This video from Cuba says about itself:
Graduation Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina in Havana, we talk to some US graduates.
Fortunately, in Haiti there is not just the horrible earthquake, and its aftermath of so many injured and hungry people, of militarism, of child trafficking, etc.
Haiti seems to decrease tensions between the USA and Cuba somewhat.
Translated from Dutch news agency ANP:
US-Cuban cooperation in Haiti
HAVANA – Eight US American doctors will join a Cuban medical team in helping earthquake victims in Haiti. This is what Cuban and U.S. officials announced this Friday.
The Americans have graduated from the ELAM medical school in the Cuban capital Havana. The US Americans and approximately one thousand people from the present Cuban team will work in a hospital in Croix-des-Bouqets, a suburb in the north of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.
For half a century, the U.S. and Communist
“Communism” means a completely classless and stateless society. No-one claims Cuba has reached that stage yet. So, this is a careless use of the word “communist”.
Cuba have had a very tense relationship, which inter alia led to a U.S. boycott. Under President Barack Obama, relationships are getting better slowly.
Already shortly after the earthquake in Haiti, Cuba gave the United States permission to use Cuban airspace to transport victims of the natural disaster.
The airspace issue, if reported correctly, would be really a sign of better relationships between the two governments.
However, as far as know (please correct me if I am wrong), these US American doctors are coming to Haiti on their own initiative, and not as US government representatives. They got their medical education in Cuba, as they considered there were better possibilities for them there than in their own country. They did so, very much against the wishes of the George W. Bush administration and earlier US administrations.
Latin American leaders have warned that Haiti was in danger of being turned into a US military base after the commander of US forces in the earthquake-devastated country declared that his 15,000 soldiers “will stay as long as is necessary”: here.
Haiti: From Batay Ouvriye – Position Statement: here.
Related articles
- Cuban Doctors Bring Eyesight, Healthcare to Haiti (ipsnews.net)
- PAHO issues cholera update for Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba (theglobaldispatch.com)
- ‘Spiderman’ scales iconic Cuban hotel (sykose.com)
Dear Kitty. Some blog 
US ‘kidnappers’ charged in Haiti
Haiti: Ten US missionaries have been formally charged with child kidnapping and criminal association for illegally trying to smuggle children out of Haiti.
The 10 US citizens from two Baptist churches were arrested last week on Haiti’s border with the Dominican Republic when they tried to cross the border with 33 children.
But most of the children turned out not to be orphans and Haitian police said that some parents admitted handing over their children to the missionaries in the belief that they would get a better life.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/86465
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Haiti: The corporate vultures circle
By Regan Boychuk
February 3, 2010 — Haitians’ incredible plight has always been
difficult to fully appreciate. Then the earthquake struck: hundreds of
thousands dead, hundreds of thousands more hurt, a million homeless and
two million in need of food. It defies imagination.
* Read more http://links.org.au/node/1497
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Haiti: Anti-Brazil mobilisations grow in quake’s wake
Introduction and translation by Felipe Stuart Cournoyer
February 1, 2010 — Below is a translation of a news report that
appeared in the January 31, 2010, issue of the Brazilian newspaper Folha
de São Paulo. One of the most vexing issues in Latin America’s relations
with Haiti is the grievous lack of understanding on the part of
anti-imperialist forces about the nature of the repeated imperialist
occupations of the former French colony, and of the crushing of the
Lavalas movement, including the ouster of the country’s democratically
elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
* Read more http://links.org.au/node/1494
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How credible is Human Rights Watch on Cuba?
By Tim Anderson
February 11, 2010 — In late 2009 the New York-based group Human Rights
Watch published a report titled New Castro Same Cuba. Based on the
testimony of former prisoners, the report systematically condemns the
Cuban government as an “abusive” regime that uses its “repressive
machinery … draconian laws and sham trials to incarcerate scores more
who have dared to exercise their fundamental freedoms”.
So how credible is this scathing report on Cuba? And who does Human
Rights Watch represent?
* Read more http://links.org.au/node/1506
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