In a Cuban TV network appearance, the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, referred to the work fronts in which we are all engaged at present: “coping with the pandemic, with the intensified unjust US blockade against Cuba, and implementing an economic and social strategy.”

White women in the United States had to wait more than a century -- from the time the Constitution was written in 1789 until the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920 -- to have the right to go to the polls and elect their presidents, although this opportunity came earlier in a few places of that country.

Key to the Cuban national strategy in confronting the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, by which medications are produced to implement treatment protocols established by the Ministry of Public Health, has been the Cuban Pharmaceutical Industry. This bio-pharmaceutical sector has accumulated extensive experience in dealing with complex epidemiological situations on national and international levels.