[Marxism] 09/02/05 - Cuba-L - Fidel Castro Offers 1, 100 Cuban Phyisicians to the United States

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09/02/05 - Cuba-L - Fidel Castro Offers 1,100 Cuban Phyisicians to the United 
States

In a presentation in the program Mesa Redonda President Fidel Castro has 
revealed that Cuba offered to the United States' Department of State on August 
30, no less than 1,100 doctors to assist with the health crisis in the Gulf 
coast. Fidel Castro disclosed that Cuba will cover  the costs of the physicians 
airfare to Houston. The doctors will carry their own medicine, food and some 
water. No answer has been given to Cuba by the United States government. 
Consolezza Rice, hoiwever, has stated that all assistance that was offered by 
foreign countries would be accepted. However, the State Department ahs not 
acknowledged that the Cuban government offered such assistance just one hour 
after hurricane Katrina entered the city of New Orleans. Fidel Castro saus that 
"Cuba does not want to attack an adversary and certainly not at this time at 
this time. " He stressed that the President of the United States confronts many 
difficulties and Cuba in a constructive spirit wants to cooperate. 

Fidel Castro provided his Cuban listeners with a detailed report of the events 
from August 29th to the present. The Cuban president went on to add that this 
was not the first time that Cuba makes such an offer. "We are not asking for 
anything iun return from the United States." Maybe water, he said, is the only 
thing that the phyicians will need.
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