Huracán Melissa: Venezuela envía ayuda humanitaria a Cuba y Jamaica
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46 toneladas de insumos como un gesto que coincide con el 25 aniversario del convenio de cooperación que dio origen al ALBA.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil announced on Thursday from Maiquetía International Airport the shipment of 46 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba and Jamaica to address the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa .

The diplomat detailed that 26 tons of medical, food and infrastructure supplies were dispatched on a Conviasa airline flight to Cuba, while another 20 tons were destined for Jamaica to assist the population.

Gil also announced that a ship carrying more than 3,000 tons of aid to the Republic of Cuba is being prepared and will set sail in the coming days as part of the cooperation operation .

The Venezuelan foreign minister stressed that the shipment is being made within the framework of the 25th anniversary of the Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement signed by Commanders Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro , an alliance that, he indicated, laid the foundations for the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America ( ALBA ).

“It is a brotherhood agreement , an example of how relations between states should be,” Gil stated, emphasizing that this cooperation framework allows for responding to climate emergencies.

Solidarity in the face of imperial aggression

Present at the event, the Cuban ambassador to Venezuela, Jorge Luis Mayo Fernández , thanked President Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan people for what he called “a battalion of reinforcements ,” emphasizing that Venezuela’s solidarity with Cuba is "permanent and systematic . "

The diplomat stressed that this aid is crucial for the eastern region of the island, whose recovery from previous weather events has been hampered by the “policy of blockade and suffocation of imperialism.”

Mayo Fernández contrasted this model of cooperation with the actions of other powers. “While the empire pressures and threatens the peoples of our America, our sister nation of Venezuela crosses the Caribbean with ships and planes of solidarity, with planes of love ,” she asserted.

“Threats and aircraft carriers are not being transported; food and medicine are being transported. This is the example that relations between all countries of the world should follow,” the ambassador pointed out, emphasizing that Venezuela provides this support “even amidst the pressures and sanctions it faces.”