It is a coordinated effort between the organizations The People’s Forum, The Hatuey Project and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which, according to the changing figures in real time through the Internet, has already raised more than 87,000 dollars of the total planned.

“Yes, we are buying food and power plants,” confirmed in a message to Prensa Latina activist Manolo De Los Santos, co-executive director of The People’s Forum when referring to this urgent campaign following the energy emergency in Cuba.

The appeal says that “at this moment, Cuba is facing a serious moment of crisis. Amidst a devastating power outage, a hurricane and the ongoing brutal US blockade, the Cuban people face urgent, life-threatening conditions.”

The call recalled that natural disasters and the U.S. government’s deliberate attempt to strangle Cuba’s economy and limit its ability to trade have led to a serious situation in Cuba, which is why “we must act now.”

On Tuesday The People’s Forum published a letter in The New York Times demanding that U.S. President Joe Biden reverse in his last 90 days in office the brutal policy of his predecessor, Donald Trump, toward Cuba.

In more than six decades, the blockade has cost Cuba more than 164 billion dollars in damages and about five billion dollars in losses in the last year only (March 2023 to February 2024), the letter reiterated that every year the United States is left alone before the UN General Assembly while the world condemns this policy.

This devastating blackout is just one aspect of the U.S. legacy of causing suffering on the island through this policy of suffocation, it argued.

“Trump’s brutal policy must be reversed. It is not too late to do the right thing,” the message to Biden stressed.

Cuba is currently working to return to normalcy after the total collapse of the National Electric Power System on October 18.

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