Prensa Latina reported through a text that the MESC specifically referred to two containers of humanitarian aid, one from the Catalan Coordinator of Solidarity with Cuba, “Defensem Cuba,” and the other from the NGO Sodepaz.

The MESC denounced the unjustified withholding of two shipments of solidarity aid for Cuba, sent from Catalonia and Madrid by decision of two international shipping companies, which are fearful of sanctions from the United States government.

The source specified that both shipments have been blocked for more than two weeks in the Caribbean ports, preventing their arrival in Santiago de Cuba.

The MESC underscored in the release that this is not an isolated case. “It adds to the growing difficulties Cuba faces in receiving essential goods,” it noted.

The MESC explained elsewhere in its statement that the performance of certain shipping companies “shows their collaboration with the extraterritorial application of the blockade, even though European Union (EU) legislation itself includes mechanisms to protect European companies from US sanctions.” jdt/iff/to/ft