
{"id":198442,"date":"2019-05-09T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=198442"},"modified":"2019-05-09T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:10:59","slug":"cuban-doctors-kidnapped-in-kenya-a-new-hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-doctors-kidnapped-in-kenya-a-new-hypothesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban doctors kidnapped in Kenya: a new hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last January, a joint operation by the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) and U.S. aviation bombed several Al-Shabaab bases near the border with Somalia, leaving more than 50 dead and an indeterminate number of injured. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyan-post.com\/2019\/04\/this-is-exactly-why-al-shabaab-abducted.html?m=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">intelligence sources quoted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Kenyan newspaper Daily Post, &#8220;the group is in dire need of doctors and medical equipment,&#8221; and that would be the reason that would explain the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/tag\/secuestro-medicos-kenia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kidnapping of Cuban doctors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Landy Rodr\u00edguez Hern\u00e1ndez and Assel Herrera Correa in Mandera, a town on the border with Somalia where they were serving under an agreement between the governments of Nairobi and Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In that case it would be the first action carried out for that purpose by this affiliate of Al-Qaeda, the protagonist of a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/mundo\/al-shabab-o-los-mensajeros-de-la-muerte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">history of kidnappings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for money, extortion of international NGOs, drug trafficking, donations from abroad and the imposition of taxes in the territories controlled by them as forms of financing, among other actions in that sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the area where they penetrated on April 12, local doctors had taken flight due, precisely, to security concerns. There were not many other options then for Al-Shabaab to be able to solve the problem of caring for their wounded terrorists. If this hypothesis is valid, as it seems, it would not have been, therefore, an express and deliberate action taken against Cubans because of their nationality. Both doctors, in addition, enjoyed recognition in a place with high rates of maternal\/infant mortality and preventable diseases. They were also praised <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s3DD0zZk8-A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on television<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/al-shabaabs-kidnappings-chronology-of-the-wait\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Shabaab\u00b4s kidnappings: chronology of the wait<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Saturday, May 4, after more than 20 days of that operation, terrorism <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201905060111.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has returned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to that area, particularly in Hareri Hosle, a village on the Kenyan-Somali border near the Mandera-Lafei-Elwak route, closed by the government in 2015 after an Al-Shabaab operative killed 28 people abducted in a bus bound for the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About 30 of their troops entered the village, ransacked a grocery store and took some weapons with the balance of two wounded police reservists. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/adncuba.com\/actualidad\/al-shabaab-vuelve-atacar-donde-secuestraron-medicos-cubanos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to reports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the northeastern regional chief, Mohamed Birik, apparently more interested in defending his post than trying to resolve the problems, said that the security agencies were in control of the area, despite some reported incidents, which marks a difference with what the governor of Mandera, Ali Roba, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/counties\/north-eastern\/2019-04-15-use-all-means-possible-to-rescue-cuban-doctors-clerics-urge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">asked himself<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after the kidnapping of the two Cubans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Honestly, how is it possible that we have more than 1,000 security officers in a small city like this one? However, such an incident can occur in broad daylight. These are the questions we must ask ourselves. It seems strange to me.&#8221; It was evidently an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/counties\/north-eastern\/2019-04-15-use-all-means-possible-to-rescue-cuban-doctors-clerics-urge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allusion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the collaboration networks within the Kenyan police and security forces, and also the reason why <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/world\/suspect-of-collaborating-in-kidnapping-of-cuban-doctors-under-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the driver of the Cuban doctors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is still under arrest and under investigation, despite reports that he would be under arrest for only fifteen days in a Nairobi unit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for the doctors, the authorities affirm that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/counties\/north-eastern\/2019-04-23-fate-of-abducted-cuban-doctors-a-mystery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for security reasons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, no public information has been given out. But a week ago Birik himself declared that &#8220;a lot of progress had been made in the field of rescuing them,&#8221; perhaps an information involving the work of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/ancianos-de-mandera-podrian-interceder-por-liberacion-de-medicos-cubanos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">elders of Mandera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sent at an early time to negotiate the two doctors\u2019 release with their Somali counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the same day that these terrorists entered Hareri Hosle, Cuban Minister of Public Health Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Portal Miranda tweeted that he had had a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/kenia-asegura-que-trabaja-para-el-retorno-de-medicos-cubanos-secuestrados\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new conversation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with his Kenyan counterpart &#8220;as part of the efforts made by our government for the safe return of the two kidnapped Cuban doctors.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost two years ago, Kenyan elite forces <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/world\/al-shabaab-or-the-messengers-of-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tried<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to rescue Kenyan Secretary of Public Works Mayra Mariam El-Maawy from her captors, along with five other officials. Unfortunately, the operation was not a success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Breaking news reported that combined military forces from Kenya and Somalia took the border town of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/somalia-forces-capture-key-shabab-town-bariire\/3992642.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barire<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as part of an operation aimed at rescuing the Cuban doctors. Five Al-Shabaab commanders surrendered and are being interrogated in the Somali capital. They are supposedly hiding the doctors somewhere in Barire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The head of the Somali army, General Dahir Adan Elmi, congratulated the soldiers and described the liberation of the town as a blow to the members of Al-Shabaab. The lower region of Shebelle, where it is located, has been under the control of Al-Shabaab for several years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I want to congratulate the National Army of Somalia and the troops of AMISOM in Kenya for the work. The capture of the city of Barire is strategic and a blow to Al-Shabaab,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last January, a joint operation by the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) and U.S. aviation bombed several Al-Shabaab bases near the border with Somalia, leaving more than 50 dead and an indeterminate number of injured. 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