The regime expands its solar capacity with support from sympathetic organisations on the continent, which are also activating colloquia and mobilisation actions
14ymedio, Madrid, 11 June 2026 / From this Wednesday, half the energy demand of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) can be met by the new photovoltaic grid project installed at this university study centre for foreign students. The project was promoted by MediCuba Europa, headquartered in Switzerland, which has already carried out several schemes at the ELAM and other institutions in Cuba.
According to the official press, the panels have a total installed capacity of 208 kWp, and the polyclinic and a study courtyard are protected from power cuts by batteries that have been installed, “contributed by international solidarity to support this beautiful Cuban internationalist project”.
This project forms part of the programme known as Energy for Life, designed to provide electrical supply to health institutions on the Island and funded by donations made to a MediCuba Europa account at a Swiss bank. The official Cuban press states that the organisation has the participation of NGOs from 13 European states “that practise their solidarity with Cuba in the field of health”, and asserts that they are in “different regions”, mixing countries such as Germany, Switzerland, and Austria with autonomous regions such as the Canary Islands.
Furthermore, the press mentions a territory that does not exist as such – Euskal Herria (Basque people or the people who speak Basque), a political-cultural entity that belongs to the imagination of Basque expansionist movements – including the terrorist organisation ETA and its milieu – whose goal is to bring together in a single nation the inhabitants of the Basque Country, Navarra, and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques (France).
The MediCuba Europa website states that it is made up of some 18 organisations, eleven of them full members and seven as associates. In the first group are mediCuba-Switzerland, mediCuba-France, and mediCuba-Finland, together with the Spanish Sodepaz, the Italian Associazione Nazionale di Amicizia Italia-Cuba, the German Humanitäre Cuba Hilfe e.V., the Irish Cuba Support Group, the Swedish Svensk-Kubanska Föreningen, the Norwegian Cubaforeningen Norge, the Austrian Österreichisch-Kubanische Gesellschaft, and the Luxembourg Solidarité Luxembourg Cuba.
In the second group: Dansk-Cubansk Forening (Denmark), Cuba Solidarity Campaign UK (United Kingdom), CEESE-group Netherlands (the Netherlands), and the Spanish organisations Euskadi Cuba, Asociación Valenciana de Amistad con Cuba Jose Marti, Asociación Solidaridad y Cooperación Ernesto Guevara de Madrid, and the Asociación de Amistad Canario Cubana Antonio Pérez Monzón.
The ELAM project is broken down on the website into two stages: a large solar plant to be built with two companies – one German, one Swiss – of 60 kW, which has been producing since June 2015. The second stage, the current one, has been underway for a year and involves four companies from the same countries.
But the projects within the solar plan are far more numerous and have also made it possible to install capacity at the Finlay Vaccine Institute, the Faustino Pérez Provincial Hospital in Matanzas, the Cardiocentre and the William Soler polyclinic, the Borras Marfan paediatric hospital, and the outpatient maternity clinic in Matanzas. In addition, the website notes that more energy projects are forthcoming.
The organisation has also recently been involved in projects to secure locally produced sodium heparin for patients in Cuba, the purchase of paediatric antitumoural drugs, and pacemakers for the Cuban health system.
The organisation has also recently been involved in projects to secure locally produced sodium heparin for patients in Cuba, the purchase of paediatric antitumoural drugs, and pacemakers for the Cuban health system.
The activity of European associations close to the Cuban regime is currently buzzing. That same Cubadebate publishes this Thursday the mobilisation that took place at the Luxembourg Square, in front of the European Parliament, to support the start of activities of a solidarity convoy with Cuba that had arrived from Italy and will travel through several cities under the slogans “Let Cuba Breathe” and “Europe Wakes Up”.
In the rain and carrying placards, activists, Belgian and European parliamentarians, Cubans resident in the country, and others joined an event that the official press describes, cloyingly, as a demonstration of “the fact that distance does not cool legitimate commitments”. This was happening outside, while inside a European Parliament – which has already voted on numerous occasions for resolutions calling for the release of political prisoners or sanctions against the regime – an event was taking place organised by the left-wing parliamentary group, entitled Toward a New Internationalism in an Age of War, at which the role of the United States in conflicts such as those in Ukraine or Palestine, but also Sudan and Cuba, was discussed.
It is precisely these two countries that will be the destination of a €350,000 grant from the Basque Government, made up for the most part of right-wing Basque nationalists and socialists. The direct subsidy to the United Nations Development Programme in Cuba amounts to €250,000 and will support the project Havana’s Advance Towards Its Future: Comprehensive Implementation and Monitoring of the Havana Provincial Development Strategy. According to the report, this project aims to promote comprehensive development – energy, waste, and housing – on the Island, which faces “significant challenges”.
Translated by GH
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