The text refers to a meeting between USB leaders and members and Arasay D’Angelo, First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Italy, in charge of consular affairs, in the Calabrian city of Cosenza, where they expressed their gratitude for the Caribbean nation’s healthcare cooperation.
The document notes that the event, held at the union’s local headquarters, “was also an opportunity to reiterate our solidarity with Cuba, which, especially in the last few months, continues to face serious difficulties caused by the tightening of the US blockade.”
The statement notes, “It is necessary to implement all political, social, and cultural actions to strengthen international solidarity and support Cuba against the blockade, against all interference, and against the constant pressure of US imperialism.”
“We reaffirm the important contribution of Cuban doctors to our region, working in a fragile and chaotic healthcare system like ours,” the USB states, highlighting “the great humanity with which hundreds of Cuban professionals receive and care for us in our emergency rooms and hospitals.”
Regarding the pressure from the US government to try to end the Cuban medical mission in Italy, which has intensified in the last few days, they state that “as a union and as citizens, we have no intention of yielding to the dictates of authoritarian US imperialism.”
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