President Correa describes Cuba
as the world champion of solidarity and humanism

Anneris Ivette Leyva García

AFTER months of genetic and psychological-social research throughout one third of Ecuadorian territory, 192 Cuban collaborators, members of the Manuela Espejo solidarity mission, have returned to Cuba to celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Revolution with their families and the nation as a whole.

Moments before leaving, after having studied disabilities in more than 78,000 people and visiting almost 380,000 homes – where they also provided neurophysiologic, psychological, angiological, and otolaryngological care – the Cuban doctors received the gratitude of the Ecuadorian people and government. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa described Cuba as the world champion of solidarity and humanism.

Hilda Hernández Madera, an official from the Ministry of Public Heath in charge of designing strategies and preparing the methodologies to consolidate the study, described the opportunity to be part of this brigade as attaining a doctorate in principle, ethics, and humanism. She assured Fidel, Raúl, and heath officials that in the midst of such difficult geographical and climate conditions, it was evident that the future of the Revolution is assured.

Speaking of how the Cuban collaborators withstood all the difficulties they had to confront, Marcia Cobas, MINSAP deputy minister, congratulated the brigade on their results and reaffirmed that the ALBA mission, based on values of solidarity instilled by Fidel and Raúl, was made material in them and knew no borders.