{"id":3360,"date":"2020-12-10T21:59:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2021-01-02T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T14:27:57","slug":"not-just-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/not-just-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just anyone \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fidel-Castro-BW.jpg?resize=747%2C498&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fidel-Castro-BW.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fidel-Castro-BW.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fidel-Castro-BW.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fidel-Castro-BW.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fidel-Castro-BW.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><figcaption> Fidel Castro  (Photo by Jung\/ullstein bild via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Not just anyone brings down a dictatorship with 20 men and 7 rifles in defiance of the North American Empire.<\/li><li>Not everyone eliminates illiteracy in a year.<\/li><li>Not just anyone lowers infant mortality from 42% to 4%.<\/li><li>Not just any way more than 130 thousand doctors, guaranteeing 1 doctor for every 130 people, with the highest index of doctors per capita in the world.<\/li><li>Not just anyone creates the largest Medical School in the world, graduating 1,500 foreign doctors per year, with 25,000 doctors graduating from 84 nations.<\/li><li>Not just anyone sends more than 30 thousand doctors to collaborate in more than 68 countries in the world, adding nearly 600,000 missions.<\/li><li>Not everyone manages to be the only Latin American nation without child malnutrition.<\/li><li>Not everyone can be the only Latin American country without a drug problem.<\/li><li>Not everyone achieves 100% schooling.<\/li><li>Not everyone can circulate in their country without seeing a single child sleeping on the street.<\/li><li>Not just anyone, transform an orphan child from the street, to be the first astronaut \/ cosmonaut in Latin America<\/li><li>Not everyone manages to be the only country in the world that meets ecological sustainability.<\/li><li>Not everyone achieves that their population has 80 years of life expectancy at birth.<\/li><li>Not everyone creates vaccines against Cancer.<\/li><li>Not everyone can be the only country that eradicates mother-child transmission of HIV.<\/li><li>Not everyone manages to have the most Olympic medals in Latin America.<\/li><li>Not everyone survives more than 600 attempts on his life and 11 US presidents trying to overthrow him.<\/li><li>Not everyone survives 50 years of blockade and economic warfare.<\/li><li>Not everyone reaches 90 years of age, with so much prominence in world history.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loved by millions. Misunderstood and hated by many. What no one can do is ignore it \u2026<br>Today more than ever we raise our identity, proud of our history of struggle and of our national symbols and attributes. We are a nation with our own ideas, values \u200b\u200band unbreakable principles, with a criterion that does not need false representations. In #Cuba we will never allow hypocritical puppets who try to manipulate us and even less to speak on our behalf. #YoSoyFidel, #YoSoyCuba, #SomosContinuidad, #SomosCuba and above all the absurd and genocidal efforts of imperialism, our people remain firm and convinced:<br>&#x1f1e8;&#x1f1fa; COMMANDER IN CHIEF, ORDER !!! &#x1f1e8;&#x1f1fa;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not just anyone brings down a dictatorship with 20 men and 7 rifles in defiance of the North American Empire. Not everyone eliminates illiteracy in<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/not-just-anyone\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3364,"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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3465,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/lopez-obrador-thanks-cuba-for-sending-doctors-to-mexico\/","url_meta":{"origin":3360,"position":0},"title":"L\u00f3pez Obrador thanks Cuba for sending doctors to Mexico","author":"Editorial Team","date":"January 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador thanked the Cuban government on Thursday for sending some 500 doctors and nurses to confront the Covid-19 pandemic. 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