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Cuban Revolution Extolled in Brazil

Brazil, June 11, 2009. The fact that the Revolution is still alive today is the main achievement of the Cuban socialist process, marking its 50th anniversary, said Gen. Harry Villegas, a survivor of the Bolivian guerrilla campaign, lead by Che Guevara.

During his lecture "Cuba: 50 Years of Victories," at the 17th National Convention of Solidarity with Cuba in Brazil, the member of the National Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution gave comparative figures of Cuba before and after January 1959.

He explained that before the triumph of the Revolution Cuba boasted an unemployment index of 30 percent, which meant that over 1.20 million Cubans of working age, including 9,000 teachers, had no job, in a population of nearly 6 million inhabitants.

Villegas said that fifty years later, Cuba boasts an infant mortality of 5.4 per thousand live births, a life expectancy of 77 years, there is no illiteracy and it has 70,594 doctors (one for every 159 inhabitants).

And all of this despite terrorist attacks and the US genocidal economic, political and social blockade against the Island, he stressed.

This is an all-out war against the Cuban people, amounting to genocide, said Villegas.

But Cuba has shared what it has with other countries worldwide, as shown by more than 30,000 Cuban health professionals working in nearly 70 countries, he noted.(Cubaminrex- PL)

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