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# Immunization in the Latin American region., #Covid-19 in 2021., #Mujica, #Slolidarity, #The former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica
The former Uruguayan President, Jose Mujica, valued today that the development in Cuba of vaccines against Covid-19 will allow progress with immunization in the Latin American region.
‘Now the Cuban vaccine appears, from a country punished and surrounded by a great power and that shows that we Latin Americans can do important things’, he said.
For the veteran leader, the Cuban vaccines ‘will remember the poor people of Haiti and Central America,’ of whom he said that none of the dominant pharmaceutical companies ‘talk about them because they are not good business.’
When asked about the legal problem to release vaccine patents, he pointed out that the powerful companies are going to put all kinds of obstacles, but ‘the siege is being broken.