On August 7, a Cubana de Aviación cargo jet arrived at Maiquetía International Airport, north of Caracas. In addition to the 16 crew members, flight number 3310 brought to Venezuela 280 empty oxygen cylinders for hospital use, which belonged to the Cuban Medical Mission.
By Dialogo – Digital Military Magazine
Aug 19, 2021
That same day, a Cuban Navy patrol vessel set sail from the Port of La Guaira, on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, carrying 1,288 cylinders, already filled, to be transported straight to Santiago de Cuba.
“That boat arrived on August 5, and it literally went to get oxygen […]. The plane is to return the cylinders, because they don’t have any more,” said Alberto Ray, a consultant and director at the Risk Awareness Council, a U.S.-based organization dedicated to the analysis of security problems in the Americas.
The oxygen tanks are further proof of the support offered by Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to his Cuban counterpart Miguel Díaz-Canel, following the heated popular protests that began on the island in early July.
On July 13, as street manifestations continued to unfold, Maduro publicly declared his support for Díaz-Canel. Four days later, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez traveled to Havana to assess ways for immediate cooperation with the Cuban president.
It was then that agreements began to refill oxygen tanks, necessary for treating coronavirus patients in intensive care units. These tanks are scarce in Venezuela. In late July, National Assembly representative Manuela Bolívar said on Twitter that the lack of oxygen in most hospitals in Venezuela was worsening.
In addition, Venezuela has been sending cowpeas, rice, and soup to Cuba. The cowpeas distributed on the island are included in the boxes of Venezuela’s food program, better known as the CLAP, the Cuban independent news portal 14ymedio.com reported. According to the website, grain production is lower than the requirements of the CLAP.
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