By Patricio Montesinos
Sappers are always said to risk their lives for the benefit of saving the lives of thousands of people, when they disable minefields in conflict settings.
In times of pandemic, like the one humanity is suffering today with the Covid-19, it is the doctors and health personnel who undertake this dangerous work for millions of citizens around the world.
The members of the famous Cuban White gowns Pacific Army are currently true sappers, because they go to the most complex corners of the planet earth to fight face to face the deadly disease.
They do so in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, defying the risks to which they are exposed in the first trench, or red line, of the battle against Covid-19.
Their only objective is to defeat death, and they fulfill it with conviction, humanism and great altruism, legacies left to them by the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and the generation of Moncada, the one that on July 26th, 1953, retaken the fight for the true independence of the Caribbean island.
Undoubtedly, the members of the Cuban Medical Brigades (BMC) that provide their services in many countries around the world are genuine heirs of those young people who, led by Fidel, assaulted the Moncada Garrison 67 years ago, the heroic feat that led to the victory. of the Revolution, on January 1st, 1959, in the largest of the Antilles.
On the Day of National Rebellion in the Caribbean nation, this July 26th, the White sanitary gown sappers deserve special recognition, who, far from their homeland and their relatives, defeat the pandemic, and give another lesson in dignity and courage.
With their example they also deactivate the discredit campaigns orchestrated from the United States against Cuban medical collaboration, and at the same time they have raised even more the flags of solidarity with Cuba and against the severe blockade that Washington imposes on the Island.
Today, from all regions of the world, it is claimed that doctors and health personnel from the Greater Antilles are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the humanitarian work they have carried out over many years.
And of course, the Cuban sappers in white gowns deserve that award and many more, but they already have the most valuable, the recognition of the countries and millions of people whom they have healed and restored their lives.
"An Island on a Continent" 