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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2005 
Fidel Castro Offers Medical Assistance to Mexican Hurricane Victims
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| | Cuban President Fidel Castro talks about Hurricane Wilma during a live television program in Havana. Western Cuba was buffeted by 86-mph (138-kph) wind gusts and spates of torrential rain from Wilma's outer bands. The hurricane appeared to brush past the island, where authorities had evacuated more than half a million people, but forecasters warned of dangerous storm surges in Havana. (Ismael Francisco-AIN) |
Havana - Cuban President Fidel Castro offered medical assistance for the victims of hurricane Wilma, which hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico over the past two days.
Fidel participated in an informative round table discussion aired on Cuban radio and television, which offered detailed information on hurricane Wilma and tropical depression Alpha.
President Castro said that Cuba is ready to offer the Mexican government the support it needs after the passage of the storm. Given the solidarity that exists between the Cuban and Mexican people, it was a gesture that Cuba was happy to make, he added.
Cuba recently created the Henry Reeve medical contingent to assist victims of disasters and epidemics in any part of the world. Brigades of that contingent are currently assisting victims of natural phenomena in Guatemala, Pakistan and several other countries. |
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