A campaign urges Vietnamese to make donations at the Military Commercial Joint Bank to “support the Cuban people.”
Lima, Peru-The Red Cross of Vietnam has raised more than 219,000 million dongs (about 8,338,000 dollars) to donate the Cuban regime, as part of a campaign that seeks to commemorate the 65 years of Vietnam-Cuba friendship.
A state report Latin press He points out that the initiative was amplified in the city of Haboi by the VTV24 news website, belonging to the Digital Content Production and Development Center (VTV Digital).
The campaign exhorted the Vietnamese to make donations through the 2022 account of the Military Commercial Joint Bank to “support the Cuban people”, a charity speech that the Havana regime encourages under the facade of “attacked country” and that to date has not resulted in palpable benefits for citizens on the island.
The goal initially set by the campaign was to raise 65,000 million Dongs (more than 2,470,000 dollars) and it was duplicated by the eve. According to the official Castro press, more than 598,368 people and entities added for then 125,320 million Dong (about 4,770,000 dollars).
Rogelio Polanco, Cuba ambassador to Vietnam, said that “this campaign has penetrated the deepest of the Vietnamese people, than It shows your generosityaltruism and human value by a nation that is thousands of kilometers away. ”
The regime diplomat took advantage of the donation to make “a call to international solidarity.” The call occurs at a time of severe crisis in Cuba, marked by the cracking of its health, transportation, inflation crisis, inflation, loss of value of the Cuban weight and the shortage of food.
“That peoples can join to express in a clear, sincere and forceful way the love we feel when a nation is being attacked, as the Cuban nation is being today,” Polanco said in allusion to the US embargo, for decades the main scapegoat before the bad policies and errors of the government of the island.
Vietnam and To Lam, strategic allies of the Cuban regime
Tô Lâm, general secretary of the Communist Party and president of Vietnam, is a key figure in the foreign policy of his country and a strategic ally of the Cuban regime. His name is familiar to Cubans by His official visit to Havana, from September 25 to 27, 2024where he was received with honors by the dome of communist power.
According to An article Published by the official International Policy Information Center (CIPI), it was the first visit of Tô Lâm to Cuba as head of state, and the second international tour after assuming the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam. During his stay on the island, he held meetings with Raúl Castro, Miguel Díaz-Canel, Esteban Lazo and Manuel Marrero, and was awarded with the José Martí order, the highest distinction granted by the Cuban state.
According to the same source, the visit of General Vietnamese had a “transcendental” character for consolidating what both governments qualify as a “special and traditional friendship.” The tour included the firm of multiple agreements, including memoranda of understanding in agricultural, financial, educational, ideological and partisan, in addition to a commitment to produce rice in Cuba with Vietnamese technology.
Tô Lâm had already visited Cuba in 2022, then as Minister of Public Security, a position equivalent to that of the Interior Minister. On both occasions, he met with Raúl Castro, which reinforces his proximity to the toughest sectors of the Cuban regime. Vietnam has repeatedly expressed its support for Havana in multilateral forums, and has demanded the end of the US embargo and the exclusion of Cuba from the list of sponsoring countries of terrorism, prepared by Washington.
During his 2024 visit, the communist leader toured the Special Mariel Development Zonewhere Vietnamese companies operate, and cooperation agreements between Cuban and Vietnamese provinces were formalized, as well as among the central banks of both countries. It was also agreed that 2025 will be declared “Year of Friendship Cuba-Vietnam”.
