Cuban Vice-President visits Ghana on solidarity campaign
Cuban Vice-President, Esteban Lazo Hernandez, over the weekend paid a visit to Ghana to strengthen ties between the two countries and promote solidarity in a bid to fight against terrorism on the African continent.
The Cuban Vice President who led an 11-member delegation to harness business and bilateral co-operation will also visit Mali and Equitorial Guinea before returning to his country.
Ghana and Cuba have had a long standing relationship and for the last 46 years Cuba has welcomed 1,800 Ghanaian students.
Vice-President John Dramani Mahama who traced the relations of the two countries to the hard work of President Kwame Nkrumah and Fidel Castro said Cuba had a lot of things in common with Ghana, which both governments should exploit for their development.
“Both Ghana and Cuba have the penchant to fight against oppression and other kinds of abuse, which we need to use in our development plans in future.”
As part of the visit, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the government of Ghana and Cuba to begin the medical training of 250 Ghanaian students in Cuba by next year.
Announcing this on Sunday, the Vice-President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, said government was currently engaged in selecting these students from deprived districts who, on completion, would return to Ghana and be posted to serve their communities.
Vice-President Mahama said as part of the MOU other paramedical staff would also be trained while government would also collaborate with Cuba to develop biotechnology plants and vaccines that could avoid the rampant amputations amongst the patients of Ghana’s medical institutions.
Vice-President Hernandez said Cuba will increase her struggle for the liberation of the Cuban Five who have been unjustly held in United States prisons for eleven years for having monitored and prevented dozens of terrorist acts that the counter-revolution in Miami intended to make from Florida.
The Vice-President also showed his deep appreciation for Ghana’s decision to vote in favor of the United Nations resolution against the blockade imposed by the Government of the United States against Cuba and called on President Obama for immediate action.
Vice-President Mahama said government would continue to support the Cuban government to fight against the Cuban economic blockade and facilitate the release of the five Cuban nationals jailed in the US.
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