The activists visited the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB).

Photo: ACN.

Being in Cuba and interacting with researchers, knowing how they overcome despite limitations and shortcomings is a transformative experience, Abby Martin, an American documentary filmmaker and journalist, considered today after

a meeting with Cuban scientists at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology ( CIGB), in the capital.

The activist was accompanied by her compatriots Manolo de los Santos, founder and co-executive director of The People's Forum, and Benjamin Samuel Becker, editor-in-chief of Breakthroung News.

The visitors learned about the operation of the institution and the most innovative projects developed by Cuban scientists, among which products such as Heberprot-P, Heberferon, Nasalferon and vaccines against COVID-19 stand out.

Martin described as inspiring to hear about the efforts of Cuban science to preserve life, in a world in which large pharmaceutical companies understand health as a business.

There is a lot of manipulation in this regard in the United States and only when you participate in these spaces can you understand the humanism and abnegation that are hidden behind each achievement achieved by the Cuban scientific community, he added.

Gerardo Enrique Guillén, director of Biomedical Research of the CIGB, explained the difficulties caused by the hostile policy of the United States government by hindering professional exchange and access to resources, technologies and financing necessary for the advancement of the sector.

The director highlighted the contribution of the center to the pharmaceutical industry, with the production of compounds for therapeutic uses and treatment of diseases, and the high commitment of young people linked to these tasks.


Behind the investigative activity in Cuba there is much of the strategic vision of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, to promote science with perspectives, to respond to the problems posed by underdevelopment and the unequal international economic order, he assured.

The CIGB was inaugurated on July 1, 1986, as a large research-productive complex equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, production capabilities and prestigious scientific potential engaged in obtaining new products, with extensive services in areas among which the health and biotechnology.

With these activities, it also assumes the responsibility of contributing directly to the economic and social development of the country.

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