Organization Reports 14 U.S. Grain Companies Refused To Sell (At Market Price) Wheat Flour For To Cuba. Was Then Sourced And Exported From Turkiye To Cuba. Organization Refusing To Provide Details.
/U.S. Organization Reports 14 U.S. Grain Companies Refused To Sell (At Market Price) Wheat Flour For Export To Cuba. Shipment Was Ultimately Reported As Sourced In And Exported From Turkiye To Cuba.
Thus Far, U.S. Organization Will Not Disclose Identity Of Companies.
Other U.S. Organizations Have Purchased Agricultural Commodities For Export To The Republic Of Cuba And Reported No Issues With Identifying Sources.
LINK TO COMPLETE LIST OF PRODUCTS IN 2023 EXPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES TO CUBA
Peoples Dispatch
New York, New York
30 August 2024
Thousands of people in US send 800 tons of urgently needed flour to Cuba
US-based activists organized a massive flour distribution campaign to offset the effects of the deadly regime of US sanctions and the blockade against Cuba
On August 30, US-based activists delivered 800 tons of flour to Cuba via the “Let Cuba Live: Bread for our Neighbors” campaign. This campaign has been months in the making, with the US-based Peoples Forum raising hundreds of thousands in donations, and intends to offset the effects of the deadly regime of US sanctions and the blockade against Cuba. Over 1,300 people donated to the campaign.
“The concept of the campaign is simple: Cuba is our neighbor, and we can’t let our neighbors go hungry,” said Manolo De Los Santos, Executive Director of The People’s Forum. “This hunger is imposed directly by the White House, and Biden could end it right away by allowing Cuba to trade freely.”
Cuba is facing a significant food crisis due to the ongoing US economic war against the socialist island nation. Although, the US State Department claims that its blockade of Cuba exempts shipments of food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods. However, even US officials agree this does not reflect reality. As US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said back in March, “There’s a significant impediment to trade in Cuba because of [US] legislation that requires payment in advance in cash in US dollars which makes it very, very difficult for a lot of [agricultural] trade to take place.”
Campaign organizers themselves reported facing significant challenges in sourcing the bread for Cuba, despite receiving donations from thousands of people of conscience in the US.
“The campaign organizers reached out to 14 different grain producers in the US to purchase the massive order but received not a single positive response. In order to successfully complete the delivery, the grain had to be shipped from Turkey and suffered delays because of the US government’s policy of extreme and arbitrary harassment of Cuba’s foreign trade, which is meant to create desperation for the people of Cuba and has brutal consequences,” Bread for our Neighbors activists reported.
Peoples Forum
New York, New York
30 August 2024
”US$207,986.00 of US$400,000.00
1,358 Donors
What would you do if your neighbor was starving? This is not a hypothetical. Right now the U.S. government is deliberately starving the Cuban people 90 miles to our South. We all must act now.
A food crisis is unfolding on the island of an unprecedented scale. A country where hunger had been made a thing of the past is now running out of bread and other essential food items.
We are launching an emergency campaign — Let Cuba Live: Bread for Our Neighbors. Our goal is to send 800 tons of wheat flour to Cuba as legal humanitarian aid, so that millions of people have bread for a month. Can you join with thousands of others to make a donation, as you would for your neighbor next door?
We aren’t just trying to feed a family or a single block. We want to bring bread to whole provinces. A $100 donation gets us enough wheat flour to produce 70,000 bread rolls.
The U.S. could end this suffering quickly if it were to lift the blockade and remove Cuba from the “State Sponsors of Terrorism List,” which Trump absurdly imposed on the island five years ago. This has totally blocked Cuba from a broad range of financial and trade transactions and made it impossible to get international credits.
As an example: in the last three weeks we called 14 grain companies in the United States offering to pay market rate for grain to go to Cuba as urgent humanitarian aid. We haven’t received a single positive reply.
This cannot stand. All people of conscience in the United States have to speak up and take action to let Cuba live. We’ve all been outraged to see the urgent aid for Rafah blocked at the border, while famine stalks the Palestinian people. We can’t allow the same thing to happen directly to our south. Please make a donation today — give bread to our neighbor.
Once the wheat flour arrives in Cuba, it will be received and distributed by the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Center in Havana, Cuba. The People's Forum will match all donations up $100,000.
Please make a donation today — give bread to our neighbor.
To donate by check:
Make check out to: The People's Forum
On memo line write: "Bread For Our Neighbors" (*do not write Cuba on the check!*)
Mail to:
The People's Forum
320 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018”
Agencia Cubana De Noticias (ACN)
Havana, Republic of Cuba
30 August 2024
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 30 (ACN) Some 800 tons of wheat flour was donated to Cuba by the US organization The People's Forum, and according to Manolo de los Santos, its executive director, many hands from all over the world offered solidarity help to achieve it…. The young friend of the Island, based in New York, denounced the genocide that constitutes the blockade of the US government against Cuba, and gave as an example that for this donation they talked to 14 different companies in the US and none dared to sell that flour, they had to look for others as far away as Turkey, when it is only 90 miles away from Cuba, he said.
