>... provide the critical logistics and communications support... Actually, other countries are protesting the "logistics support" the US military is providing by monopolizing the airport:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/17/us-accused-aid-effort-haiti Harland Harrison LP of San Mateo County CA ________________________________ De : Bob Giramma <[email protected]> À : [email protected]; [email protected] Envoyé le : Dim 17 Janvier 2010, 16 h 08 min 58 s Objet : Re: [CALibs] Fwd: Cuba is Missing - Or Is It? I suspect Americans are doing far better than Cubans on the non-government part of assistance to Haitians. There will likely be hundreds of millions of dollars raised voluntarily by the American people to be used by non-governmental organizations. Further, I'm almost certain that the government of Cuba, having impoverished its economy through dictatorial socialism, will be unable to provide the critical logistics and communications support the relief organizations and Haitian people need. From: Harland Harrison Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 10:28 AM To: [email protected] Cc: groupcalibs ; LPSF Discussion List ; [email protected] Subject: [CALibs] Fwd: Cuba is Missing - Or Is It? --- On Fri, 1/15/10, Scott Bidstrup <sc...@bidstrup. com> wrote: >From: > Scott Bidstrup <sc...@bidstrup. com> >Subject: > Cuba is Missing - Or Is It? >Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 11:01 > PM > > >All, > >Cuba is missing, alright, primarily > from the list of nations to which the Fawning Corporate Media in the > United States is willing to pay respect. > >What it is not missing > from, is the list of first responder nations to the Haiti > emergency. Contrary to what Fox News has reported, it has not only > responded by sending medical help, but it was one of the first to do > so. Cuba, hit frequently by hurricanes as it is, knows how to deal > with emergencies, and is doing so very effectively. It was one of > the first to land medical help into the affected area, having sent 30 > in > addition to the 400 it already had there. > >And its people have > responded - I know, because I can listen (7045 Khz.) to the efforts of > the ham radio operators in Cuba, providing emergency communications > into > the affected area - and doing so with more efficiency and > effectiveness > than anyone else, including such experienced U.S. groups as the > Salvation Army. > >Scott > >==== > >Cuba is Missing...From > US Reports on the International Response to Haiti’s Earthquake >Dave > Lindorff > >http://www.smirking chimp.com/ thread/26095 > >There > are only two US media outlets that have reported on Cuba’s response to > the deadly 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti. One was Fox News, which > claimed, wrongly, that the Cubans were absent from the list of > neighboring Caribbean countries providing aid. The other was the > Christian Science Monitor (a respected news organization that recently > shut down its print edition), which reported correctly that Cuba had > dispatched 30 doctors to the stricken nation. > >The Christian > Science Monitor, in a second article, quoted Laurence Korb, former > assistant secretary of defense and now based at the Center for > American > Progress, as saying that the US, which is leading the relief efforts > in > Haiti, should “consider tapping the expertise of neighboring Cuba,” > which he noted, “has some of the best doctors in the world--we should > see about flying them in.” > >As for the rest of the US media, they > have simply ignored Cuba. > >In fact, left unmentioned is the > reality that Cuba already had over 400 doctors posted to Haiti to help > with the day-to-day health needs of this poorest nation in the > Americas, > and that those doctors were the first to respond to the disaster, > setting up a hospital right next to the main hospital in > Port-au-Prince > which collapsed in the earthquake. > >Far from “doing nothing” about > the disaster as the right-wing propagandists at Fox-TV were claiming, > Cuba has been one of the most effective and critical responders to the > crisis, because it had set up a medical infrastructure before the > quake, > which was able to mobilize quickly and start treating the > victims. > >The American emergency response, predictably, has > focussed primarily, at least in terms of personnel and money, on > sending > the hugely costly and inefficient US military--a fleet of aircraft and > an aircraft carrier--a factor that should be considered when examining > that $100 million figure the Obama administration claims is being > allocated to emergency aid to Haiti. Considering that the cost of > operating an aircraft carrier, including crew, is roughly $2 million a > day, just sending a carrier to Port-au-Prince for two weeks accounts > for > a quarter of the announced American aid effort, and while many of the > military personnel sent there will certainly be doing actual aid work, > delivering supplies and guarding supplies, many, given America’s long > history of brutal military/colonial control of Haiti, will inevitably > be > spending their time ensuring continued survival and control of the > parasitic pro-US political elite in Haiti. > >Otherwise, the US has > basically ignored the ongoing day-to-day human crisis in Haiti, while > Cuba has been doing the yeoman work of providing basic health > care. > >But that’s not a story that the American corporate media > want to tell. > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
