Thursday, August 11, 2022

Appeal to Canada to help to Cuba fight the oil depot catastrophe in Matanzas


 

Canadian Network on Cuba – Working in  Friendship & Solidarity with   Cuba www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca  cncexec@canadiannetworkoncuba.ca

 

 


 

The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs Canada
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6


The Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, P.C., M.P.

Minister of International Development
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6

 

August 10th, 2022

To the Honourable Mélanie Joly,

To the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, P.C., M.P.,

 

The Canadian Network on Cuba is making this urgent appeal to Canadian Government to immediately send material aid in the face of the supertanker facility accident at Cuba’s main oil terminal in Matanzas, Cuba.  Hundreds of Cuban firefighters and others are working in flat-out impossible conditions.   More than a hundred people have been injured and hospitalized, and 17 are missing.

 

The Canadian Network on Cuba, comprised of 23 solidarity organizations from Victoria to Halifax, asks the Canadian government to join other countries, such as Mexico and Venezuela, who are helping Cuba at this dire time. 

 

The illegal, cruel US blockade of Cuba has deliberately cut Cuba off from getting basic materials desperately needed for treating burn victims from this disaster, as well as extinguishing a fire of this nature and dimension.

 

Canada has a long history of diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba and has consistently voted at the United Nations to condemn the US Blockade against Cuba.

 

Now is the time to stand up and be counted by sending urgently needed medical supplies to treat the burn victims and help vulnerable people from the air pollutants created by the toxic smoke.  We are less than 4 hours flight from Cuba. Canada needs to send what is needed - Now. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Samantha Hislop, email: hislopsamantha@gmail.com

Julio Fonseca, email: jfonseca@rogers.com

Co-Chairs, Canadian Network on Cuba

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