Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Addis Ababa, Sep 13 - Love for Cuba and what can be done to help it amid the intensified US economic blockade are topics discussed by Ethiopian graduates of the Caribbean island with the ICAP delegation that continues here today.
For those who arrived at an early age to train as technicians and professionals in several Cuban provinces and self-proclaimed Ethio-Cubans, the visit of the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Fernando González Llort, is a propitious occasion to update themselves on the current situation in the largest of the Antilles and to reinforce solidarity.
During a meeting at the Cuban embassy in Addis Ababa, González LLort stated that the lack of fuel and lubricants, the impossibility of acquiring external financing due to the inclusion in the spurious US list of countries sponsoring terrorism, among other causes, compromise the energy stability of the Caribbean nation.
In this regard, he mentioned the recent fall of the National Electric System and, taking into account previous experiences, referred to how it was possible to recover it in the shortest possible time with the commissioning of energy islands for the start-up of thermoelectric plants.
The aforementioned, together with other difficulties, sensitized the Ethio-Cuban representatives of several solidarity associations who feel that the problems currently affecting Cuba are their own, and agreed to establish a coordinating committee to organize the shipment of medicines and other supplies.
Tedy Mekonnen, a young radiologist trained in the eastern province of Guantánamo, handed over several medicines to the visiting delegation, which also includes the director of Africa of ICAP, Yahimi Rodríguez Flores, and called for sending more supplies to help alleviate the shortcomings of the Cuban health sector.
On the other hand, González Llort took the opportunity to launch in Ethiopia the campaign for the centenary of the birth of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, scheduled from August 13 until the same date in 2026, a framework that he considered propitious to further boost solidarity and the ties that unite both peoples.
This year, Cuba and Ethiopia commemorated on July 18 the establishment of diplomatic relations, marked by mutual respect, solidarity, and the spilled blood of 163 Caribbean combatants who fell in defense of the sovereignty of the African nation against external annexationist attempts.
The visit of the ICAP delegation, like other high-level delegations from Cuba received to date in Ethiopia, contributes to the strengthening of those unbreakable ties between both countries. (Text and photo: PL)
