{"id":522,"date":"2012-09-28T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-meets-dr-aleida-guevara\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T09:37:07","slug":"crowe-meets-dr-aleida-guevara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-meets-dr-aleida-guevara\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe meets Dr Aleida Guevara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crowe meets Dr Aleida Guevara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n  Crowe TD, today met Dr Aleida Guevara, Ch\u00e9 Guevara\u2019s daughter, in  Leinster House.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Guevara, who is a paediatrician, was visiting Ireland to attend  the Ch\u00e9 do Bheatha festival in Kilkee and also launch her book  \u201cRemembering Ch\u00e9: My Time with Ch\u00e9 Guevara\u201d in Liberty Hall on 1 October  2012.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the meeting Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great to meet Dr Guevara and hear her speak about the health  care system in Cuba and the forced economic embargo of the Caribbean  country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe advancement Cubans have made in health care is a massive  achievement as they have to work under an illegal trade embargo by the  US. Three-quarters of the pharmaceutical medicines created in the world  are produced by US firms. That means Cuba has largely had to create a  self-sufficient pharmaceutical and health care system, which they have  done with great success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Guevara also mentioned major medical advances that Cuba has made  in relation to vaccinations for lung and colon cancer. They are ready  to share these ground breaking medical treatments with the world but  because of the embargo they cannot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is a tragedy that people are suffering from these  terrible illnesses but yet they can\u2019t avail of these major medical  breakthroughs because of the illogical trade embargo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US needs to end this illegal embargo on Cuba, a position which  has consistently been overwhelmingly supported at the United Nations  General Assembly. It is clear to see that the world will benefit from  trade with Cuba and of course the Cuban population will benefit from  full trade with other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe meets Dr Aleida Guevara Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, today met Dr Aleida Guevara, Ch\u00e9 Guevara\u2019s daughter, in Leinster House. Dr Guevara, who is a paediatrician, was visiting Ireland to attend the Ch\u00e9 do Bheatha festival in Kilkee and also launch her book \u201cRemembering Ch\u00e9: My Time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}