The question was direct and straightforward: if no one exchanges hard currency for pesetas, what do the private companies joining the effort to rebuild the Cuban healthcare system obtain? Julio César Alfonso, president of Solidaridad Sin Fronteras, responded unequivocally during an interview with CiberCuba, in which journalist Tania Costa raised the real incentive behind the "911 Cuba" program.
"The companies that get involved in all of this will have the contracts and benefits to operate financially within the Island as the health system is established, along with the entire government and industrial infrastructure in Cuba," stated Alfonso.
The executive of the organization clarified that the return is not limited to the healthcare sector: those who invest in medical reconstruction will be positioned to operate throughout the Cuban economy once the country functions like any other nation in the world.
"Businesspeople work with a long-term perspective. They make an investment, and you don’t have a specific time frame to recover it. Once all that political and industrial infrastructure is established across all sectors of the Cuban economy and society, everything will start to operate as it should in any country in the world," he explained.
Alfonso's argument rests on a premise: Cuba, freed from dictatorship, would replicate on a national scale the model of prosperity that Cubans have already demonstrated in exile.
"Cuba is a very interesting country, very open, and the laboratory of what will happen in the future of Cuba is in Miami," he stated.
"Miami is a laboratory that showcases what a person is capable of achieving upon arriving in a free country. The Cuban has proven this," concluded Alfonso, summarizing both the business argument and the political commitment behind the initiative.
The "911 Cuba" program was publicly presented in Hialeah by Solidaridad Sin Fronteras and Cruz Verde Internacional, with La Colonia Medical Center as an institutional partner.
The initiative includes an initial phase of free humanitarian assistance—with field hospitals and medical volunteers—and a second phase focused on structural reconstruction with private companies from the United States, Europe, Australia, and Canada.
The collapse that motivates the plan is severe.
Alfonso has pointed out that hospitals in Cuba are operating under wartime conditions due to blackouts, and that no country he has worked in— including Haiti and various African nations—has conditions as precarious as those on the Island.
In 2025, the very Ministry of Public Health acknowledged a medication coverage of only 30%, while independent records documented at least 87 deaths due to arbovirosis between October and November of that year, compared to the 33 deaths officially recognized.
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