professionals are to be
distributed in a total of 47 towns in Santa Cruz
province.
At least two doctors will go to each of the
communities and larger groups have been formed for
more populated areas.
Each brigadista will take two backpacks with 13
kilograms of medicines and work materials, he
explained, while highlighting the warm welcome they
have received from the Bolivians.
The Cuban professionals arrived yesterday in this
city in eastern Bolivia, with Luis Felipe Vázquez,
the Cuban ambassador to Bolivia, and were received
by María Luisa Ramos, deputy minister of
International Economic Relations, and Santa Cruz
City Councilor Oswaldo Pérez from the governing
Movement Toward Socialism (MAS).
Subsequently the ambassador met with President Evo
Morales and handed him a donation from the Cuban
government of $100,000 in cash.
With emotion, the head of state thanked President
Fidel Castro and the people of Cuba and Rubén Costas,
the prefect of Santa Cruz, affirmed that he was very
touched by the help and asked the diplomat to
transmit thanks from the people of Santa Cruz to his
government.
During the welcome event for the doctors at Santa
Cruz airport, Peredo, younger brother of the
legendary guerrillas Inti and Coco, combatants in
Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara’s guerrilla army,
expressed his thanks for the Cuban solidarity in his
quality as “Bolivariano and Guevariano.”
For his part, Ambassador Vázquez noted that the
Cuban doctors have a wide experience due to having
worked in Pakistan, Venezuela, Guatemala, El
Salvador, Haiti and other countries, and have
brought 20 mobile hospitals ready for installation
wherever they are needed.
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