Mexico City, Feb 8 (EFE).- The visit to Mexico of the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, will focus next Saturday on medical and health issues, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard revealed this Wednesday.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) also reported that economic issues will possibly be addressed during the meeting of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador with his Cuban counterpart in Campeche, a state in the southeast of the country.
The meeting is scheduled at 8:00 a.m. local time (2:00 p.m. GMT) in the city of Campeche, where members of the cabinets will also be present and where the progress of the Mayan Train, the flagship work of President López Obrador to boost the economy of the southern region, will be monitored. -southeast mexican
“We are going to have a bilateral meeting with several officials from both countries to review the progress of the bilateral relationship, especially the exchange of medical issues and other issues that are pending and that must be reviewed,” said the Mexican foreign minister.
Ebrard also commented that among the topics to be discussed are anticovid vaccines, which are applied in Mexico as part of the reinforcement campaigns.
“There are probably other economic issues. We are going to see, on Saturday, what can be achieved, but I think that it will essentially be the medical issue, pharmaceutical equipment, that type of issue, ”he insisted.
Díaz-Canel’s visit to Mexico occurs before the dispatch of almost 500 Cuban doctors to the country, given the lack of Mexican health professionals, particularly in the most marginal areas of the territory, with specialties such as cardiology, pediatrics, general surgery and orthopedics, among others.
Likewise, the visit to the area where the Mayan Train takes place takes place in a framework in which 20,000 tons of Cuban ballast have been imported into Mexico, which are used in the development of the mega-project promoted by President López Obrador.
This will be the fourth time that Díaz-Canel visits Mexico under the mandate of López Obrador, who also visited Havana last May to sign the health agreement that allowed the arrival of Cuban doctors.
“That will be on Saturday, Campeche, it will last all day. And on Sunday morning, the president of Cuba is already retiring,” Ebrard said.
López Obrador has led the fight in the region to demand that the United States end the embargo, which he has called “retrograde”, “medieval” and “inhuman”. EFE
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