CUBA, Jan 21, 2010. - While the planet has been shaken by Haiti since the January 12 earthquake followed by powerful aftershocks, the international community firmly rejects the American military presence in the Caribbean nation and claims for help to the Haitian people. The Cuban daily TV and radio information program The Round Table featured on Wednesday the presence in Haiti of some 6,000 American soldiers, a number that is expected to grow to 10,000 within the next few days, causing a high rejection by several nations and international organizations. The French government reportedly told the UN that this is the time to help not to invade the country in reference to the US stance towards the Haitian situation. Even the European Union, as a regional block, has encouraged UN to define a strategy for the distribution of the humanitarian aid reaching Haiti given the obstacles set by the US military to the landing of aircrafts with aid in the Port-au-Prince airport. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is in solidarity with the Caribbean nation, where the number of people found dead and buried amounts to 80,000, while the death toll is estimated to be 200,000 victims. Cuba has sent hundreds of health personnel to Haiti, whose work has been highlighted in contrast to the American response by the foreign media, including CNN. Experts participating in the TV program reaffirmed that at the moment the quake shook the country there were around 300 Cuban health experts already working in Haiti. After January 12, another brigade of doctors was sent to that nation including Haitians who are studying medicine in Cuba. In the middle of aftershocks like Wednesday’s 6.1 quake, the Cubans make progress in the creation of provisional hospitals equipped with state-of-the-art technology. Meanwhile, the doctors all together have treated more than 10,000 people. Paradoxically, the American government which calls Cuba a terrorist country, is showing a grotesque image to the world as food is dropped from US helicopters down to the Haitian people to create chaos and thus justify their military presence, according to reports read by specialists in the show. A call to be sensitive and sensible is a must in the case of Haiti, in a moment when the government lacks both the resources and infrastructure to deal with the situation as most national emergency experts died during the earthquake and the country’s architecture was devastated. The program highlighted the overwhelming number of children who lost their parents and the number of mutilated people because several patients have suffered amputations of any of their limbs to preserve their lives. Threads of mass exodus due to the hunger and thirst; the Haitian people is living under terror, even though people are still rescued alive from under the rubble like a 11-year-old girl that was pulled out alive from under her house nine days after the 7.0 earthquake brought it down. (Cubaminrex - acn) |