{"id":1171,"date":"2020-04-03T08:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2021-11-25T16:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T16:33:23","slug":"doctors-not-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/doctors-not-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors, not bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Excerpts from Fidel\u2019s 2003 speech in Buenos Aires: Our country does not drop bombs on other people\u2026 our country does not possess nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, or biological weapons. Our country&#8217;s tens of thousands of scientists and doctors have been educated in the idea of saving lives<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-1-1 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Doctors-not-Bombs.mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/546232881?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I am an optimist, I think this world can be saved, in spite of the mistakes made, in spite of the immense, hegemonic powers that have been created, because I believe ideas prevail over force.\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our country does not drop bombs on other people, nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities; our country does not possess nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, or biological weapons. Our country&#8217;s tens of thousands of scientists and doctors have been educated in the idea of saving lives. It would absolutely contradict this concept to put a scientist or a doctor to work to produce substances, bacteria or viruses to kill other human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allegations that Cuba is doing research on biological weapons have even been made. In our country, research is conducted to cure diseases as severe as meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis, to produce vaccines with genetic engineering techniques, or, something of great importance, to discover vaccines or therapeutic formulas through molecular immunology; some of which can prevent and others cure. We are moving forward along this path. This is the pride of our doctors and our research centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tens of thousands of Cuban doctors have provided internationalist services in the most remote and inhospitable places. I once said that we could not and would never carry out preventive or surprise attacks against any dark corner of the world; but rather that our country could send needed doctors to the darkest corners of the world. Doctors, not bombs. Doctors, not smart weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from Fidel\u2019s 2003 speech in Buenos Aires: Our country does not drop bombs on other people\u2026 our country does not possess nuclear weapons, chemical<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/doctors-not-bombs\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101012,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2639,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-rejects-proliferation-of-nuclear-tests\/","url_meta":{"origin":1171,"position":0},"title":"Cuba rejects proliferation of nuclear tests","author":"Editorial Team","date":"August 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez rejected on Saturday, on the International Day against Nuclear Tests, the proliferation of such actions and the increase in funds for their development.On his Twitter account, the foreign minister condemned the increase in 'subcritical' tests, a modality used to obtain information on atomic weapons. 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