Articles on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath

Cuba's offered of help after Hurricane Katrina:
http://www.walterlippmann.com/hurricane.html

John Maxwell: No Way Out?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20050924T220000-0500_89041_OBS_NO_WAY_OUT__.asp

Peter Bourne, MD: Cuba Can Teach the US about Hurricane Relief (9-26-5-2005
<http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1127640327114720.xml&coll=2>

United Nations report on Hurricane Rita in Cuba (9-22-2005)
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6GGNK5?OpenDocument 

Bill Press: Charles Darwin Was Wrong
http://www.progresoweekly.com/index.php?progreso=Bill_Press&otherweek=1127365200 

Katrina shines spotlight on realities for Black people in the United States
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/septiembre/mart6/37victims-i.html

Investor's Business Daily argues against Cuban offer of medical help:
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&artnum=1&issue=20050908&view=1

From the website of Florida Senator Mel Martinez
Listen to Spanish commentary on September 9, 2005
Comment by Cuban-American scholar Marifeli Perez-Stable

Katrina shines spotlight on realities or Black people in the U.S.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/septiembre/mart6/37victims-i.html

Katrina: hurricane winds still blowing
• According to Bush, there’s plenty of time for blame
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/septiembre/mier14/38katrina.html

Cuban doctors say politics block Katrina aid offer

Call for independent inquiry into belated reaction by authorities (Granma) (9-8-2005)

Doctors Urge U.S. To Accept Cuba's Offer to send
disaster-trained doctors to stop Katrina Epidemics

South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Cuba's storm preparedness
seen as essential to national security, economy

St. Petersburg Times: Can we learn from Cuba's lesson? 

U.S. mum on Cuba offer for Katrina relief (AP)

Katrina aide from Cuba? No thanks, says U.S. (MSNBC)

Katrina - A preventable social disaster

Cuba and the United States: Two Countries, Two Responses

What do Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and the War On Iraq
by Elsy Fors (Prensa Latina, September 2005)

Those who couldn't or didn't want to leave were overwhelmingly black (Granma)

National Weather Service Warning before Katrina Struck: "Devastating damage expected"

Summary of reiterated offer

Fidel reiterates the offer two days latter after nearly 1600 volunteered to go (transcript)

Oxfam report on Cuba's disaster preparedness program (68 page PDF)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C1D9249BB  

Katrina reveals some hard, unpleasant Truths (Michael Mayo, Sun-Sentinel, 9-2-2005)

cuba-hurricane-leaflet.doc
Handy two-page leaflet in word format containing the
articles from the Sun-Sentinel and St. Petersburg Times
describing the Cuban approach in light of Hurricane Katrina.