Hilda Molina

[Karl Marx's Camel]

What do you guys think of her?


She has apparently repeatedly been denied a visa to travel for personal as well as professional reasons. Molina claims that she and her son were subjected to mob retaliation.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

Dr Hilda Molina is the former chief neurosurgeon of Cuba. Molina was also a deputy in the Cuban National Assembly but has been a critic of the Cuban government since the early 1990s. Her criticisms focus primarily on Cuba's state-governed healthcare system.

In 1987, Molina founded the neurosurgery center in Havana. By 1991, her center had become one of the most important scientific centers in Cuba. The same year, Molina claims she was informed by the then Minister of Health, Julia Teca, that her center was henceforth to treat foreigners paying in U.S. dollars. Previously, the center had treated only Cuban patients. Dr. Molina subsequently resigned her position at the center and her seat at the National Assembly. Molina claims that she and her son were subjected to mob retaliation in what are termed "acts of repudiation". She has continuously been denied a visa to travel for personal as well as professional reasons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Molina

[Solitary Mind]

The way i see it, she held very high in Cuba and to Castro himself...She disrespected Castro by giving back all her honors and left the country, leaving behind her sons(nephews? i read sons but i saw on TV them talking about her nephews or grandchildren). She wants to go back now and visit the people she left behind....and everyone and their mothers have a claim now adays lol. if she can show evidence ill take it seriously, if not, too bad.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

She disrespected Castro by giving back all her honors and left the country

Are you saying she managed to escape from Cuba, then?

Where does she live now?


if she can show evidence ill take it seriously

Evidence of what?

[Karl Marx's Camel]

From a (rightwing) blog

After she was thrown out of the embassy last December and into the waiting arms of fidel's henchmen, I have been trying to learn of her status, because she is still stuck in Havana and cannot get out.
http://www.babalublog.com/archives/001564.html

This was April 08, 2005. So are you saying she managed to escape from the country some time after April 08 2005?




To:

United Nations Human Rights Commission
Interamerican Commission of Human Rights
Human Rights Watch
Center for Openess and Development in Latin America
Organizations and personalities who struggle for respect for human rights

Excellent Sirs:

I am writing to you all with a proposal to denounce one more time the multitude of human rights violations, especially those related to the rights of families, which is systematically and with impunity propagated by the government of Cuba.

First: In 1994, I considered unacceptable among other things, the official political decision to dollarize funding of the medical-neuroscientific institution, and the consequent discrimination against my compatriots who are affected by grave neurological illnesses and who are invalids, I renounced to all links to the regime and this society, including my post as representative in Cuba's parliament.

Since the precise moment of my resignation, my family and I have been victims of an interminable string of calumnies, and in supreme cruelty, I have been prohibited from travelling abroad. Over more than 10 years, I have solicited it without rest, the absurd permission to travel required by Cubans in general; the government denies me this permission, arguing that my scientific position is prominent, and "that my brain is the patrimony of the nation." The consequence of this variant of captivity that I am subject to, implies a public violation of Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

- The Cuban government impeded me from temporarily visiting Argentina for a reunion, after 11 years of forcible separation, with my son, who is a naturalized Argentinian, and with his wife who is an Argentine citizen.

- The Cuban government has forbidden me from the possibility of knowing my grandchildren who were born in Argentina. They, who will soon be 10 and 11 years old are in danger of grave psychological disequilibrium due to the growing separation from their paternal family.

- The Cuban government is impeding me from assisting hundreds scientific academic events in diverse ways, all of which I am consistently invited.

- The Cuban government remains insensitive to the pitiful wishes of my old mother who is gravely infirm, impeding the normal reunification of our family.

To resume and conclude the arguments I have previously expounded upon, I will reiterate that the government of Cuba:

-Violated the sacred rights of my grandchildren to live and grow happily in the sight of all their family, as is known in the Convention on the rights of the child.

-Violated the more sensible rights of women, mothers and grandmothers. Actually, at 62 years of age, I find myself undefended, infirm, and incapacitated.

-Violated the rights of my family, and tortured psychologically my old dying mother and my innocent little grandchildren.

-Violated my rights as a professional, impeding my free entry and exit from Cuba, to complete scientific academic engagements.

Second: The tragic situation of my family does not constitute an exception in Cuba over the last 46 years. It is precisely the family, one of the institutions most destroyed in this case for five decades of communist government.

1. The Cubans are not dependent on the permission of the government to travel abroad and return to the country, without constantly having their rights of free movement violated by the arbitrary state organs that delay or deny, provoking the tearing apart of thousands of innocent families, that submerges them in paralyzing fear, so they are incapacitated to reclaim the respect for their rights most elemental.

2. Thousands of families have suffered and are suffering from the distance of their loved ones, subject to an unjust prison for reasons of conscience.

3. Since 1959, hundreds of thousands of families have been humiliated, repudiated, calumnified and swiftly incarcerated, only for their decision, materialized or not, to reside overseas. And over many years, hundreds of thousands of families were condemned to incommunication with their loved ones if they managed to abandon their country.

4. Thousands of families have suffered and are suffering from the habitual absence of some of their family members, involuntarily from the government, in distance and at many times for illogical reasons.

The family, the pillar institution of society, is gravely infirm in Cuba, because those who govern account with absolute power to capriciously administer the rights of all, giving no importance to the lives of those they destroy.

It is true that in different latitudes of the planet, the rights of the weakest and most debilitated are violated daily. But this is censurable reality and unjustified, and not to be combated by defending and perpetrating other injustices. The existence of this unjust reality in the world, does not justify that personalities and organizations responsible for the defense of human rights, assume attitudes of acceptance, support or complicity done by a government that has cemented its power on the cries of fathers, sons, grandchildren, and innocent grandmothers; and on this systematic and public violation of the sacred rights of Cubans and their families.

May God have mercy.

Dr. Hilda Molina

Tel: 53-7-8782256 (home)

[Karl Marx's Camel]

So what do you all think of this?

[red team]

Everybody has a motive for something. They don't simply reject a government for no reason and the reason she gave is simply not believable.


First: In 1994, I considered unacceptable among other things, the official political decision to dollarize funding of the medical-neuroscientific institution, and the consequent discrimination against my compatriots who are affected by grave neurological illnesses and who are invalids, I renounced to all links to the regime and this society, including my post as representative in Cuba's parliament.

Like for example, the dollarized funding of a medical institution. Wouldn't the dollarization of a medical institution actually bring in needed foreign cash? Why would you reject it unless it is the only exclusive hospital in Cuba so nobody else could get medical help other than tourists? Is that the case? I don't know, but I doubt it. Cuba still has an extensive public welfare system.

But, if it is true it could also be a symptom of Cuba facing financial defeat. Not surprising as it is surrounded by a world system that is diametrically opposed to it. Yet another reason why Socialism must be a world-wide system and nothing else.

Again, not enough information to go on, but I'm betting there's something else she's not making public.