Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Pax Christi: Cuban regime diverts international "humanitarian aid"

From: CubDest Information Service
P.O. Box 143.334 Coral Gables  FL 33114  USA
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PAX CHRISTI:
CUBAN REGIME DIVERTS THE INTERNATIONAL "HUMANITARIAN AID"
TO ITS OWN ADVANTAGE
Miami (CubDest, Sept. 7, 1998)-- The Dutch organization Pax Christi,
through its Latin American bureau, has just denounced that Cuba's
communist regime sidetracks a substantial portion of the millionaire
"humanitarian aid" that arrives from abroad for the Cuban people.
In its official communiqué addressed to Caritas Internationalis, to
the World Health Organization (WHO), to the International Red Cross, to
the Pontificial Council for Justice and Peace and to other important
entities involved in distributing such help, Pax Christi warns that "
donated medicines that arrive in Cuba through official channels, hardly
ever reach those for whom they were meant," and that the "international
humanitarian aid in many cases simply disappears to governmental circles
and medical tourism projects (such as Servimed)."
Pax Christi adds that "while the Cuban authorities blame the
US embargo" for the present situation of penury of the Cuban
health system, "Cuba exports medicines to other countries to get foreign
currency which at its turn is not invested in the medical sector accessible
to the common people".
At the same time that the current situation of the
people concerning healthcare is "desperate", "high party and military cadre
do not suffer these shortages," confirms the report.
The Dutch entity, in view of these serious antecedents, calls for an
urgent and drastic "re-evaluation" of the present "procedures of distribution"
of the international "humanitarian aid," to the Cuban people.
Pax Christi's alert, possesses a particular importance moments in
which the World Feed Program of the United Nations negotiates the
sending of $20.5 million dollars in food to the island-prison, some of
which it could come from the United States government. At the same time,
the person responsible of the International Cooperation of the governing
Spanish Popular Party, has just traveled to Havana to keep in touch with
Cuban officials, and announced that his government's aid to Cuba "will
be increased."
In the meantime, Cuban-American legislators, in a letter sent to
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, reminded her that "since the year
of 1959, Castro has used the food as a weapon against the Cuban people,
controlling all the distribution of food, and restricting access to the
food of his opponents."
References:
Erik Laan & Liduine Zumpolle,"To the World Health Organization (WHO),
Caritas Internationalis, the International Federation of Red Cross and
Red Crescent Societies, ECHO-Office of the European Union, Pontificial
Council Justice and Peace, and to other international human rights and
humanitarian organizations concerned," Latin America Dpt., Pax Christi
Netherlands, Aug 24, 1998
Olance Nogueras, "Critican plan de ayuda alimentario," El Nuevo Herald,
Miami, Aug. 30,1998
Reuters, "Naciones Unidas gestiona el envio de alimentos a Cuba," La Otra
Cuba, Mexico, Sept. 2,1998
Mauricio Vicent (desde La Habana), "El PP dice ahora que ya es posible
aumentar las ayudas a Cuba," El Pais, Madrid, Sept. 2, 1998.
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