Cuba faces food shortage after hurricanes

[Nambe]

Source:

...The twin storms caused the worst damage in the island's history.

"There have been very serious effects, but I can say no Cuban is going to die of hunger or be abandoned to their fate," Alcides Lopez, the vice-minister of agriculture, said.

"We face six hard months ... but we can't lament, we have to plant," he added, outlining more than 80 measures designed to speed up production and the distribution of food. ...

... The Cuban government has also hit out at the US over the shortages, saying its trade sanctions were the biggest obstacle to Cuba's recovery. ...

...Every year for the past 16 years, the UN general assembly has approved Cuba's resolution calling for the embargo to be lifted. The next vote is next month.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/19/cuba.usforeignpolicy

[Robbien]

1. Disaster recovery in Cuba is fantastic compared to FEMA

Even with all the hardships put on Cuba by the embargo, the Cuban government is out there doing its best to help the people.

[demnan]

2. Remember Haiti

they had food riots this Spring in Haiti before the four hurricanes that hit that island.

[Mika]

3. Maybe now the US can break the will of the Cuban people, and they'll elect a US corporate gov.

Maybe now Cubans will drown their government in a bathtub.

Its common knowledge that Cubans have their world class social universal health care and world leading universal education and the rest of their social infrastructure-for-all forced upon them by the evil Dr Castro on his evil island.

Everybody knows that no normal people want these things.

The free market will solve all of Cuba's socialism.

:sarcasm:



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[Auggie]

4. It would seem an opportune time to help out our Caribbean neighbors,

but this government still has its head up its ass in Texas, Louisiana and Wall Street.

[KamaAina]

5. I'll bet the Cubans even have ice

which is more than southeast Texas can say right now.

Heckuvajob, FEMA! :grr:

[Mika]

6. Hardly.

There's no power on much of the island. Its bad. I've been able to contact only a few friends by phone, and they're in Havana and Santiago.


Cuba hurricane relief links.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x7636



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[Pterodactyl]

7. Raul is screwing up.

This stuff never used to happen during the Fidel Castro administration.