Reflections
by Comrade Fidel
WHAT
OCCURRED TO ME
Today, the
presence of the Flu A (H1N1) virus was announced in
What was the
Mexican president complaining about regarding the measures Cuba adopted,
according to the established norms and without the least intention of affecting
our sister nation of Mexico? We were far
from imagining that the epidemic would break out there and in the
Mexican
authorities did not inform the world of the presence of the flu virus while
they were awaiting Obama’s visit, and now they are
threatening to suspend President Calderon’s visit, something that had been
already done earlier because of other understandable and non-flu epidemic
related reasons. At this point, we and
dozens of other countries are paying the piper and on top of that we are being
accused of using harmful measures against
“I was indeed going to go to Cuba in these
days or weeks but since Cuba has cancelled flights to Mexico”, declared the
Mexican president, “perhaps I won’t be able to do so, it could be one of the
unforeseen consequences that do not have sufficient technical bases,” Calderón added, according to information from an important
European news agency.
The next day,
another news agency on this continent printed the same thing. The authorities of that country were not even
clear about that. Now it would seem that
we have been unfair, acting without technical bases and hostile towards the
Mexican people.
The Mexican
students are in no way even minimally guilty; they are excellent people, as are
the Cuban professors and workers at the school, strictly carrying out the
appropriate control measures dictated by the circumstances.
What is most
fair is that the Mexican people be informed that in the Final Declaration of
the NAM Ministerial Meeting, three of its paragraphs state:
“The
Ministers of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries …express their deep concern
and solidarity with the Government and people of Mexico given the serious
situation created by the swine influenza outbreak in that country.
“The
Ministers request the World Health Organization and the international financial
organizations to provide full logistical and financial support to the
Government and people of
“In this regard, the Ministers call upon the
World Health Organization in coordination with the Mexican authorities, to
ensure a systematic and proper follow-up in order to effectively contain the
further spread of this epidemic.”
I am merely
expressing ideas that occur to me as the news kept coming.
Fidel Castro Ruz