In a post on her social network account X, she said that se traveled to the Caribbean country with her own resources and outside of plenary sessions to join this international collective.

“We brought sanitary towels and medicine. Donald Trump’s silent war is leading Cuba to collapse,” lamented the city councilor of Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais state.

As a result of the US president policies, who tightened the blockade imposed on the island for more than 60 years, Lourença described drug shortages, littering in the streets, and children being unable to attend school.

In hospitals, there is a risk that neonatal intensive care units cannot continue to operate, she warned.

Despite this complex scenario, he noted that “the brave Cuban people continue to resist, praying, dancing and aware of their strength”.

During her stay in the Antillean nation, the councillor, a member of the Socialism and Freedom Party, had reflected on her social media the impressions of that trip.

The Cuban people, with all their historical resistance, are facing what is perhaps the largest economic blockade against the country in recent decades, she wrote on the fifth day of her visit.

No oil is coming to the island from anywhere, and the consequence are blackouts, lamented Lourença, and warned that this is part of Trump’s grand plan and fascism for Latin America: recover territories and destroy the revolutionary symbols these countries carry in their history.

The anti-imperialist struggle and Latin American solidarity have never been more important, she added, pointing out that the only medicines arriving in Cuba are donations.

She then said that the situation is difficult, “but I am also seeing beautiful things and meeting wonderful people, which keeps me believing in our strength.”

On January 29, Trump issued an executive order declaring Cuba an unusual and extraordinary threat, and authorizing the imposition of tariffs on any country that sells or supplies oil to the island.

In the face of this measure and its impact on living conditions in the Caribbean country, a great campaign of international solidarity was unleashed that led to the mobilization of people from many nations, with initiatives such as the Convoy Nuestra América, which began arriving in Havana last week.

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