Santiago de Cuba.– A cargo with solidary aid for the people affected by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike arrived at the port of Santiago de Cuba Friday, together with an official delegation sent by Dominican President Leonel Fernandez.
The load, with 676 tons of food, construction materials, beans, rice, zinc sheets, chlorine and other things valued at over $492,000 arrived in this city from the Dominican Republic, on board of the Panamanian Franchesca I ship.
Doctor Euclides Gutierrez, Dominican Secretary of State and General Director of the Insurance Administrative Division, who headed the group of Dominican officials, said that the solidary aid is a sample of the support and affection towards the Cuban people, due to the hard situation after the passage of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
Gutierrez highlighted the effectiveness of the Cuban system, particularly Civil Defense, to face the challenges of nature, and said that the Dominican Republic would exchange criteria to get some experience and adapt it to the Dominican needs.
Written by: Belial, 20 Sep 2008 12:57 AM
From: United States, Texas
The donation shows the upright nature of the DR.
Of course, the donation will enrage reactionaries who are servile to US imperialism.
Reactionaries servile to US imperialism resent people who are upright.
Reactionaries servile to US imperialism are not upright, but very crooked.
Often they're deformed morally.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
Cuba Monday turned down 5 million dollars US aid...On Monday, the US government said it had raised its initial offer of $100,000 aid for Cuban hurricane victims to up to $5m, but Cuba had rejected it.
Cuban state television, quoting a diplomatic cable, said that the government had responded that Cuba "could not accept a gift" while under a US embargo. ......................This sounds like cutting off your nose to spite your face.....let us hope this will be the end of the Castro Bros.....this is the worst storm in Cuban history
"During the natural disasters occcuring since 1959, all aid sent to the Cuban people has been intercepted by the Communist tyranny, placed in control of the those who exploit the country, directed to supply the requirements of the tourist industry, or sold at high prices at the so-called 'diplotiendas' [luxury stores in Cuba that use US dollars], which the Cuban worker has no access to.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
this is an outrage ....I am shocked shocked
Written by: Belial, 20 Sep 2008 10:51 AM
From: United States, Texas
The Cuban proletariat has great and stunning experience in food self-sufficiency and it is determined to exercise this virtue in this extreme emergency.
oooo
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={E23705CB-A355-4580-9FF0-616ECB4D75B5})&language=EN
Havana, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is increasing urban gardens ... employed 400,000 workers before the hurricanes ... to boost food production after the hurricanes.
City gardens gain importance in a country where cultivation suffered a hard blow by nature in only two weeks, and where 75 percent of the population lives in the cities.
The initiative implemented two decades ago to complement food production is a guideline for several measures under study aimed at reviving traditional agriculture, but admittedly national seed production and sources of organic fertilizers are still seriously insufficient.
The urban gardens are extending over the whole country, which lost over 5,000 tons of food during the hurricanes.
Written by: Belial, 20 Sep 2008 11:05 AM
From: United States, Texas
The Cuban proletariat asked the US regime to SELL the revolutionary workers the food they want without discrimination in price or other terms of the deal.
The lying US regime replied that "US law" requires the US regime to discriminate against Cuban workers in the SELL of food.
The so-called "US law" is only US Treasury Department regulation adopted in summer of 2004 by the Bush regime, denying customary credit to Cuban buyers of US ag exports. These regulations can, like all US regulations, be repeal or amended at the whim of the White House occupant.
However, US legislation passed by US Congress and signed by the president and the law set forth in US court decisions are unlike regulations and cannot be repeal or amended so easily.
Written by: Belial, 20 Sep 2008 11:15 AM
From: United States, Texas
Cuban proletariat turns the lights on and ends the blackout
Over 88 percent of the population has electrical service, and generators work in those places where energy from the national electric power system cannot be tapped.
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={02913249-490A-4FB2-8817-25FB8BCF4356}&language=EN
UEC manager Ricardo Gonzalez told Prensa Latina that the strategic energy revolution has contributed to the accelerated re-establishment of the electrical service.
"Generators," he said, "have played an important role in guaranteeing vitality in hospitals, polyclinics, bakeries, pumping stations and centers for the production of foods, among other social-economic targets."
The main targets is to revitalize isolated generation microsystems, Gonzalez noted.
Transmission lines in the country"s eastern zone toppled with the passing of Hurricane Ike, but they were working again quickly with a system made up of 100 synchronized generators.
Written by: Belial, 20 Sep 2008 11:30 AM
From: United States, Texas
Before the hurricanes, the Cuban proletariat spent several hundred million dollars on over 100 tractor trailer-mounted mobile electrical generators to supplement the grid and to supply an alternative source of power if the grid fails.
Some of the shipping containers ... in which the diesel-operated generators are often encased ... produce an output up to a whopping 20 MW, some 10, others 5, and still others 1MW. Then there even smaller generators of less than 1000 KW for specific functions. All are highly mobile and can be moved during a storm either to safe places or away from the storm.
