International convoy advance begins delivery of medicines in Cuba
The contingent, made up of 120 activists, arrived on the Havana airport on Tuesday night time with medical provides and different important objects valued at $500,000 and destined for hospital facilities in the nation.
The support comes at a time when Cuba, with 9.6 million inhabitants, faces a extreme financial disaster, aggravated by the abrupt suspension in January of crude oil provides from Venezuela, after the autumn of Nicolás Maduro in a US navy intervention, and the de facto oil blockade that Washington imposes on the island.
The activists are half of Our America Convoy, a global initiative supported by local weather activist Greta Thunberg, which plans to carry greater than 20 tons of meals, medication and photo voltaic power gear to the island.
In the afternoon, the donated medicines and provides have been delivered to a number of well being facilities in Havana, together with maternal, oncological and pediatric hospitals.
“We are very grateful for this collaboration” which is of “vital help” for the hospital “in such difficult times,” Otto Rafael Recio, director of a gynecobstetric hospital in Havana, informed AFP.
For her half, the Greek activist, Despina Markou, commented that “this is a very difficult time that the Cuban people are going through (…) and all the peoples of the world have to show solidarity.”
Local media reported that this Wednesday different members of the group left Chile for Havana with “medicines, supplies and food to help Cuba in the face of the tightening of the energy blockade imposed by the United States.”
Likewise, about 140 folks from the United States will fly from Miami on Friday to affix the worldwide convoy.
A flotilla from Mexico is predicted to reach in Havana this weekend.
The convoy, organized by a global coalition of actions, unionists, legislators, humanitarian organizations and public figures, has already introduced that it’s getting ready a big solidarity exercise in Havana.
Among the personalities that comprise it are Pablo Iglesias, former Spanish politician and founder of the left-wing celebration Podemos; Irish punk-rap group Kneecap; Brazilian local weather activist Thiago Ávila and British politician Jeremy Corbin, based on an announcement launched Wednesday by the organizers.
“For more than six decades the United States blockade has tried to suffocate Cuba” and “now Donald Trump’s administration is escalating that siege,” mentioned member of the British Parliament Jeremy Corbyn quoted in the assertion.
But “the majority of people around the world are on the side of the Cuban people,” mentioned the previous chief of the Labor Party.
For his half, Iglesias commented that “defending the Cuban people is defending sovereignty and freedom against the criminal logic of the US blockade.”
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