“What moves us is solidarity with a people who have always been and continue to be willing to help,” Pudahuel Mayor Italo Bravo said at a political and cultural event at the Guacolda sports club.

Bravo remembered Cuba’s presence during climate emergencies and health crises in different parts of the world with its medical brigades.

He asked, “How many doctors does this country and the world owe to Cuba? How much culture, education, and scientific innovation are at the service of the peoples?”

Hundreds of persons from social, political, and territorial organizations participated in the event, held in the northwestern district of the capital.

Meanwhile, friends of Cuba gathered at the Teachers’ College in Penalolen, at the foot of the Andes Mountains, to raise funds for the island, which is facing a tightening blockade and threats of invasion from the United States.

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