This first token of love from the workers and the people from Las Tunas was sent to Guantánamo in a caravan presided over by Odalis Batista Pérez, secretary-general of the CTC Provincial Committee.

The Central Union of Cuban Workers (CTC in Spanish) and its national trade unions have called for solidarity with their compatriots in Guantánamo, who suffered significant losses of material goods as a result of the passage of Hurricane Oscar.

Las Tunas, Cuba. The workers' movement of Las Tunas took up the call as an act of humanism and extended its arms of solidarity to the inhabitants of the areas most damaged by the meteorological event. In a few days, it formed a suitcase with donations made by state and private workers from all sectors.

Wilkenis Tamayo, a member of the CTC Secretariat in the province, explained that the response was immediate. He said different items arrived at the municipal committees of the workers' organization that will contribute to alleviating some of the victims' most pressing needs.

He described the gesture as a generous one that acquires greater relevance because it materializes in difficult times, of many shortages, ‘but, he said, our people and workers are accustomed to giving not what they have left over, but to share what they have as a principle instilled by the unforgettable Commander in Chief and cultivated by the Revolution’.

“The response, he reiterated, exceeded expectations, and in an act of love, of conscious detachment, state and non-state sector workers and new economic actors have mobilized in record time, and together they have collected clothes, toiletries, food, two televisions and other resources that make up the shipment.”