HAVANA, Cuba, May 23 (ACN) Cuba recalls today the beginning of a history of solidarity led by its health workers, who made up the island’s first medical contingent 61 years ago in Algeria.
“The departure to that sister country of a medical brigade on May 23, 1963 marked the birth of a work of endless love that the Cubans offered to the world,” Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Party, wrote in a post on X.
“Since then, Cuba has given the world doctors, not bombs,” he added, evoking the words of the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, which have become the motto of Cuba’s cooperation.
On his end, José Ángel Portal Miranda, Minister o