(EFE) .- The Nicaraguan Government sent a shipment of food and supplies to Cuba today to alleviate the shortage that the island is experiencing, which has deepened with the covid-19 pandemic.
The aid consisted of 50 containers of rice and beans, and a container of household goods, with a total weight calculated at 1,007 tons, the Nicaraguan government reported, through official media.
The cargo, which could arrive in Cuba in the middle of next week, set sail from the Arlen Siu port, 292 kilometers east of Managua, on the Nicaraguan merchant ship Augusto C. Sandino.
This is the third shipment of food that Nicaragua sends to the island, after one of 30 containers with food in August and another in September.
This is the third shipment of food that Nicaragua sends to the island, after one of 30 containers with food last August and another of similar proportions and products in September.
Nicaraguan aid to Cuba began to flow after the demonstrations of inhabitants of the island last July, due to the lack of food and medicine in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic.
The relationships between Nicaragua and Cuba have been close every time the former Sandinista guerrilla Daniel Ortega has been in power, first between 1979 and 1990, and later from 2007.
Both countries are part of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (Alba), led by the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.
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