Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Caracas, October 30 - The Venezuelan government today sent 26 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba and 20 tons to Jamaica as part of the relief efforts following the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa, which severely impacted the Caribbean islands.
From Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, La Guaira state (northern Venezuela), Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil announced the shipment, accompanied by the Cuban ambassador to Caracas, Jorge Luis Mayo, and other authorities.
Gil stated that he will travel with the Vice Minister for the Caribbean, Raúl Li Causi, to deliver the aid to the people and authorities of Santiago de Cuba and other eastern regions severely affected by the natural phenomenon last Tuesday.
The high-ranking diplomat announced that this shipment marks the beginning of a humanitarian aid operation to deliver supplies to Cuba and Jamaica following the hurricane that damaged infrastructure in both countries and caused deaths in Jamaica.
He noted that the supplies sent include medicine, food, and infrastructure to address the emergency.
He also announced the preparation of a ship that will depart for the island in the coming days with more than 3,000 tons of aid.
The Venezuelan Foreign Minister emphasized that this show of solidarity coincides with the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement between Cuba and Venezuela, signed by Commanders Hugo Chávez (1954-2013) and Fidel Castro (1926-2016).
This alliance, he emphasized, was the seed of what is today ALBA-TCP and of what is “the true effort for the union of peoples,” as the Bolivarian leader said at the time.
He highlighted that this union is based on solidarity, on a Latin American system sustained by values ??“beyond trade” and the integration systems achieved up to that point.
Gil expressed that the vision of those two great leaders made it possible “to create a new form of union,” as manifested today by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP, for its acronym in Spanish).
He asserted that while other countries focus on threatening the peace of the Caribbean and its destabilization, Venezuela and the Bolivarian Alliance are leading the way.
The Cuban ambassador, for his part, thanked President Nicolás Maduro and his government for this new act of solidarity, which, he opined, is not confined to that plane and ship, but rather is expressed constantly toward Cuba by the Bolivarian Revolution.
He pointed out that while the U.S. empire pressures and threatens the countries of the region with weapons, Venezuela crosses the Caribbean with ships and planes of love and solidarity.
It is not cruise ships or aircraft carriers that travel, but food and medicine, which is the example that relations between all countries of the world should follow, he emphasized. (Source: Prensa Latina)
