HAVANA A prominent Cuban neurosurgeon has charged that Cuba'sauthorities have not acted on a petition she made more than ninemonths ago to leave the country to visit her son and 1-year-oldgrandchild.
Dr. Hilda Molina, an international pioneer in brain implantsfor Parkinson's disease, wrote to dozens of heads of state, renownedscientists and Nobel-prize winners. Her letter, dated July, 1995,was delivered by hand to Reuters on Friday.
Molina, 52, was founder and director of Cuba's InternationalCenter for Neurological Restoration until she resigned last yearafter being removed from the top post.
She wrote that "responding to the dictates of my conscience andmy heart" she also resigned as a deputy to Cuba's nationalparliament, "an institution to which they elected me in recognitionof my scientific work."
The letter, couched in religious terms, expressed Molina'sdisaffection with Cuba's communist government and asked theauthorities to begin a dialogue with Cubans who hold different views.
Molina said she and her mother applied in November forpermission to visit Argentina where her son, who is also aneurosurgeon, lives with his wife and child.
Molina's son, Dr. Roberto Quinones Molina, also worked at theCenter for Neurological Restoration and left Cuba last year after hismother was removed from her post as director.
"Since November 25, 1994, we have been waiting for thatpermission while an official responded to our repeated requests withonly evasive and imprecise verbal explanations," her letter said.
Molina was an active supporter of the Cuban revolution. Shewas a member of the Cuban armed forces for four years in the 1960sand, after graduating from medical school in 1974, spent more thantwo years in Algeria as part of a Cuban aid program to that nation.
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