The bourgeoisie in LA/C ... taking "advice" from the incompetent Bear Stearn, Lehman Bros., Merrill Lynch, IMF, World Bank, IADB and Paris Club ... want LA/C countries to obligate themselves for billions of dollars in debt to put up useless and unnecessary power plants.
The debt will "generate" juicy interest payments for the bourgeois parasites in NYC and London for decades to come.
From: United States
Hasta cuando? Seguiran Dominicanos apoyando a Cuba y su tirano-regimen totalitario? Dictadura sin paralelos en la historia de America Hispana.
More food, and supplies to perpetuate the "viven-bien's" who suck the life blood of the captive island dwellers. Now, they are going to learn lessons from a (Cuba) country who has experienced 50 years of regression? What criteria, what idiosyncrasies, what ignorance?
No wonder lie-onel is calling for a change to the Costitution? They want DR to follow the lead of the modern-socialist examples of prosperity and progress: Cuba y Venezuela!
Que acidos son? Que ignorantes, por eso vivo aqui, y no entre los sabios del Caribe!
Sigan creyendo en Castro y el Che. ................ Che, que asco me dan.
Written by: Belial, 21 Sep 2008 11:19 AM
From: United States, Texas
With electricity restored to 88% of the people of Cuba less than a week after the second hurricance , IKE, savagely attacked the island, the revolutionary workers of Cuba have shown Latin America and Caribbean ... and to some degree, the southern and southwesten parts of the USA ... that recovery from a hurricne knock-out of power doesn't have to be prolong.
This is at least the second big emergency capability won by the socialist workers of Cuba -- the first may be their skill in evacuating people to safety in stormy moments.
Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chavez has come up with idea to restore the food supply as soon as possible after a devastating storm. Chavez suggests Cuban workers with ag backgrounds farm in Venezuela and other friendly countries to produce on a largescale, permanent basis a part of the food Cuba needs and pay for the use of the foreign land with a share of the crop the Cuban workers produce abroad.
Chavez is a genius.
Raul will likely jump at Chavez' idea.
Written by: Belial, 21 Sep 2008 1:03 PM
From: United States, Texas
"White House asks Congress for $700 billion mortgage bailout" today headlines screams.
0000
So, there's is no free lunch bourgeois ideology argues.
Well, what is $7000 billion?
A snack!
Bourgeois parasites who live off the US taxpayers can make the US people kiss their parasitic rears any time the parasites want.
"Oh, $700 billion, no problem. Here it is, don't worry about paying it back. If you need more, don't hesitate to ask, you know what suckers the US people are."
From: Dominican Republic
Finally, after several weeks, we took the time to take our nose out of Haiti's rear end and looked up and noticed that other neighbors, that speak the same language, religion, culture, and motherland, were having trouble too! We are so proHaiti that we forget that we have connections with others such a Cuba and PR! FINALLY!!!
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
Belial remember what I told you ...".The Bourgies will grind you and your kind under the wheels of our golden gilded carriages as we pass by with the blinds drawn "...
From: Malta, Malta Goya, La marca del momento esta pa ti
Dominicans and Cubans have a long history of helping each other, we helped Cuba a lot.
One of there founding fathers is Dominican Gen. Máximo Gómez y Báez. Cuba Owes a lot to DR and they intern helped people like Manolo Tavarez Justo and 14 De Junio.
Col. Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó. (44th) Constitutionalist President of the Dominican Republic.
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
what Raul needs is a good old fashion @ss kickin.....free of charge Chill
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
" In one of his columns, Fidel Castro explained that "the dignity of a people has no price" and chastised "those in our country who are upset" with the decision not to accept U.S. help. Is the dignity so flaunted by Cuban leaders more important than helping ordinary Cubans when they most need it? The answer is a disgraceful "Yes."
What else can we conclude given Havana's "No" to donations from the European Union? Welcoming aid from countries that have yet to sign cooperation agreements is also an affront to dignity. In the European Union, only Spain and Belgium qualify to help the Cuban people. All the same, Cuba recently accepted an ongoing dialogue with the EU "
From: Spain, Sanlucar de Barrameda..Coto Doñana
In one of his columns, Fidel Castro explained that "the dignity of a people has no price"
"Cuban leaders are playing politics. With the EU, they hope to get cooperation agreements on their terms while sustaining a dialogue that isn't overly emphatic on human rights. With or without strings, U.S. aid is noxious for official Cuba, which needs the United States as an enemy to bolster its David-Goliath image before the world and as a scapegoat for its economic failures at home. "
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Of course, the donation will enrage reactionaries who are servile to US imperialism.
Reactionaries servile to US imperialism resent people who are upright.
Reactionaries servile to US imperialism are not upright, but very crooked.
Often they're deformed morally.
