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.