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<b>Subject:</b> FW: [ActionGreens] Dengue Sabotage in Cuba<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Reagan and his CIA did the exact same thing to the Nicaraguans in the Fall of 1985 when I went down there to Nicaragua in order to help them out. May the
Reaganites rot in hell! Fab.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Ben Linder Instead of Me<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Down to Nicaragua in 1985<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">With my Friends and Comrades-in-Arms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Ramsey Clark and Len Weinglass (R.I.P.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">To stop Reagan’s contra terrorist mercenary bands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Tormenting, torturing, murdering, raping, pillaging, devastating
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Nicaragua’s long-suffering people<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Under a <i>contra</i> death threat for all Americans<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Subjected to CIA biowarfare by Hemorrhagic Dengue Fever<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">For which there is no cure<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">The three of us marched on our way anyway<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Instead of us lawyers
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Reagan and his <i>contras</i> murdered Ben Linder<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">A Noble Engineer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Bringing fresh water to the poor campesinos in the countryside<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Ripping Ben from his Family’s arms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i>Ben was a Martyr for Peace!<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Reagan and his <i>contras</i> got Ben Linder instead of me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">I have led a full life<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">But not so he<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Struck down in his young manhood<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">By a gang of American criminals and their terrorists<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">So I write this poem in Honor of Ben<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">May Ben’s Name live forever!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">I know his Soul already does<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">R.I.P.: Ben Linder<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Instead of me<o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:ActionGreens@yahoogroups.com">ActionGreens@yahoogroups.com</a> [<a href="mailto:ActionGreens@yahoogroups.com">mailto:ActionGreens@yahoogroups.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 18, 2017 10:48 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [ActionGreens] Dengue Sabotage in Cuba<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-weight:normal"><a href="http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2017-06-05/the-silent-sabotage-cuba-will-never-forget">http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2017-06-05/the-silent-sabotage-cuba-will-never-forget</a></span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">The silent sabotage Cuba will never forget<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="gmail-m6583215925168464495gmail-g-story-description"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">On June 1, 1964, Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro denounced, for the first time, the United States' biological war against Cuba. Granma International interviews
two leading figures in the struggle against hemorrhagic dengue which had been purposefully introduced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span class="gmail-m6583215925168464495gmail-g-story-author"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Author:
<a href="http://en.granma.cu/archivo?a=1629" target="_blank" title="Más artículos de Alejandra García">
<span class="gmail-m6583215925168464495gmail-byline-author">Alejandra García</span></a> |
<a href="mailto:internet@granma.cu" target="_blank" title="Escribir a Alejandra García">
internet@granma.cu</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">june 5, 2017 17:06:41<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m6583215925168464495gmail-caption-text"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Fidel constantly visited medical centers during the hemorrhagic dengue epidemic.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">
<b>Photo: </b><span class="gmail-m6583215925168464495gmail-credit">Archive</span>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">It was a nightmare. Emergency rooms were flooded with children, and then adults, with symptoms that began with what appeared to be those of a common cold, and then worsened rapidly when treated as such. Within a
few day at the end of May, 1981, all the country's hospitals and polyclinics were facing the most lethal epidemic experienced since the triumph of the Revolution, and did not know how the disease had suddenly appeared, or how to stop its spread.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">The first cases were reported in the Havana municipality of Boyeros, in an area close to José Martí International Airport. Over the next few months, what was discovered to be hemorrhagic dengue, introduced into Cuba
by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), affected 344,203 persons across the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Immediately following the first cases in Boyeros, the virus spread across the capital in an almost explosive manner, according to José González Valdés, consulting professor at Havana's University of Medical Sciences,
who in 1981 was the director of the Centro Habana Pediatric Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Speaking with <b>Granma International
