OREANDA-NEWS The Chilean authorities are considering sending humanitarian aid to Cuba, which is experiencing a severe crisis due to the US decision to impose sanctions on countries supplying the island with oil.

"The Chilean administration, based on humanitarian considerations, is always ready to come to the aid of peoples at war, or in this case, in a state of economic blockade, which affects not the political system, but ultimately ordinary people," the EFE news agency quoted Camila Vallejo, a representative of the Chilean presidential administration, as saying on Wednesday..

According to her, "the Chilean authorities are assessing the available resources that could be used to help."

Vallejo made these statements a few hours after a number of representatives of the ruling coalition of the Communist Party of Chile called on the country's leadership to provide assistance to Cuba.

Earlier this week, the Mexican authorities announced the expansion of humanitarian supplies to Cuba.