He such a nice guy he wants to send 1100 fully specially trained Soldiers to
this country
From: bob allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Biofuel] Cuba Willing to Send Immediate Medical Help
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:12:24 -0500
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BC8EF57BD-B774-4C33-B410-BB62351EDDE9%7D%29&language=EN
Cuba Willing to Send Immediate Medical Help to US, Says Fidel Castro
Havana, Sep 3 (Prensa Latina) President Fidel Castro Friday offered the
United States eleven hundred
doctors with extensive international experience, plus medicines and
diagnostic teams, to help the
victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The head of state participated this afternoon in the Cuban television
program The Informative Round
Table, dedicated to the tragic situation in various states of the northern
nation that were in the
path of the devastating storm.
Fidel Castro said that at 11.32 am local time on August 30 he instructed
the Cuban Foreign Minister
Felipe Pérez Roque to convey to the American government Cuba´s condolences
for the loss of human
life caused by the cyclone.
At that time, he noted, the magnitude of the human and material catastrophe
in Louisiana, Mississipi
and Alabama was not known.
The message, conveyed to the American authorities not only by the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs in
Havana but also by the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, indicated
Cuba´s willingness to send
doctors and necessary medical teams to those states, as well as three field
hospitals and the
personnel required to staff them.
He indicated that in spite of their bilateral political and ideological
differences, the island has
always maintained a principled position in eventualities such as this, and
he recalled the attitude
assumed by Havana following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
On that occasion the Cuban government was possibly the first to offer
assistance to the United
States, when it put the island´s airports at the disposal of airliners
flying towards that nation,
he said.
Fidel Castro said that the offer of August 30 did not seek publicity, and
this was stressed in the
message sent to the American authorities.
He referred to statements of the spokesman of the US State Department
Thursday evening about the
offers of aid received by Washington from various parts of the world, which
failed to mention that
of the biggest of the Antilles.
President Castro informed that early tomorrow morning Cuba could send to
the areas of greatest need
the first 100 general medicine specialists, complete with backpacks
containing 24 kilograms of
essential medicines and diagnostic instruments for emergency situations.
Equally, within the next two days Cuba could send another thousand
specialists in general medicine,
plus equipment.
Fidel Castro emphasized that these are all professionals with extensive
medical experience tested in
the most difficult sanitary conditions of the Third World, who also have
English language proficiency.
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--
Bob Allen
http://ozarker.org/bob
"Science is what we have learned about how to keep
from fooling ourselves" - Richard Feynman
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