When did he offer soldiers? this article is about 1100 doctors. Oh, you're joking? I take it then that you think Castro is insincere?
Juan Gutierrez wrote: > He such a nice guy he wants to send 1100 fully specially trained > Soldiers to this country > > >> From: bob allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >> To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >> 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. >> >> fg/ool/jwp >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Bob Allen >> http://ozarker.org/bob >> >> "Science is what we have learned about how to keep >> from fooling ourselves" - Richard Feynman >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Biofuel mailing list >> Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >> http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org >> >> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >> Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >> messages): >> http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don’t just search. 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