The funds collected will be used to address the emergency caused by the climatic phenomenon, considered as one of the three most intense that shook the Caribbean nation.

In a meeting with representatives of groups and collectives of solidarity, the ambassador of Cuba to Chile, Oscar Cornelio Oliva, explained that Melissa entered the country with winds of 195 kilometers per hour and rushes over 200 kilometers.

According to preliminary data, the hurricane damaged more than 90,000 homes, 5,000 of them in total, and also affected 461 health facilities and 1,552 educational centers.

In agriculture, losses are high and threaten the food security of about three million people, he said.

The diplomat also referred to the effects on telephons and electricity, as well as other infrastructures, including roads, railways, dams and heritage assets.

Despite all the impacts, there was no loss of a single human life and this was achieved thanks to the evacuation of 735,000 people before the hurricane and tens of thousands more after the passage of the meteor due to flooding, reported the ambassador.

Melissa entered the island with category three on the Saffir-Simpson scale and hit the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Las Tunas, Holguin, Granma and Guantanamo.

The Solidarity Movement will hold its XXIX National Meeting on November 28 and 29 in Valparaíso, the fifth region of the country, where it will take stock of work in 2025 and agree actions for 2026 when it is the centenary of the birth of the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro.

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