THE United States’ media coverage of the earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath is patently one-sided and self-serving.

CNN in particular has been focusing on rescue and recovery efforts by Americans mainly.

TV viewers and newspaper readers were not told that immediately after the earthquake struck, about 400 Cuban doctors and medical experts already in Haiti galvanized themselves into action to treat wounded Haitians and save lives.

Many have not been informed that less than 24 hours after the cataclysmic event, the Cuban government dispatched a medical brigade to Haiti to reinforce its contingent already there. That brigade includes Haitians who have been trained for free as doctors in Cuba, and who now have a unique and urgent opportunity to serve their countrymen.

The Cuban medical brigade has set up field hospitals for emergency care, and are attending to thousands of Haitians out of the rangefinders of CNN’s cameras and spotlights.

Surely, it is time the world takes notice of what Cuba, a poor blockaded island, is doing to help a sister Caribbean nation in dire need.
Hemraj Muniram