The acquisition and shipment to Cuba of solar panels for hospitals and schools, along with highly needed medical supplies and food, are the goals that various organizations and personalities in Argentina have set for themselves today.

In a growing and active gesture of friendship with the people of the island, funds and materials are being collected in several Argentine cities, an action coordinated by the Argentine Movement of Solidarity with Cuba (MASCuba), alongside parallel initiatives by various groups. Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Córdoba are the epicenters of this humanitarian initiative, with support from groups in other cities.

Alberto Más, a member of the leadership of the Casa de la Amistad based in Buenos Aires, told Prensa Latina that in just five days since launching the call last Wednesday, they have already received more than nine million pesos ($6,122) for the acquisition of the proposed solidarity aid. "And the account keeps growing," he indicated.

In Córdoba, at the initiative of professionals graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine, members of the group Mil por Cuba and others in solidarity with the island will meet on Saturday the 21st to analyze the serious crisis the people are experiencing due to the U.S. blockade and the threats of military aggression.

Among other points, they will propose solidarity measures that can and should be carried out for Cuba from Córdoba, political commentator Sergio Ortiz, leader of the Liberation Party, told Prensa Latina.

From Rosario, the main city of Santa Fe province, Norberto Galiotti informed Prensa Latina that they are promoting with the Continental Network of Solidarity with Cuba and Just Causes the initiative to acquire and send solar panels and medical supplies.

In Rosario—he elaborated—"we are working with various sectors, even organizing a rock festival titled 'Urgent Song for Cuba'."

Galiotti, who is the coordinator from Argentina of the Continental Network, assured that from all Latin American countries they have joined the solidarity campaign to purchase solar panels destined for healthcare areas, such as operating rooms, intensive care units, neonatology wards, and schools. "This solidarity action has mobilized many people," noted Galiotti, who said he has contacted electrical engineers from several countries who will join this campaign, and cited the support of the Electrical Energy Union of Barranquilla, Colombia.

The activist elaborated that among the organizations participating in the initiative are professionals such as doctors and artists, the educators' union (AMSAFE), the provincial state workers' union, the university professors' union, the electrical workers' union (Luz y Fuerza), Cooperativa La Toma, the Permanent Assembly, and the Argentine League for Human Rights.

Also contributing to the solidarity campaign are the chemical and petrochemical unions, the judicial workers' union of Santa Fe, the Communist Party, the Authentic Socialist Party, and the Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist Party, along with the Casa de la Amistad of Rosario.