19798: Minsky: Letter to NYTimes ed. by list member Slavin (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: "tminsky@ix.netcom.com" <tminsky@ix.netcom.com>

List member Slavin's NYTimes letter to the editor.
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March 2, 2004

To the Editor:

Re "Haiti President Forced Out; Marines Sent to Keep
Order" (front page,March 1):

The United States is likely to pressure Haiti's
interim president to cut Haiti's ties with Cuba, a relationship forged by
Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Fidel Castro.

One effective development program in Haiti today is
Cuba's medical brigades, the more than 500 doctors and nurses who
work in hospitals and clinics throughout Haiti. In the provinces, where
most Haitians reside, Cuban doctors and nurses outnumber the Haitian
medical personnel.

Now, thanks to the presence of international
peacekeeping troops, a priority for President Bush must be to do what is
best for Haiti's malnourished and sick; part of the solution is
keeping Cuban health professionals at their posts.

J. P. SLAVIN
New York, March 1, 2004
The writer was a freelance journalist in Haiti, 1990-93.


Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/opinion/L02HAIT.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEdi
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Minsky adds note: At an NYU discussion on Haiti last nite
(with McCalla, Dash, Coupeau) American interests in Haiti...
what are they? question was posed. And inquiring minds have asked me
too.  Cuba -- A.'s relationship with (and I suppose proximity) was the
first of the answers.












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