Yet, these are not the only organizations and political actors currently honoring the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, whose legacy remains alive on Uruguayan soil.

  His speech before thousands of Montevideo residents is also historic. “What he said back then sounds as if he were warning us about the times we live in today,” a witness to that address told Prensa Latina.

  At a time when meningitis cases are rising here, people recall the thousands of vaccines sent by Cuba to tackle the deadly meningitis B epidemic that struck Uruguay in 2000. Those vaccines were produced at Havana’s Finlay Institute, a scientific institution that cherishes Fidel’s initiatives and the path he charted.

  Fidel Castro is being remembered on social media in Uruguay; meanwhile, the Cuban Embassy’s celebration marking the centenary of his birth will take place at the headquarters of the Cuban medical brigade—the team that restores sight to patients at the “Jose Marti” Eye Hospital.

  It is perhaps the most fitting place to honor the creator of Operation Miracle and the Latin American School of Medicine—a leader under whose influence Cuba exported doctors and teachers rather than bombs. And that is something the warmongers never forgave the Cuban leader for.

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