 “Study as hard as you can. The Cuban people as usual have been given that opportunity to the Caribbean brothers”.
BARBADOS, August 29, 2011.- So said the famous icon of Caribbean calypso "Mighty" Gabby, who attended the farewell ceremony to the four young Barbadians benefited from the Cuban program to study medicine.
For the occasion, Gabby, a declared unconditional friend of the Cuban Revolution and activist for the liberation of the Five for whom he wrote a beautiful and combative song, for the time performed in public, a song devoted entirely to the young Cuban teacher Conrado Benitez, killed by bands at the service of the CIA and the U.S. government in 1961 during the Literacy Campaign.
"It's a tribute to who was an example of Cuban youth. And today when it comes to strangle Cuba with a genocidal policy the blockade is, I wanted to pay tribute to Conrado Benitez as part of the Cuban youth who builds a better world. “
Gabby told the audience of his experiences during his trip to the island in 1978 during the Festival of Youth and Students and recalled: "Cuba gives everything to his fellows, there is no other way to give back love."
Embacuba Barbados
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