By:Ernesto Pantaleòn Medina
The last September 8, 2008, the Cubans received (and of what way) a bad news: the hurricane "Ike" had destroyed a good part of the country, but the day 9 we already had another news, this good time: the town rose on the brashes and fallen trees, on the satiny crops, and as a single arm rushed to the recovery.
Some weeks later, another meteorological phenomenon of great intensity, "Paloma", crossed the oriental region of the archipelague and left a sad rake of collapses and floods.
Without stopping the works that had undertaken, thousands of men and women should tighten their forces to resist the lash that only in Santa Cruz del Sur, coastal population of the county of Camagüey, demolished 300 properties almost and damaged severely other 200. A couple of months later the constructions run off with of what will be the new establishment, in a surer area, far from the coast.
From regions fewer affected, and still of those that suffered the effects of the nature, manufacturers' brigades, electricians and non specialized people went, as the peasants that insisted immediately in the restoration of the houses of curing tobacco in Pinar del Río.
Hundred of thousands of having evacuated received sure housing in schools or other facilities far from the areas of danger, and that for their conditions guaranteed the security of the most valuable well in today's Cuba: the human life. Medical care, constant information through television and the radio, appropriate feeding, even the one prescribed old men, sick persons or children, who stayed in a stable way, next to the most transcendent thing in situations like those described: the solidarity, a hand friend in the place and the precise moment
And although the comparisons could not sometimes be good, in some cases they are necessary and definitories
Several years after the "Katrina", thousands of black North American don't have housing, neither grieve services of health and the education exhibits big breaches.
Has not a high percent of the population of New Orleans returned to its residence places, neither data that allow to predict a soon return, exist because where to make comfortable to restart a life that the waters were taken? Thousands of knocked down houses or crawled by the floods still wait for a modest constructive effort that doesn't arrive.
No authority was able to foresee the disaster, neither there is apparently who remedies it.
And what is worse: to who to go? that it is known, don't exist in the United States societies protectors of the black , neither there are that occupies in charge of the Indian or of the poor person in favor of who no hand rises, as it is not with an imperative gesture, that that places a vertical finger on the lips, and that seemed to say: " silence, men and women without rights."
