[News] Why is Cuba’s Vaccine Named ‘Abdala’?

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  Why is Cuba’s Vaccine Named ‘Abdala’?

June 26, 2021
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On June 21, Cuban scientists announced that COVID-19 vaccine candidate 
‘Abdala’ had demonstrated an efficacy rate of 92.28% 
<https://kawsachunnews.com/cubas-abdala-vaccine-is-92-effective> with 
three doses, making it one of the most effective vaccines in the world. 
Abdala will be the country’s second vaccine, the first 
<https://kawsachunnews.com/cuba-scores-major-socialist-victory-with-soberana-02>being 
Soberana 02. The two jabs represent the only COVID-19 vaccines of Latin 
American origin, a product of the country’s socialist biotech industry.

The name Abdala comes from one of Cuba’s most famous poems, written by 
independence hero José Martí when he was just 15 years old. It was 
published on the 23rd of January, 1869, in the /Patria Libre/ newspaper.

RELATED CONTENT: Cuban Vaccine Abdala Shows 92% Efficacy Against 
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It tells the story of a young man, Abdala, who can see no greater glory 
than fighting and dying for the liberation of one’s country against an 
oppressive invader. Even pleas from his mother cannot stop the young 
hero from sacrificing himself for the cause of his people. It’s most 
famous passage goes:

“Mother, love of the homeland

is not a ridiculous love of its earth,

nor of the grass that our plants tread;

it is the invincible hatred of those who oppress her,

it is the eternal resentment of those who attack her.

That love awakens in our chest

the world of memories that call us

to life again, when the blood,

of the wounded soul gushes forth with anguish.”

RELATED CONTENT: Cuba’s COVID-19 Vaccines: A Journey of Collaboration 
and Revolutionary Solidarity 
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It’s widely considered a prophetic piece for how Martí himself would go 
on to live his life. Martí dedicated himself to fight for Cuba’s 
independence, writing to his mother in 1894, he said, “My future is that 
of the light of the white coal that burns itself to illuminate that 
which surrounds it. I feel that my struggles will never end.”

Read the complete poem here 
<http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/abdala--0/html/fef77c2c-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_1.htm>.

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(Kawsachun News 
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