Cuban diaspora sends medicines to alleviate dire shortages


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Aug 2021

Marilys Colarte queues to check in two trolleys full of medical supplies to Cuba at Adolfo Suarez Barajas airport in Madrid August 4, 2021. Picture taken August 4, 2021. REUTERS/Juan Medina

MADRID/HAVANA (Reuters) - Wheeling two trolleys piled high with medical supplies, Marilys Colarte waits at Madrid airport to take her precious cargo to Cuba, where vital medicines are running low.

Colarte is part of a growing international network of volunteers from the Cuban diaspora who have been transporting tonnes of aid to the Caribbean island in recent months.

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