Re: [Marxism] The Cuban Contrast

[Andrew Pollack via Marxism]

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I really hope comrades will circulate this article. It's a thorough,
detailed yet succinct explanation of the top-to-bottom methods used in
disaster preparedness and recovery:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/hurricane-harvey-cuba-disaster-plan

Typing "Cuba disaster prepardness" in google brings up many other useful
articles.

The media is now focused on the idiotic lying claim of FEMA's head that
"logistical difficulties" are hampering its efforts - which has resulted in
angry, mocking references to far greater logistical challenges on D-Day,
moon landings, etc.

http://time.com/4964574/hurricane-maria-fema-brock-long-puerto-rico-logistics/

We want to reach those friends who've unholstered their bullshit-detectors
to take the next step and look at how socialism deals with these tragedies.
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[Marxism] The Cuban Contrast

[Jon Flanders via Marxism]

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Let's recap what independent socialist Cuba dealt with after Irma. And 
contrast this with the Puerto Rican colony of the US as Trump's visit 
approaches. This report is from a few days ago. Do you think the kind of 
detail Cuba has managed to compile has happened in Puerto Rico? Never 
mind the spectacularly different outcomes? Which you will *NEVER *hear 
reported in the corporate media. In fact the Trump administration is 
seeking to make sure you won't hear from Cuba by stopping the issuance 
of visas to Cubans.


Jon Flanders

*"The National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) along the 
three chiefs of the strategic regions the country is divided into, 
reported the following figures to the Cuban National Defense president:*


*Close to 1.9 million Cubans were evacuated to safer places. Up to date 
11,689 people remain in shelters, receiving state support of food and 
other first need items in nine provinces.
Over 158 thousand houses were affected: 14,657 were totally destroyed 
and 16,646 suffered large damages. Also, over 23 thousand lost their 
roofs, and over 100 thousand suffered some damages on them.*


*The National Power Grid suffered major damages in most of the country. 
Some 4,000 poles were knocked down by the winds, close to 3 500 
kilometers of power lines went down. Out of the 8 largest power plants, 
half of them had to halt due to the severity of the damages. Two weeks 
later, 99.9 percent of the country had the power restored.*


*In telecommunications, a quarter of a million landlines were affected, 
as well as 1,471 internet lines. 27 phone towers fell along 4,764 poles. 
Today, 85.3 percent of these services are already restored."*



http://en.granma.cu/tourism/2017-09-27/cuba-will-be-ready-for-tourist-high-season-without-a-trace-of-hurricane-irma
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2017-09-28/the-guiteras-thermoelectric-plant-up-and-running
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2017-09-27/the-havana-malecon-preparing-to-reopen-photos


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