</b>(GI), he recalled, "The symptoms of type 2 dengue, spread by the <i>Aedes Aegypti</i> mosquito, were becoming common among children in the area of Centro Habana and nearby municipalities: fever; retro-orbital, abdominal, and muscular pain; rash; headache;
and asthenia - frequently accompanied by multiple hemorrhages with different degrees of severity. We immediately advised the highest levels of Hygiene and Epidemiology."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">By the first days of June, the Centro Habana Pediatric Hospital, he continued, "became the command center, one could say, to monitor the epidemic and coordinate actions to confront it. Held here were the first meetings
with participants from the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Epidemiology, microbiologists, researchers from the Pedro Kourí Hospital of Tropical Medicine, and other directors and professors from pediatric hospitals in the City of Havana."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">On a daily basis, the hospital admitted 400 to 500 sick children, "but on occasion, 1,200 to 1,300 arrived," Dr. Gonzalez said. During those months, the hospital was obliged to organize three groups of staff members
who worked until 5:00pm everyday and stayed in the emergency room for the night, every other day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">"Many stayed permanently," nurse Bárbara Cristina Viñet Morales told
<b>GI</b>. At that time, she was an emergency room nurse at the "Pediatric," now assistant director of nursing, and one of the few staff members who has remained at the hospital since the 1981 epidemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">In her 47 years of experience, Bárbara said, she has never again experienced an epidemiological situation like that, "At that time, just 22 years old, the hospital was my home. As the mother I was, with two little
ones, I couldn't bear to see a sick child, or not be here to help, with the families," she recalled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">According to Dr. Gonzalez, "The entire medical staff at our hospital was focused on taking care of sick children and their families, in their majority of very modest means. The first to show his concern was the Comandante
en Jefe. He visited the hospital unannounced nine times. He was well-informed about everything, and always went to see the children, ask them how they felt and what they would like to study when they grew up. They answered, laughed, and the families felt confident,
that they could trust him and the doctors treating their little ones."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Bárbara added, "This was the best experience of those days, to have been so close to Fidel. Once, when the nurses and doctors were giving the Comandante a tour of the hospital, we entered a ward with about 40 beds.
All the children there emerged from the oxygen tents that we used at the time and ran to embrace him. One of them shouted: "Pioneers for Communism!" and the rest responded (as they did in school), "We will be like Che!" It was very moving."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">The lowest number of deaths in all the city's hospitals was recorded at the Pediatric during the epidemic, from the end of May through September, with only two. But according to the doctor, "They were very hard days
for everyone. Despite saving many lives, we lost a baby and a seven-year-old girl."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Bárbara explained to <b>GI</b>, "One of the most traumatic moments was seeing the girl die. She was from Santiago de Cuba and had come to Havana to see her aunt, who was also a nurse at the hospital. We couldn't
do much for the little one. The virus had weakened her immune system too much. Remembering it still fills me with pain and powerlessness."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">These were not isolated events. For years, Cuba had been facing biological attacks meant to affect the people's health and deliver a blow to the nation's economy. On June 1, 1964, Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro
denounced, for the first time, the United States' bacteriological war against the country. A few days before his statement, a large number of shiny objects falling from the sky had alarmed the province of Sancti Spíritus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">In his condemnation, published June 2 on the front page of the daily newspaper
<b>Revolución</b>, Fidel stated, "Eyewitnesses, among them members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, reported that there were balloons of different sizes… which dissolved upon contact with the earth, leaving a gelatinous substance… similar to that used (in
labs) to cultivate bacteria."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">This was only the beginning of what was to become the "most brutal and inhumane" war, that cost lives and incalculable damage. "Imperialism's lack of scruples and impotence before the consolidation and advance of
our Revolution, led them to conceive the most monstrous actions against our country," Fidel said in his statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Over the following years, the nation was struck by porcine fever; Bovine nodular pseudo-dermatosis; brucellosis among cattle; sugar cane mold and rust; tobacco blue mold; coffee rust; poultry New Castle and infectious
bronchitis; hemorrhagic conjunctivitis; dysentery; and type two dengue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Exhaustive studies carried out over the years have shown that every one of these epidemics was deliberately introduced from abroad. Among all the outbreaks, hemorrhagic dengue was the most lethal. Very few Cuban
families escaped the epidemic that affected 344,203 persons across the country, leaving 158 dead, including 101 children under 15 years of age.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Neither Dr. González or nurse Bárbara Viñet will ever forget that year when they saw the face of the worst attack Cuba has suffered, a biological one. "Very unlikely that there could be a more dehumanizing war than
this one," the doctor concludes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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