text: Havana was also in the news yesterday.  There was film footage.
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  Both Cuba and Puerto Rico were hammered by the Irma-Maria hurricane one-two punch.
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  But, without help, Cuba picked itself up, and is back running again, and none of the international news services is saying anything more about hurricane damage in Cuba. (I checked, not a single story yesterday - NYT, CBC, BBC, RFI, DW, Al-Jazeera, NPR, PBS - nothing).
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  Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico, the richest country in the world is letting its citizens die.
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  Yesterday the White House has just discovered that Puerto Rico "Is an island.  Surrounded by water.  Big Water. The Ocean."
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  We are told the response is "Incredible".
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  Well, that's one word for it.
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  Puerto Rico is full of people who are poor, Hispanic and non-white.
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  If Puerto Rico were full of old white evangelical Christian Republican men, would the mayor of San Juan be begging for help?
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  Maybe she should have asked Havana for help, not Washington.