Cuba opens the door to receive aid from the US for $100 million dollars
Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, asked that Washington's offer “be free of political maneuvers”
The Cuban chancellor, Bruno Rodríguez, affirmed this Thursday that from the island they are “willing to listen to the characteristics of the offer and the way in which it would materialize” the offer of $100 million ones of dollars in “direct humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people” which the US reiterated at a time when the island is subjected to a Washington energy blockade and faces massive blackouts.
“For the first time, the US government formalizes publicly, through a statement from the State Department, an offer of aid to Cuba valued at $100 million,” the head of diplomacy acknowledged. Cuban in its social networks. Rodríguez added that if Havana is willing to listen to the offer, they hope that “it is free of political maneuvers and attempts to take advantage of the shortcomings and the pain of a people under siege.”
The U.S. Department of State announced in a statement on Wednesday May 13 that it was reiterating its offer of $100 million in “direct humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people, which would be distributed in coordination with the Catholic Church and other independent and trustworthy humanitarian organizations”. The note added that now it was Cuba who must “accept the offer or reject vital and crucial aid” for the island.
“Incongruity”
The head of Cuban diplomacy added in his message that there was “incongruity” in “the apparent generosity on part of q who subjects the Cuban people to collective punishment through economic war”, but indicated that “the Cuban government or it doesn't practice reject foreign aid”. He added that “it remains unclarified”whether it will be cash or material aid, and if it will be allocated to the most urgent needs of the moment for the people, such as fuel, food,and medicine”.
After pointing out that Havana has no problem in working with the Catholic Church, he indicated that “the best help that at this and at any time could give the U.S. government to the noble Cuban people or it is de-escalating the measures of the energy, economic, commercial and financial blockade, intensified like never before in recent months, which severely affects all sectors of the Cuban economy.”