Mexico City, Oct 31 (Prensa Latina) Cubans residing in Mexico have begun collecting food and medicine to support the island, following Hurricane Melissa’s passage through the eastern part of the Caribbean nation, with damages that are still being assessed.
“We have set up a collection center. We are asking the Mexican people, who have always been supportive, to contribute powdered milk, canned food, syringes, gauze, cotton, paracetamol,” and other medications, activist Olivia Garza told Prensa Latina.
According to the vice president of the José Martí Association of Cuban Residents in Mexico, the center is located in the La Habana Vieja Cafeteria, in this capital.
“Solidarity cannot be blocked. Cubans residing in Mexico and supportive friends will step forward to support the Cuban people in these times of emergency,” he said.
The phenomenon, which was a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale when it hit the Caribbean country, entered on Wednesday through a point in the southeast of the island, where it caused severe flooding, as well as material damage to homes and agriculture in the eastern provinces.
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