Cuba allows Hilda Molina to visit her family in Argentina
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that Hilda Molina, a
Cuban-Argentine physician who was not allowed to leave the communist
country, had received an authorization from Havana to visit her family
in Argentina.
"I wanted to tell you the good news," the president told journalists
over the telephone.
Since 1994, Molina had repeatedly asked that the Cuban government grant
her an authorization to visit her son, Roberto Quiñones, who left the
island years ago and currently lives in Argentine with his wife and two
children. The communist government had rejected the possibility on the
basis that the doctor's knowledge was "Cuban property."
"Molina is at the Argentine Embassy in Havana, with her passport with an
authorization to leave the country," said the President, who described
the decision of the Cuban government as "an important gesture from
President Raúl Castro."
Fernández de Kirchner did not specify when would Molina arrive in Argentina.
Molina, aged 67, was a high-ranked member of the Cuban Communist party,
a member of the Legislative Assembly and the director of one of the most
important clinics in the island.
However, in 1994 she distanced from the leaders of the party as a result
of differences regarding the administration of the clinic. That year,
Molina resigned to her post in the health centre and the legislature, as
a way of protesting the government's health policies.
Unofficial sources said the possibility of granting her a travel permit
was one of the issues discussed at a private meeting between the
President and Castro in January. On that occasion, the President also
visited the ailing former leader of the Caribbean island and brother of
President Castro, Fidel Castro.
Buenos Aires Herald (12 June 2009)
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/BreakingNews/View/3688
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