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 News from Around the Americas | September 2005 
Cuba Expresses Solidarity with US Victims of Katrina
 Prensa Latina
| | The Island's legislators approved the declaration as they stood up and held a minute of silence in memory of the victims |
Havana - The Cuban Parliament expressed on Thursday deep sorrow and solidarity with victims of hurricane Katrina in the United States.
The storm severely hit the city of New Orleans, that is in total chaos and lawlessness on Friday, as well as other towns and localities of the states of Louissiana and Mississippi. The dead are counted by the hundreds.
A declaration of tribute to US victims was the first item on the agenda of the fifth period of sessions of the sixth legislature of Cuba´s National Assembly of the People´s Power.
The text says that news from southern United States "have made the Cuban people sad."
In their name, we hereby express our deep solidarity to the US people, government, local authorities and victims of this disaster, the declaration reads.
The Island's legislators approved the declaration as they stood up and held a minute of silence in memory of the victims.
The document stresses that the heavy burden of death and suffering of the disaster strikes the whole population of Louisiana, Mississipi and Alabama, particularly the poorer.
The most affected people are African Americans, Latin workers and US poor who make up the mass still awaiting to be rescued and sent to safe places, it adds.
The text emphasizes that the greater number of fatalities and people who have been left homeless are from these sectors of population.
"The whole world should feel this tragedy as its own," the declaration concludes. |
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