Washington, February 8 (RHC)-- A first shipment of medical supplies valued at almost 200 thousand dollars and more than 500 thousand painkillers collected by solidarity efforts in the United States are being donated to the Cuban health care system.

This was confirmed by the Los Angeles Committee Hands Off Cuba, which coordinated the aid together with Global Health Partners, Not Just Tourists and a doctor graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Uriel Ramírez.

"Puentes de Amor" also joined the campaign of painkillers for Cuba, indicated a statement from the Los Angeles committee sent to Prensa Latina, which anticipated that the initiative will continue as part of the actions against the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the Caribbean country more than six decades ago.

The collection of the solidarity contribution was combined with information meetings and the establishment of new Hands Off Cuba committees in San Antonio, Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana.  These committees - the note emphasized - will also be represented in the delegation of Labor and Youth Activists that will travel to Cuba for the celebrations of International Workers' Day on May 1st.

On January 20th, in one of his first measures after taking office, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, reversed the order that only six days earlier had been issued by the then outgoing president, Joe Biden, who at the end of his term decided to remove Cuba from the arbitrary list of countries sponsoring terrorism.

Trump also revoked other provisions - late, but in the right direction - of the Democrat regarding Cuba.  Donald Trump returned to the extremist hardline policy that characterized his first administration (2017-2021), when he reinforced the blockade with 243 additional measures. 

[ SOURCE:  PRENSA LATINA ]