"South African aviation on the ground and its tanks flying," is the phrase loaded with sarcasm with which Fidel, speaking to a group of diplomats from non-aligned countries gathered in Havana, described what happened on March 23, 1988 in the Angolan locality of Cuito Cuanavale.
Five years ago, the visit of a president of the United States for the first time in more than eight decades seemed to indicate that the two countries were finally finding a way to coexistence.
On March 19, 1998, Prensa Latina reported an unusual event from Geneva: Cuba, the country that the United States had been describing since 1982 as a sponsor of terrorism, was acknowledged as a victim of this type of actions.
Those who did everything possible to discredit and prevent Cuban medical cooperation during Donald Trump's administration must have been surprised to hear the information provided by Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, Director of Cuba's Central Unit for Medical Cooperation, when he said that 25 brigades with some 2,500 Cuban collaborators are still fighting COVID-19 around the world. Dr. Jorge said that in the last six decades, and in spite of the U.S. blockade, Cuban health professionals have treated nearly one third of the global population.