The aid consisted of 50 containers of rice and beans, and a container of household goods.
The Government of Nicaragua sent a shipment of food and supplies to Cuba this Sunday, to alleviate the shortage that the island is experiencing, and 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 shipment, which could arrive in Cuba in the middle of next week, set sail from the Arlen Siu port, 292 kilometers east of Managua, on a Nicaraguan merchant ship.
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 street demonstrations by the island’s inhabitants last July, due to the lack of food and medicine in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Relations between Nicaragua and Cuba have been close every time that 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. (I)
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