Cuba & Venezuela commit to restore sight to 600K LatAms p.a.

[Mairead]

Cuba and Venezuela have sealed a commitment over the next 10 years to restore the sight of millions of Latin Americans who lack the economic resources for an operation, as part of the extension of the Mission Miracle program throughout the region.

This was announced by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez during edition No. 231 of the popular television space "Aló Presidente," transmitted from the Sandino municipality in the extreme west of the island’s Pinar del Río province, where 150 homes have been rebuilt by a brigade from the homeland of Bolívar for families affected by recent hurricanes.

Christened the Sandino Commitment, the program proposes to attend to 600,000 patients per year in the Cuban facilities involved in the mission and in Venezuelan health centers to be brought into the humanitarian project, including military hospitals.

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/agosto/lun22/35cfap-i.html

[DrJackson]

1. What a couple of evil bastards

Pat Robertson was right -- we need to take him out before he does anything else to benefit the people of his country

[ladjf]

2. Yes. And it hasn't been mentioned that Chavez has programs

in Venezuela to provide houses , education and other medical help for the poor. Gasoline cost 12 cents per gallon. Understandably, he is wildly popular and was legitimately elected President, which is a lot more than we could say for *. He is no threat to Democracy. Bush is.