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Old 06-26-2008, 07:26 PM
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The achievements of the Cuban revolution never cease to amaze. The proportion of human resources Cuba shares with the world must be completely without rival.

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MORE than 100,000 Cuban specialists and technicians have provided services in cooperation with Africa over the last 45 years, it was reported on Wednesday at the 13th International Seminar on Current Problems in Africa and the Middle East held in Havana.

Representatives of Cuba’s Ministry for Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation informed delegates at the event, held in the Casa de Africa in Old Havana, that Cuba has provided that cooperation for the benefit of millions of people.

Likewise, it has assisted countries facing problems such as illiteracy, famine, preventable and curable diseases, low birth weight babies and underweight children, and high infant and maternal mortality rates, along with nations with citizens who are part of the more than 29 million people infected with HIV/AIDS.

Cuban internationalists have built bridges, roads, schools, hospitals, factories, and laboratories, and have taught new techniques for planting, protecting forests, raising and managing animals and promoting the fishing industry, ministry representatives explained.

They said one milestone in this field over this period was the almost 34,000 African students who have graduated from Cuban schools, while Cuban medical collaboration has been and continues to be the largest, most stable and most present in Africa.

As an example, they explained that from 1999 to 2007, more than 857,000 human lives have been saved through the Comprehensive Health Program; likewise, more than 36.29 million medical consultations have been made, more than 626,000 surgeries had been performed and 549,826 births had been attended.

Last year, Cuba carried out 211 cooperation projects in 52 African countries, and that contribution was made on the basis of the principles of solidarity, internationalism and with a high degree of humanism, they explained.

Marcelino dos Santos, a member of the Central Committee of the Mozambique Liberation Front Party (FRELIMO), noted that June 25 was his country’s Independence Day, thanked the Cuban people for their solidarity and cooperation with African nations.
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I find the phrasing of the article unfortunate, reeking of "orientalism" as it repeatedly refers to Cuba's cooperation with "Africa." That is, referring to Africa as a monolithic entity, not acknowledging until the second-to-last paragraph that there are actually various countries in Africa.


Aside from that, well done Cuba, as usual, with foreign aid.
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I find the phrasing of the article unfortunate, reeking of "orientalism" as it repeatedly refers to Cuba's cooperation with "Africa." That is, referring to Africa as a monolithic entity, not acknowledging until the second-to-last paragraph that there are actually various countries in Africa.


Aside from that, well done Cuba, as usual, with foreign aid.
I know what you mean. However, i don't think it is any different to when people talk about any continent. Also Fidel himself has often talked about delivering aid to countries regardless of ideology and saying Africa instead of a country by country basis only underlines Cuba's commitment to helping the entire region, regardless of national politics.
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I can't Find a second source of this story. I rarely trust links.

But I am not surprised, Cuba has been a pretty generous country for a long time. Good on them.
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I can't Find a second source of this story. I rarely trust links.

But I am not surprised, Cuba has been a pretty generous country for a long time. Good on them.
It's no surprise that capitalist outlets would rather conceal the generousity and achievements of the Cuban revolution.
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It's no surprise that capitalist outlets would rather conceal the generousity and achievements of the Cuban revolution.
Come on man...

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Cuba's aid programme in Bolivia
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Sure you can find the odd story, but they are all too rare in comparison with the negative.
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Sure you can find the odd story, but they are all too rare in comparison with the negative.
You sound like an Iraq war apologist complaining about the press only reporting bad things about Iraq.



Just sayin'
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You sound like an Iraq war apologist complaining about the press only reporting bad things about Iraq.



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haha if only that were true about the press. Infact it was reported that the BBC only showed 2% of anti war coverage.

You seriously can't compare the two anyway. Do you really think there are many positive stories about Cuba in the media ? The coverage is beyond disproportionate. Why do you think i have to get all my links from Granma ?
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The simple fact is is that there is not much coverage at all of Cuba.

Yes, most of it is usually negative, but honestly, most international news is negative, whether it be of Russia, France, Zimbabwe, Australia, Cuba, Canada, whatever.
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