A new shipment of solidarity aid was prepared in Venezuela on Monday, May 11th to support the Cuban people with essential medical supplies, in a context of the tightening of the US economic, commercial, financial, and oil blockade against the island.
The shipment, which departed Tuesday for Cuba, consists of 41 boxes of essential medicines, collected and organized by the Venezuela-Cuba Friendship and Mutual Solidarity Movement and activists from the Carabobo region.
Yhonny García, coordinator of the Venezuela-Cuba Friendship and Mutual Solidarity Movement, stated that the donation is part of the “Love is Repaid with Love” campaign, launched on February 25, with the goal of sending food, medicine, and energy supplies to Cuba to mitigate the impact of the U.S. blockade.
This effort was coordinated with the participation of social and grassroots movements, which have successfully organized three phases of donation collection throughout the country, totaling more than 34 tons of aid sent to the island so far.
The shipment comes primarily from the solidarity organization in Carabobo state, where Flor Elisa Pérez, coordinator of the Carabobo Chapter of the Movement, highlighted the collective effort during three weeks of intensive work to complete the logistics, sort the medicines, and deliver the 41 boxes to Caracas.
Pérez expressed that it is “extremely gratifying” to deliver what the people of Carabobo have collected, describing each donation as a hug and each medicine as an act of conscious love.
The movement reaffirmed that true friendship between peoples knows no blockades or distances, recalling that Cuba has always extended its hand of solidarity to the world, and that now Carabobo responds with loyalty, gratitude, and commitment.
This new shipment joins other shipments sent by Venezuela since the beginning of the campaign. The latest shipment, which arrived in Havana on May 6, included nearly six tons of food, constituting the sixth batch of solidarity aid coordinated by the Simón Bolívar Institute and the Venezuela-Cuba Friendship and Solidarity Movement.
These actions are taking place amidst an aggressive policy by the Donald Trump administration, which maintains and intensifies the unilateral blockade against Cuba, in defiance of numerous resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly demanding its lifting.
The aid is primarily directed to hospitals, medical clinics, and homes, helping to alleviate the impact of the shortage of supplies.
In this context, the president of the Simón Bolívar Institute, Blanca Eekhout, affirmed that the people of Bolívar will not abandon Cuba, reiterating that the region’s destiny will always be one of victory, unity, solidarity, and love.
IMAGE CREDIT: Activists from the Venezuela-Cuba Friendship and Solidarity Movement prepare 41 boxes of medicines as part of the “Love is Repaid with Love” campaign. Photo: EFE
[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]