Cuban state television, quoting a diplomatic cable, said that the government had responded that Cuba "could not accept a gift" while under a US embargo. ......................This sounds like cutting off your nose to spite your face.....let us hope this will be the end of the Castro Bros.....this is the worst storm in Cuban history
"During the natural disasters occcuring since 1959, all aid sent to the Cuban people has been intercepted by the Communist tyranny, placed in control of the those who exploit the country, directed to supply the requirements of the tourist industry, or sold at high prices at the so-called 'diplotiendas' [luxury stores in Cuba that use US dollars], which the Cuban worker has no access to.
oooo
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={E23705CB-A355-4580-9FF0-616ECB4D75B5})&language=EN
Havana, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is increasing urban gardens ... employed 400,000 workers before the hurricanes ... to boost food production after the hurricanes.
City gardens gain importance in a country where cultivation suffered a hard blow by nature in only two weeks, and where 75 percent of the population lives in the cities.
The initiative implemented two decades ago to complement food production is a guideline for several measures under study aimed at reviving traditional agriculture, but admittedly national seed production and sources of organic fertilizers are still seriously insufficient.
The urban gardens are extending over the whole country, which lost over 5,000 tons of food during the hurricanes.
The lying US regime replied that "US law" requires the US regime to discriminate against Cuban workers in the SELL of food.
The so-called "US law" is only US Treasury Department regulation adopted in summer of 2004 by the Bush regime, denying customary credit to Cuban buyers of US ag exports. These regulations can, like all US regulations, be repeal or amended at the whim of the White House occupant.
However, US legislation passed by US Congress and signed by the president and the law set forth in US court decisions are unlike regulations and cannot be repeal or amended so easily.
Over 88 percent of the population has electrical service, and generators work in those places where energy from the national electric power system cannot be tapped.
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={02913249-490A-4FB2-8817-25FB8BCF4356}&language=EN
UEC manager Ricardo Gonzalez told Prensa Latina that the strategic energy revolution has contributed to the accelerated re-establishment of the electrical service.
"Generators," he said, "have played an important role in guaranteeing vitality in hospitals, polyclinics, bakeries, pumping stations and centers for the production of foods, among other social-economic targets."
The main targets is to revitalize isolated generation microsystems, Gonzalez noted.
Transmission lines in the country"s eastern zone toppled with the passing of Hurricane Ike, but they were working again quickly with a system made up of 100 synchronized generators.
Some of the shipping containers ... in which the diesel-operated generators are often encased ... produce an output up to a whopping 20 MW, some 10, others 5, and still others 1MW. Then there even smaller generators of less than 1000 KW for specific functions. All are highly mobile and can be moved during a storm either to safe places or away from the storm.
The bourgeoisie in LA/C ... taking "advice" from the incompetent Bear Stearn, Lehman Bros., Merrill Lynch, IMF, World Bank, IADB and Paris Club ... want LA/C countries to obligate themselves for billions of dollars in debt to put up useless and unnecessary power plants.
The debt will "generate" juicy interest payments for the bourgeois parasites in NYC and London for decades to come.
More food, and supplies to perpetuate the "viven-bien's" who suck the life blood of the captive island dwellers. Now, they are going to learn lessons from a (Cuba) country who has experienced 50 years of regression? What criteria, what idiosyncrasies, what ignorance?
No wonder lie-onel is calling for a change to the Costitution? They want DR to follow the lead of the modern-socialist examples of prosperity and progress: Cuba y Venezuela!
Que acidos son? Que ignorantes, por eso vivo aqui, y no entre los sabios del Caribe!
Sigan creyendo en Castro y el Che. ................ Che, que asco me dan.
This is at least the second big emergency capability won by the socialist workers of Cuba -- the first may be their skill in evacuating people to safety in stormy moments.
Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chavez has come up with idea to restore the food supply as soon as possible after a devastating storm. Chavez suggests Cuban workers with ag backgrounds farm in Venezuela and other friendly countries to produce on a largescale, permanent basis a part of the food Cuba needs and pay for the use of the foreign land with a share of the crop the Cuban workers produce abroad.
Chavez is a genius.
Raul will likely jump at Chavez' idea.
0000
So, there's is no free lunch bourgeois ideology argues.
Well, what is $7000 billion?
A snack!
Bourgeois parasites who live off the US taxpayers can make the US people kiss their parasitic rears any time the parasites want.
"Oh, $700 billion, no problem. Here it is, don't worry about paying it back. If you need more, don't hesitate to ask, you know what suckers the US people are."
One of there founding fathers is Dominican Gen. Máximo Gómez y Báez. Cuba Owes a lot to DR and they intern helped people like Manolo Tavarez Justo and 14 De Junio.
Col. Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó. (44th) Constitutionalist President of the Dominican Republic.
What else can we conclude given Havana's "No" to donations from the European Union? Welcoming aid from countries that have yet to sign cooperation agreements is also an affront to dignity. In the European Union, only Spain and Belgium qualify to help the Cuban people. All the same, Cuba recently accepted an ongoing dialogue with the EU "
"Cuban leaders are playing politics. With the EU, they hope to get cooperation agreements on their terms while sustaining a dialogue that isn't overly emphatic on human rights. With or without strings, U.S. aid is noxious for official Cuba, which needs the United States as an enemy to bolster its David-Goliath image before the world and as a scapegoat for its economic failures at home. "