“I am retired, but it wounds me that they seek to exterminate the brotherly people of Cuba for their ideals of freedom and defense of sovereignty,” the former president, who served from 2018 to 2024, expressed last night on social media.

The former leader reminded “those who think this is someone else’s fight” of what “General Lazaro Cardenas said during the Bay of Pigs invasion: ‘It is not right to advocate indifference to their heroic struggle, because their fate is our own.'”

“Therefore,” he added, “I invite everyone to deposit funds into Banorte account 1358451779, belonging to the civil association Humanity with Latin America, opened by citizens, writers, and journalists to purchase food, medicine, oil, and gasoline, and to help the Cuban people. Let everyone contribute what they can!”

The newspaper La Jornada called on Tuesday for support for Cuba and published the aforementioned bank account, which is intended to collect financial contributions from those who wish to cooperate in acquiring products to be sent to the Caribbean nation, amidst the tightening of the blockade imposed by the United States.

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