“But while the United States is assessing the situation, there have all been reports that a China airplane, from halfway around the world in China, landed yesterday with supplies and equipment to help the people of Haiti. The Cuban foreign minister announced that Cuba has 400 people already in Haiti that have been working on a—medical people working on a mission. They’ve already set up two field hospitals and, just yesterday alone, treated 800 people. And Venezuela, President Chavez, sent a plane that landed last night with firefighters and medical personnel and other equipment. So these other countries are moving faster than we are here in the United States, even though we have these enormous resources. ”
I am incensed that our corporate media talking heads are so ego driven that even a nod of the head toward the contributions of the above mentioned countries is not given. Even Cooper Anderson during his last night’s programs continuously commented on the USÅ’s concentration on security/organization vs saving lives. His mantra was that lives were being lost, people would die, etc. etc. Over and over he narrowed his comment to this reality. Eneida Pugh

If anything, Cuba has been the target of American sponsored terror over the years, not the other way around.

Dave Lindorff

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

That is so true and equally unfortunate. The help is getting to Haiti, which is the important part. But, if the report doesn’t reach a widespread audience, then people will continue to think wrongly of Cuba.