| 19/03/2021 – 19:39 (GMT-4)
Cuban doctor Alexander Jesús Figueredo embroidered the popular slogan Patria y Vida in his white coat to practice the profession, according to the Bayamo doctor published on his social networks.
The images on Facebook show the white coat of the specialist in urology and integral general medicine with the popular phrase embroidered on the back, while in front is displayed the logo of the Patriotic Association of Cubans in Ecuador.
“If anyone doubts my word … my robe is ready for the tail of freedom … THE COUNTRY AND LIFE,” Alexander Jesús wrote to accompany the images of his robe.
The slogan Patria y Vida, from the well-known theme song by Yotuel Romero, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, El Funky and Maykel Osorbo, has become the favorite slogan of those calling for an end to the Cuban dictatorship, while the Cuban government has severely punished and repressed those who defend and reproduce it.
Doctor Alexander Jesús Figueredo gained relevance in the Cuban independent press in February He denounced the death of his parents due to lack of drugs and resources at Manzanillo Hospital, in the province of Granma.
“What good is it to be a doctor, to be a power for the world, if we don’t have syringes, gloves, probes, medicines, electro, ambulances, stretchers, sphygmomanometer, sutures …”, Figueredo denounced previously when referring to Celia Sánchez Manduley Hospital, Manzanillo.
The doctor also criticized the island’s government on social networks, where pointed to mismanagement of the state because it left Cuban citizens without options and wondered why he could hold on.
“The Cuban works for a salary that lasts at least 10 days, which is spent on junk because the food, the real one, does not exist; because they can’t think about traveling, because they can’t aspire to get dressed, because they can’t dream of pleasing their children. And he presses and continues to press and we resist and I wonder: Resisting for what? Is there anything after that? “, He wrote on Facebook.
It is not clear what the retaliation against the doctor’s action may be, but the Cuban state has devoted itself to acts of rejection and military agents until violent arrests for those who reproduce the phrase in a public way.
In February the authorities organized a act of rejection against activist Anyell Valdés, one of the barracks in San Isidro, during which they broke through the perimeter fence of the house and vandalized the facade of the house with blue paint to cover a poster of Patria and Vida.
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