Havana, Jun 12 (Agencies) A new donation of essential products for liver transplants to eight Cuban children who are waiting to be operated arrived this Sunday, thanks to the efforts of solidarity groups based in the United States.
The donation arrived in Havana in the hands of representatives of the Bridges of Love project, headed by Cuban-American Carlos Lazo,which brings together emigrants from the island living in the northern nation, and the American Medea Benjamín, leader of the Code Pink organization, accompanied by other representatives of both groups.
According to Lazo, this product, which is now in Cuba, was possible to acquire thanks to the good will of people who donated the 25,000 dollars needed to buy it, since the laws that regulate the economic, commercial and financial blockade that the White House applied to the island for six decades prohibit its acquisition through the market between the two countries.
Upon her arrival on the Caribbean island through the José Martí international airport in Havana, Medea Benjamín highlighted the effort currently being made in the United States to end the blockade and reaffirmed the will to continue contributing to the Cuban people.
«The pressure we are putting on the United States Congress and the White House is aimed at trying to end the blockade imposed on the largest of the Antilles for more than 60 years,» the American activist told Prensa Latina.
She also assured that, while this is achieved, the most important effort will be aimed at continuing to help in the donation of syringes, food, medicines and continue fighting for her -she said- «to end the blockade».
For his part, Cuban-American Carlos Lazo, coordinator of Puentes de Amor, explained that the efforts are not only aimed at obtaining this important essential product for carrying out child liver transplants.
«We continue to obtain other necessary things, we are looking for help, and for that we continue to move, contributing our grain of sand and demonstrating that the Cuban community residing abroad is in favor of families in their homeland,» said the community leader.
«That love for the Cuban family motivates us and fills us with gratitude, and I remember what our National Hero, José Martí (1853-1895), said, that «there is nothing better than loving someone who has something to be thankful for,» and We love our people and we are willing to do whatever it takes precisely for that gratitude and what we owe to that people, added Lazo.
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