This initiative honors the memory of the late Commander Hugo Chavez and is promoted by social movements, the Simon Bolivar International Institute, the International University of Communications, political organizations of the Great Patriotic Pole, and the Venezuela-Cuba Mutual Friendship and Solidarity Movement.

The three-phase proposal seeks to gather material and financial support from the Venezuelan people in critical sectors for the acquisition of medical supplies, solar panels, food, and other aid to send to the island.

The national coordinator of the Solidarity Movement, Yhonny Garcia, explained that the campaign aims to offer “our support to the people who have given everything for this country.”

She quoted Marti’s thought that “those who rise up with Cuba today, rise up for all time” and recalled that for more than six decades the heroic Cuban people resisted “the systematic and criminal aggression” of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by various US administrations.

Garcia affirmed that this genocidal policy, far from breaking the island’s spirit, strengthened “its example of dignity before the world.”

She declared that in recent years, under the presidency of Donald Trump, the aggression intensified with “a brutal energy and economic strangulation” through a deliberate plan to “generate suffering and despair” in a people who are a symbol of resistance and humanism.

Faced with this imperial escalation, he expressed, the Venezuelan people, heirs to the greatness of the Liberator Simon Bolivar and the courage, honor, and glory of Supreme Commander Hugo Chavez and the bravery of Constitutional President Nicolas Maduro, raise their voices once again.

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