Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has invited Mexicans to make deposits into an account opened by citizens, writers, and journalists to purchase food, medicines, oil, and gasoline intended for the people of Cuba.
“I am in retirement, but it pains me that they seek to exterminate—due to their ideals of freedom and defense of sovereignty—the brotherly people of Cuba,” stated the man who served as this country’s president from 2018 to 2024, speaking last night via the social network X.
The former head of state reminded “those who think this is someone else’s fight” of what “General (Lázaro) Cárdenas said during the Bay of Pigs invasion: ‘It is not permissible to advocate for our indifference in the face of their heroic struggle, for their fate is our own.’”
“Consequently,” he added, “I invite everyone to make deposits into Banorte account 1358451779, held by the civil association *Humanidad con América Latina* (Humanity with Latin America)—an account opened by citizens, writers, and journalists to purchase food, medicines, oil, and gasoline, and to help the Cuban people. Let everyone contribute whatever they can!”
On Tuesday, the newspaper *La Jornada* issued a call to back Cuba and publicized the aforementioned bank account, which is intended to collect financial contributions from those wishing to cooperate in acquiring goods to be sent to the Caribbean nation, amidst the intensification of the blockade imposed by the United States.
“We issue a firm call for solidarity with the Cuban people and for an end to arrogant and aggressive unilateralism,” declared the more than 200 signatories—including writer Elena Poniatowska, Spanish intellectual Ignacio Ramonet, and executives from the media outlet—through their appeal. In the document titled “Cuba’s Destiny Is Not Alien to Us,” they likewise urged support for “all governmental or citizen actions undertaken with the aim of protecting human well-being, integrity, and dignity” in the Caribbean nation.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
