Hildebrando Pérez
Lima, August 18 (RHC)-- Award-winning Peruvian poet Hildebrando Pérez has urged his country’s new authorities to lend a helping hand to Cuba at this difficult time. He said Peru should follow the example of other Latin American nations and mentions Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico and send medical inputs and medicines to the Caribbean island state for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
'It is time for Peru, like Mexico, Argentina and Bolivia, to break the blockade, defy the US empire, and send disposable needles, face masks and other pharmacological products to fight the coronavirus,' he said.
In a message on social networks as tribute to Revolution leader Fidel Castro on occasion of his 95th birthday anniversary, Pérez –a Casa de las Américas Literary Prize laureate, said condemning the US blockade at international forums is not enough. ‘The UN annual resolutions against Washington’s blockade policy toward Cuba are no longer enough,’ he said.
About the Cuban revolution leader, the Peruvian poet said 'Fidel is one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century and the early 21st century, for he embodied, in a victorious way, the nobility, courage, resilience and dignity that characterize the Cuban people.'
Poet Hildebrando Pérez is the National Coordinator of the Peru-Cuba Solidarity Group. The solidarity organization, along with the Association of Peruvian Professionals Graduated in Cuba and the Association of Cuban Residents in Peru 'Raices Mambisas', recently sent a first aid cargo to Cuba, comprising mainly syringes for the Cuban vaccination campaign against Covid-19.
