The Basque Country region of Spain is driving a campaign to send solar panels to hospitals in Cuba, with the support of leading cultural figures from the area.

In a statement released Monday, the association Euskadi-Cuba highlighted the initiative, which has received the endorsement of notable figures from the regional cultural scene, including Bernardo Atxaga, Itziar Ituño, Fermín Muguruza, Aitziber Garmendia, Eñaut Elorrieta, and Anari Alberdi.

The campaign's manifesto, titled "Let Cuba Live," states that the embargo imposed on the island by the United States over decades has severely hindered its development and the daily lives of its population.

The associations Euskadi-Cuba and Euskal Herria-Kuba Ekimena presented the initiative days ago at Bira Kultur Elkarte in Bilbao, with the goal of raising funds to finance solar energy equipment that would help alleviate the severe energy crisis currently affecting the island.

"We want to make a simple but effective gesture of solidarity with a people living through a difficult situation: send solar energy so they have light and power," the manifesto reads.

The document notes that since 1962, Cuba has lived under a U.S. blockade whose implicit objective is to economically strangle the island, generating scarcity and precariousness.

The manifesto further states that the administration of Donald Trump has intensified this policy through an oil blockade that causes prolonged power outages, severely limiting the functioning of essential services, including hospitals.