Cuba, Norway sign agreement to aid Haiti

[flamingdem]

** More evil deeds by our dangerous enemy Cuba!!!!

Cuba, Norway sign agreement to aid Haiti

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/7182237.html

Cuba and Norway signed a second agreement Friday to help the Haitian government fight the cholera epidemic in the aftermath of a major earthquake in January, official Cuban sources said.

Norway donated 850,000 U.S. dollars for the purchase and shipment of medical supplies and other material resources for Haiti, according to the Cuban Ministry of Public Health.

This is the second agreement of its kind and pledges the same amount of money as the previous one. The first one was signed in January after the quake.

Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Ramon Ripoll, and Norwegian Ambassador to Havana Jan Tore Holvik signed the document.

Cuba has given medical assistance to Haiti for over a decade, but increased its aid after the quake.
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[social_critic]

1. Haiti is a basket case

A failed society, their environment degraded, overpopulated, hopeless as it is today. What´s really needed is for all countries to take Haitian refugees so they can be pulled out of there, the country planted with trees, infrastructure rebuilt, and then the population moved back slowly as they develop light industry and the ability to feed themselves. This will take 20 years and a lot of money and education, but if it isn´t done it will continue to be a sore, and nothing will change.

[flamingdem]

3. They could use more committed and competent international help

... like that which the Cubans have been offering them for many years, even though their example is never lauded in the USA

[Billy Burnett]

5. Get the RW death squads and the corporofascists out of Haiti ...

... allow Fanmi Lavalas to run for elections, and Haiti will do much better. Period.

Shipping Haitians out of Haiti is as absurd as shipping New Orleans residents all over America after a flood. :eyes:

[rabs]

2. Tomas could be hitting Haiti by upcoming weekend

and if it does, more misery piled on misery.

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Tomas slipped under the threshold for a hurricane Sunday evening and the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami predicted more weakening before it begins to strengthen again around midweek.

At that point, Tomas is expected to veer northward in the general direction of Haiti, where some 1.3 million people are living under tarps and in tents that are vulnerable to heavy rains and wind.

Daniel Brown, a center forecaster, said Tomas is "likely to strengthen when it's over the central Caribbean," and Haiti could be hit by rains from outer bands in another couple of days.

Brown said it was too early to say how strong Tomas could become later in the week or if Haiti might suffer a direct hit. But, he added, "there's certainly going to be the threat of heavy rainfall" in the impoverished nation, where widespread deforestation and ramshackle homes mean even moderate rains can cause devastation.

Aid workers in Haiti fear the worst. Hundreds of thousands of people there have only rudimentary shelter nearly 10 months after the Jan. 12 earthquake, and a cholera epidemic has killed more than 330 and hospitalized nearly 5,000.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101101/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather

[Judi Lynn]

4. Inconceivable so much catastrophe could happen in one spot

and cholera, too.

Thank you for the update.

Some DU'ers do have contacts there, and news from Haiti has been unbearable for them since _Bush's treachery against the people during his hideous squatting in the White House.

[dipsydoodle]

6. Projected path here

http://www.topix.com/hurricane/hurricane-tomas

Fingers crossed they'll be ok.