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by Eli Stephens left i one the news Entered into the database on Tuesday, June 06th, 2006 @ 12:41:31 MST |
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Since the Washington
Post thinks Hugo Chavez is an "imperialist," and since we all
know that Chavez aspires to be another Fidel Castro, Cuba must really be an
imperialist power. Here's a little of that "Cuban-Venezuelan imperialism"
at work: Cuba
restores sight to nearly a quarter million Latin Americans: The number of Latin Americans who have had their vision restored since the
start of the Cuban Operation Miracle program nearly two years ago is approaching
a quarter million. Through this joint program with Venezuela, low-income people
of the region are undergoing surgery free of charge along with all required
medicines before, during, and after the procedure. Cuban
medical contingent comes to aid of earthquake victims in Indonesia: Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque was at the Solo city airport on
the Indonesian island of Java to receive a contingent from Cuba’s Henry
Reeve Medical Brigade, which arrived to lend its services to thousands of
victims after a devastating earthquake a week earlier killed more than 6,000
people and left tens of thousands injured. The contingent’s 135 health professionals, including specialized doctors
and hospital staff, arrived on June 3 at 1:55 pm local time after flying the
22,000 kilometers that separate Havana and Java. Ninety-six members of the contingent had just returned home after completing
a successful mission in the Republic of Pakistan after the latter was shaken
by an earthquake on October 8 last year. |
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