Castro, Inc. prevents ailing Canadian in socialist Cuba from getting medicine he desperately needs

From our Bureau of Socialist Compassion with some assistance from our Bureau of Great Moments in Socialist Medical Care, our Canadian Gluttons for Punishment Desk, and our resident Expert on Noble Savages, Doctor Dieter-Helmut Arschkopf von Autohupen

This tale of woe interweaves two themes: Canadian insanity and Castronoid socialist cruelty.

First, a Canadian is insane enough to move to Castrogonia, despite the fact that he suffers excruciating and debilitating back pain and the drugs he needs for this condition are unavailable in that socialist hellhole.

No problem, he thinks. He moves to Castrogonia, marries a Cuban woman and gets his drugs from Canada.

He doesn’t have to live like a Cuban, of course. He has Canadian dollars flowing in. He is a superior being.

Then, seventeen years later, the plague comes along and he is unable to travel to Canada.

Then, despite the fact that Canadian tourists are now flying back and forth from Castrogonia, he is not allowed to leave the island and no one is allowed to bring him his drugs.

All of a sudden, he is being treated like a Cuban rather than as the superior being he is.

Ah, the marvels of socialist compassion. This is what socialists call “social justice.” And this is why they also brag so much about Castrogonia’s free medical care.

Loosely translated from CiberCuba.

Bernard Boivin is a Canadian who has lived in Cuba for 17 years. This Thursday he left the Hotel Morón, in Ciego de Ávila, 62 kilometers from the Jardines del Rey airport. He had been there for almost a week hoping that Immigration would authorize him to fly to Quebec (Canada) to look for the hydromorphine that relieves the excruciating pain he suffers after undergoing seven spinal operations.

But they haven’t let him get on a plane in the keys. They also won’t allow his brother to travel from Canada with the medicine and leave it at Customs, so that an Immigration and Aliens officer can deliver it to Boivin.

Given the refusal, he has settled the pending account at the Hotel Morón and at this time he is going back to Santiago de Cuba, where his wife and two children are waiting for him.

His health problems began in Canada with a herniated disc, but things got complicated in the operating room. Winters in Quebec made it very difficult for him to recover, and the doctor suggested that he move to a place with a less severe climate. The idea of ??settling in Santiago de Cuba was given to him by a Cuban singer in his brother’s orchestra, who provided him with the direction of a private home where he could stay on a first exploratory trip.

And Boivin flew to Santiago, found that his pains subsided and decided to return a second time, but to stay and live. Shortly after, he met a Cuban woman, a single mother with a seven-year-old boy, and married her. The couple share a 12-year-old son, but Boivin says he has two. He raised his stepson as his own and the boy is already going to college.

Every year, Boivin travels to Canada and brings his medicines with him in his carry-on luggage on his return. In 17 years he has never had a problem getting hydromorphine and antidepressants for his neurological pain. But the closure of the Cuban borders since March 24 due to coronavirus, has prevented him from traveling until now, which he tries to do after stretching his medicine until it is completely finished.

He no longer has anything left and these pains cannot be tolerated with just anything, he tells CiberCuba. That is why he requested permission from the transportation authorities of Santiago de Cuba and got the go-ahead to move to the Jardines del Rey airport. He planned to fly to Canada on September 20 and couldn’t. I had a reservation made at a hotel in Cayo Coco; It was canceled and he was not allowed to stay in it. An immigration officer even told him that if he insisted, he could lose his residence in Cuba.

When he saw that Immigration did not allow him to leave through the keys in the planes that bring Canadian tourists on vacation to the island, Boivin asked his brother, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, to go from Quebec to Montreal to find him the medicines he needs to lead a more or less normal life.

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