U.S. offers to help Cuban victims of Gustav!
Fri Sep 5, 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has offered to help Cuban victims of Hurricane Gustav by sending aid through relief organizations instead of the government of President Raul Castro, the State Department said on Friday.
Washington informed the Cuban government two days ago that it was prepared to provide the assistance, but had heard nothing back from Cuban officials, said State Department spokeswoman Heide Bronke.
She said the chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana had some $100,000 available to help Cubans affected by Saturday’s storm.
The Cubans had been told that the Americans were prepared to “work through appropriate non-governmental organizations to deliver relief as quickly and directly as possible to assist Cubans affected by Hurricane Gustav,” Bronke said.
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