Cuba received a cargo of more than 20 tons of Humanitarian aid of Belarus whose purpose is to attend the victims of the natural disasters that affected the island last year.
It would be food and medical supplies, according to the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguezwho thanked from the social network X.
After the passage of hurricanes Oscar and Rafael, in October and November, to which they added the effects of two earthquakes, of magnitude 6 and 6.8, registered in the southeast on November 17, Cuba has received a wave of donations.
The damages counted by the severe coup of those natural disasters in the last year, according to official data cited by EFE, They include more than 34,000 homes, 37,000 hectares of agricultural production and in a group of facilities in that sector, and severe ravages to electricity, water and communications services.
His impacts joined the complicated economic situation that Cuba suffers, plunged for more than five years in a serious crisis that translates into the shortage of basic products, prolonged blackouts, galloping inflation, a growing dollarization and an unprecedented migratory wave.
Oscar – the first hurricane who touched Cuban territory in the last season – hit the eastern province of Guantanamo with winds of more than 130 kilometers per hour.
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Shortly after, Hurricane Rafael crossed from South to North to Artemisa province, turned into a category 3 cyclone, affected some 800,000 people from that area and its neighboring Mayabeque, Havana and the island of Youth.
In addition, the earthquakes that hit the provinces of Granma and Santiago de Cuba caused damage to housing and key infrastructure and also an energy emergency that disconnected the national electrical system.
Due to these natural catastrophes, the governments of Mexico, Japan, Spain, Russia, Venezuela and Norway – between others – as well as the central fund for action in cases of emergency UN and through actions coordinated by multilateral organisms and NGOs have also sent humanitarian aids.
