Battleangel

“It’s incomprehensible that a civilized nation can confuse someone who has dedicated his life to saving the lives of children with someone who goes against the interests of the United States.” I couldn’t have said it better myself. It is clear beyond a shadow of a doubt what kind of game the US is playing. The US is not a civilized nation and would never hesitate, and has never hesitated to sacrifice innocent people to further their own quest for Empire. They perform ethnic cleansing and subjugate nations. They play with humanitarian assistance as if it was a weapon in their grand arsenal. They flaunt every international treaty and attempt at spreading human rights and saving lives, if it doesn’t suit their fancy.

AP - A Cuban scientist who helped develop a low-cost synthetic vaccine that prevents meningitis and pneumonia in small children says he was offended the U.S. government denied his request to travel to the United States to receive an award.

Vicente Verez-Bencomo was to accept the award recognizing his team’s technological achievement during a Wednesday ceremony at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif. He had also been invited to address a gathering of the Society for Glycobiology in Boston on Friday.

Verez-Bencomo said the State Department denied him a visa because the visit would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

I bet this is stinging the Americans in so many ways. For one it proves the superiority of the Cuban health care system and shatters the black and white image of Cuba. Second, low-cost drugs, that is almost … un-American. Verez-Bencomo just didn’t sell out to big biz like he should have. Helping people without carpet bombing them? And he didn’t flee Cuba on a raft? What is that all about? Duh.