The Let Cuba Live campaign continues to move hearts in the United States today with the goal of raising $100,000 to purchase food and electricity generators for the island.
This is a coordinated effort between the organizations The People’s Forum, The Hatuey Project and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which, according to figures changing in real time through the Internet, has already raised more than 88 thousand dollars of the total planned (https://secure.givelively.org/donate/peoples-forum-inc/let-cuba-live-donate-for-urgent-humanitarian-aid).
“Yes, we are buying food and power plants,” confirmed in a message to Prensa Latina activist Manolo De Los Santos, co-executive director of The People’s Forum, referring to this urgent campaign after the energy emergency in the Caribbean country.
The appeal says that “at this moment, Cuba is facing a serious moment of crisis. In the midst of a devastating power outage, a hurricane and the ongoing brutal US blockade, the Cuban people face urgent conditions that threaten their lives.”
Imagine – the text added – “if your neighbor’s house went dark and his family without food or electricity. Would he sit idly by or would he help? Right now, just 90 miles from our shores, this is the reality for millions of Cuban families.”
The call recalled that natural disasters and the deliberate attempt by the United States Government to strangle the Cuban economy and limit its ability to trade have caused a serious situation in Cuba, which is why “we must act now.”
The organizations agreed that the Cuban people are resilient. “They have faced more than 65 years of a cruel US blockade, but this moment is unique: the triple threat of blockade, hurricane and blackout makes this moment especially urgent,” they warned.
On Tuesday, The People’s Forum published a letter in The New York Times demanding that the President of the United States, Joe Biden, reverse in his last 90 days in office the brutal policy of his predecessor, Donald Trump, towards Cuba.
In more than six decades, the blockade cost Cuba more than 164 billion dollars in damages and about five billion dollars in losses in the last year alone (March 2023 to February 2024), the letter said, reiterating that the United States is left alone every year before the UN General Assembly while the world condemns this policy.
This devastating blackout is just one aspect of the United States’ legacy of causing suffering on the island through this policy of suffocation, he argued.
“Trump’s brutal policy must be reversed. It is not too late to do the right thing,” the message to Biden stressed.
Cuba is currently working to return to normality after the total disconnection suffered by the National Electric System on October 18.
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