Camagüey, Jan 22. – Whereas the US Treasury Department threatens to fine members of the Venceremos Brigade and of the Pastor for Peace for travelling to Cuba, President Fidel Castro said that the Island is prepared to offer 150 thousand free surgeries to the poor people suffering from eyesight afflictions in the United States.

Fidel Castro upheld to be inspired to respond with such a gesture before the cruelty with which Washington attempts to punish those generous people that have always acted in solidarity with the Cuban people in their harshest moments.

This offer, previously done by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who suggested to extend the Operation Miracle to US people of lowest income, now is improved with other 50 thousand quotas and a Cuban aircraft fleet that would transport the patients from some place in Florida to the Island or Venezuela.

Supposing it happens Cuba would cover the costs, "we bring them, accommodate them and treat them" said Fidel, for that we have excellent hospitals and equipment aside from a powerful human capital, he added.

He wondered what Washington is going to say, will it allow its citizens to Cuba to have an eye operation, Cuba’s purpose is not to earn money as with the baseball, he emphasized.

Previously the Cuban President had analyzed the strange circumstances in which a TV channel in Germany broadcast a film that incriminated Cuba – and basically him – in the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, when he was president of the United States.

He wondered who had paid for doing such a film that has been widely publicized and seemed to be a CIA-made movie, for the style used in other occasion defaming on the Cuban Revolution (Gualveris Rosales Sánchez)

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