19/03/2021 – 7:39 PM (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 who published on his social networks.
The Facebook images show the specialist’s white coat in urology and integrative general medicine with the popular phrase embroidered on the back, while the front features the logo of the Patriotic Association of Cubans in Ecuador.
“In case anyone doubts my word … my robe is ready for the row of freedom … LAND AND LIFE,” Alexander Jesús wrote in the images of his robe.
The slogan Patria y Vida, from the well-known theme song of Yotuel Romero, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, El Funky and Maykel Osorbo, has become the favorite slogan of those demanding the end of the dictatorship in Cuba, while the government has Cuban ones who defend and reproduce it harshly punished and oppressed.
The doctor Alexander Jesús Figueredo has gained importance in the Cuban independent media since February He denounced the death of his parents for the shortage of medicines and resources at the Manzanillo hospital, in the province of Granma.
“What good is it to be a doctor, to be a power to the world, if we don’t have syringes, gloves, probes, medicines, electrical appliances, ambulances, stretchers, blood pressure monitor, stitches …”, Figueredo previously denounced when he referred to the Celia Sánchez Manduley Hospital, Manzanillo.
The doctor has also criticized the island’s government on social media where has highlighted the state’s mismanagement for leaving Cuban citizens without options and wondered why he would keep resisting.
“The Cuban works for a salary of at least 10 days, which is spent on junk because food, the real thing, doesn’t exist; because they cannot think while traveling, because they cannot strive for clothes, because they cannot dream of pleasing their children. And they press, and they keep pushing and we resist and I ask myself, what am I resisting? Will there be anything after that? ”He wrote on Facebook.
It is not clear what the retaliation against the doctor’s actions might be, but the Cuban state has since taken 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 the activist Anyell Valdés, one of the barracks in San Isidro, where they broke through the perimeter of the house and smashed the facade of the house with blue paint to cover a poster of the Patria y Vida.
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