Anti-Castro politics attempts to capitalizes on Cuba’s cholera outbreak
Anti-Castro politics attempts to capitalizes on Cuba’s cholera outbreak
Ideology should give way to solidarity during health crisis, says Dr. Romy Aranguiz
Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 4:00 AM
When it comes to Cuba, everything — even an unusual and worrisome cholera outbreak — is a propaganda occasion for those who, even after 53 years of a failed economic embargo, prefer a policy of hostility and isolation over one of dialogue and engagement.
That’s why it is so refreshing finding someone like Romy Aranguiz, 33, a doctor born in Havana who is not afraid to call it as she sees it.
Aranguiz is part of a new generation of Cuban-Americans who believe that dialogue and engagement is precisely the way to affect positive changes in Cuba.
“As always I remain puzzled about the things that are written about Cuba,” said Aranguiz, who came to the U.S. in 2002 and is now a Rheumatology Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. “Now, with this matter of cholera, there are a lot of people focused on using it for anti-Castro propaganda instead of thinking of what they could do to help their brothers and sisters on the island.”
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