La soberbia imperial: El Norte contra Cuba

Amigos:

Me parece que este ofensivo editorial de Lancet del sábado 12-8-06 (Planning for Cuba's transition), que les adjunto, merece muchas respuestas. de todo el mundo. 

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Los invito, porque el riesgo de que no publiquen las respuestas de los cubanos es alta, según verán las restricciones que ponen de no publicar nada "obsceno, que parezca libelo u ofensivo"

Debajo les adjunto primer borrador enviado por el colega Dr. Pedro López Saura.

Afectos

Alfredo Espinosa desde Cienfuegos

Dear Sir:

It is surprising that such a rigorous and serious journal like yours, publish such an editorial, based, indeed on an absolute ignorance of what is happening or can happen in Cuba. Cuba's healthcare system already made a very large transition in 1959 to the best indexes in the so called "third world", even in some cases better than some of the so called "first world" (please look at WHO reports), particularly as compared to the United States. In fact, if the Lancet pretends to show and study how healthcare can be improved in developing countries, it should look at Cuba's case as an example (which has been never taken into account). No one in Cuba wishes to go back. At the same time the Lancet should not ignore the effort that Cuba does to improve healthcare in other developing countries. For example, in its reports about the recent Pakistan earthquake, there has been no mention to the more than 2000 Cuban doctors and nurses that worked in the very intensively damaged zones for more than 6 months. This has been highly acknowledged by the Pakistani people and government. At present there are more than 30000 Cuban doctors throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia, working in the mountains and rural zones, giving care to people that otherwise are not reached by their countries' mostly private healthcare systems. The main medical journal in the world should pay attention to the so called "Operación Milagro" (Miracle Operation) in which more than  200 000 blind patients from Cuba, Venezuela, and other Latin American and Caribbean countries have recovered vision. Our closest neighbor should dedicate the 80 million USD to improve the health of more than 40 million people they have without health coverage. On the contrary this sum will be used in Cuba to promote uneasiness and terrorism. I suggest the Lancet to review its editorials with the same rigour it does with the articles sent there.

No lo han publicado como prometen:

A lo mejor lo consideran:  "obscene, libellous, or could cause offence. Comments that are not clearly written, and/or contain spelling inaccuracies"

que son los que dicen que rechazan.