Young doctor Yadira Capote, on behalf of 46 Cuban healthcare workers returning to their homeland, expressed her gratitude to the humble and noble people of Guatemala.
During an emotional farewell ceremony in Guatemala City, the specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine reciprocated the gesture of having their doors and hearts opened to them, as well as the lesson that gratitude can be greater than any difficulty.
Before the Cuban ambassador to Guatemala, Nazario Fernández, members of the diplomatic corps, the Cuban medical brigade, and guests, the doctor also acknowledged her colleagues, “for being strength, support, and family.”
Yadira Capote thanked them for demonstrating every day that true internationalism is built with sacrifice, but also with love. “We leave with the satisfaction of a duty fulfilled, but also with the certainty that this work will not be forgotten, because the legacy has been sown, the commitment remains alive,” Capote emphasized.
“This is not just any goodbye; it is the closing of a chapter that profoundly marked us as professionals and human beings, she admitted. A story that has been beating in the heart of Guatemala, in its mountains, in its most remote communities, for more than 27 years.”
Being part of the Cuban medical brigade in this land has been more than an honor, an immense responsibility, she remarked, while describing how “here we understood that medicine is not measured in resources, but in dedication; not in comfort, but in commitment; not in distance, but in human closeness.”
During this time, we walked difficult paths, crossed long distances, faced challenges, but we were never alone, the doctor emphasized. We were accompanied by the smile of a child, the sincere gratitude of a mother, the trusting gaze of an elderly person, she exemplified.
In saying goodbye, she affirmed, we do not do so with sadness, but with profound love, because in every life we touch, we leave a part of ourselves, a part of Cuba, and in each of us, a piece of this Central American territory will remain forever.
Capote reaffirmed her commitment to the island, to the Revolution, “to our people, to defend the homeland, through our healthcare services and as combatants, if necessary, alongside our heroic people.”
At the event, also a tribute to Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro in the centennial year of his birth, the head of the Cuban healthcare professionals, Mariheta Cutiño, conveyed that the group is returning victorious.
In these complex times, marked by external pressures, persecution of good, smear campaigns, and a ruthless and genocidal blockade that affects every Cuban family, their work acquires even greater value, she asserted.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
