Carlos Lazo arrived with his Puentes de Amor in Guantánamo with a ton of powdered milk, medicines, and some supplies for the more than 200 beds at the Pedro Agustín Pérez Pediatric Hospital.
The professor says that he would have preferred that it not be necessary to come with a donation like this, that the ideal is for the country to be able to find and buy medicines, milk, the essentials on its own..., without the criminal ballast of the blockade.
And she asks us to talk about Code Pink, in the person of Medea Benjamin, because she has also joined the initiative in favor of the Cuban people, against indecency. “The Americans have to know that Guantanamo is also this hospital, they are the doctors who save children, the generous, fighting, good people,” she tells us.
She points out that the fight now is to remove the island from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism. Someone says milk yes, lock no, and the chorus ignites. There are a dozen people between Americans and Cuban Americans who mingle, ask questions, are interested.
After the Hospital, the supporters arrive at El Porvenir, the Home for children without family protection in the Rubén López Sabariego neighborhood, "and the truth is that they have changed the name from filial protection to family, because these children may lack many things, but love is abundant here”.
Chacho, the only child who lives there at the moment, laughs and sneaks away as soon as he can to immerse himself again in a cell phone, in music. Visitors go to detail, to the rooms, to the computer room, to the orchard waiting for a rain that will fall a few hours later.
Professor Carlos Lazo presented another donation, a bread making machine. The next stop is the Provincial Museum, especially the room dedicated to the Base occupied by the United States at the entrance to the Bay..., there are plans for more donations, more equipment, more love.
Taken from Venceremos
Text: Lilibeth Alfonso Martinez
Photos: Leonel Escalona Furones
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