Giráldez, Laura Mercedes

Cuban Quixotes

Even there, where stethoscopes seem like artifacts from other worlds, a toothache is deadly, a sprained foot prevents you from walking again or an appendicitis is a "divine punishment"... Cuban health specialists arrive as if they were miraculous healers.

Like quixotes, they also go to the places where natural phenomena have taken their toll on the people or where Ebola and COVID-19 have made themselves felt uncontrollable.