At least $150,730 has been raised so far by the “Let Cuba Live” campaign, which set a goal of $100,000 in its first appeal.
This is the second shipment destined for the Cuban province of Guantanamo (East), coordinated by the organizations The People’s Forum, the Party of Socialism and Liberation, and the Hatuey Project.
The 46 generators in the shipment “will play a vital role as the Cuban people work tirelessly to bring relief to those affected by the terrible crisis plaguing the country due to the cruel US blockade,” a statement stresses.
The first 30 tons of food purchased in the United States by the campaign arrived in Cuba last week.
The organizations agreed that the Cuban people are resilient. “They have faced a cruel US blockade for more than 65 years, but this moment is unique: the triple threat of blockade, hurricane and power outage makes this moment especially urgent,” they warn.
In six decades, the blockade has cost Cuba more than $164 billion in damages, and about $5 billion in losses in the last year alone (March 2023 to February 2024).
Yesterday, at the UN General Assembly, the voice of the international community was unequivocal, as 187 countries voted in favor of the resolution on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo of the United States of America against Cuba.
The annual vote – which took place for the 32nd time – showed Washington’s isolation in this suffocating policy imposed on the neighboring nation more than six decades ago.
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