Haiti still struggling
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Sunday, June 2, 2024 16:57
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As to Laura Silsby's intentions, I think you're right on target, Frem. Putting together all I've heard and read, I'm getting the feeling her money-making ventures crashed and getting "donations" sounded like a good idea; so gather up a bunch of orphans, even non-orphans, just kids, everyone loves kids. Then get 'em to a building, make it an orphanage, and watch the money roll in. Just a guess.
Yes, I anticipated all you wrote, it's pretty inevitable given our "foreign policy" and willingness to take advantage of crises. No surprise there, except that it's not getting coverage--which I guess is no surprise either...sigh...
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Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
Hell, look at New Orleans
maybe let Cuba take Haiti over, at least it would be better organized chaos...
What did New Oleans have.... 1,200 fatalities ? vs some 250,000 in Haiti ?
And why the 9th Ward might be on par w/ the areas around Port au Prince, the heart of the city of New Orleans actually faired quite well. The entire Gulf region is likely a more accurate comparison.
Cuba can barely feed its own population. They're in no position to take Haiti over, even under the best circumstances.
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Sorry Rappy, wrong again
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/01/201013195514870782.html
Cuba's aid ignored by the media?
By Tom Fawthrop in Havana
After the quake struck, Haiti's first medical aid came from Cuba [GALLO/GETTY]
Among the many donor nations helping Haiti, Cuba and its medical teams have played a major role in treating earthquake victims.
Public health experts say the Cubans were the first to set up medical facilities among the debris and to revamp hospitals immediately after the earthquake struck.
However, their pivotal work in the health sector has received scant media coverage.
special report
Special Report: Haiti earthquake
"It is striking that there has been virtually no mention in the media of the fact that Cuba had several hundred health personnel on the ground before any other country," said David Sanders, a professor of public health from Western Cape University in South Africa.
The Cuban team coordinator in Haiti, Dr Carlos Alberto Garcia, says the Cuban doctors, nurses and other health personnel have been working non-stop, day and night, with operating rooms open 18 hours a day.
During a visit to La Paz hospital in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Dr Mirta Roses, the director of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) which is in charge of medical coordination between the Cuban doctors, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a host of health sector NGOs, described the aid provided by Cuban doctors as "excellent and marvellous".
La Paz is one of five hospitals in Haiti that is largely staffed by health professionals from Havana.
History of cooperation
Global medical teams raced to provide urgent aid to Haiti after the earthquake [GETTY]
Haiti and Cuba signed a medical cooperation agreement in 1998.
Before the earthquake struck, 344 Cuban health professionals were already present in Haiti, providing primary care and obstetrical services as well as operating to restore the sight of Haitians blinded by eye diseases.
More doctors were flown in shortly after the earthquake, as part of the rapid response Henry Reeve Medical Brigade of disaster specialists. The brigade has extensive experience in dealing with the aftermath of earthquakes, having responded to such disasters in China, Indonesia and Pakistan.
"In the case of Cuban doctors, they are rapid responders to disasters, because disaster management is an integral part of their training," explains Maria a Hamlin Zúniga, a public health specialist from Nicaragua.
"They are fully aware of the need to reduce risks by having people prepared to act in any disaster situation."
Cuban doctors have been organising medical facilities in three revamped and five field hospitals, five diagnostic centres, with a total of 22 different care posts aided by financial support from Venezuela. They are also operating nine rehabilitation centres staffed by nearly 70 Cuban physical therapists and rehab specialists, in addition to the Haitian medical personnel.
The Cuban team has been assisted by 100 specialists from Venezuela, Chile, Spain, Mexico, Colombia and Canada and 17 nuns.
Havana has also sent 400,000 tetanus vaccines for the wounded.
Eduardo Nuñez Valdes, a Cuban epidemiologist who is currently in Port-au-Prince, has stressed that the current un
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How was I in any way " wrong " ?
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
How was I in any way " wrong " ?
Director: Bureau of Bigfoot Affairs
I said after the mess the US made with the New Orleans relief efforts maybe Cuba should take over the Haiti relief effort
you said " Cuba can barely feed its own population. They're in no position to take Haiti over, even under the best circumstances "
I posted that they actually are running most of the medical effort as it is, ignored largely by the US media... ( with cite attached )
therefore your statement is wrong
in addition, I wonder if Cuba wouldn't be in better shape if the US wasn't so hostile and angry over their picked thug being ran out years ago... get over it already
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17 Colombian Ex-soldiers Suspected In Haiti President Jovenel Moise's Assassination
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/17-col
ombian-ex-soldiers-suspected-in-haiti-president-jovenel-moises-assassination.html
Haiti president Jovenel Moise was assassinated by hit squad from Colombia and the US, police say
Jovenel Moise was reportedly assassinated by a heavily armed hit squad of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans
Police in Haiti said the assassination was carried out by a commando unit of 26 Colombian and 2 Haitian-American mercenaries.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8017337/us-colombia-agents-investigate-hait
i-president/
US, Colombia sending agents to Haiti to help probe President’s killing
https://guyanachronicle.com/2021/07/10/us-colombia-sending-agents-to-h
aiti-to-help-probe-presidents-killing/
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Biden and the voodoo criminal Haitians
Joe Biden makes blunder as he says US will help Kenya tackle Haiti crisis
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/joe-biden-makes-blunder-says-328
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