A sick child’s destiny rests on a letter from the Cuban government and a US visa

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A sick child’s destiny rests on a letter from the Cuban government and a US visa

Time passes and 10-year-old Damir Ortiz gets a little sicker every day. This fact is evident to the doctors who are treating him for plexiform neurofibromatosis type 1, a neurological genetic condition that has led to the appearance of tumors throughout his body. It’s evident to the Ministry of Public Health authorities and the rest of the Cuban government, but also to the officials at the U.S. embassy in Havana, where the young boy with a dimin…

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Exiled activist Diasniurka Salcedo also asked for a humanitarian visa for Damir this Wednesday, after talking to the mother and seeing the status of the under-ten years old