Noam Chomsky skizziert gestern im Guardian auf ein paar wenigen Zeilen die Umrisse einer Analyse, die ganz neue geopolitische Allianzen erkennen lässt. Hauptsächlich Süd-Süd-Allianzen und Süd-Ost-Allianzen. Während die USA mit aufreibenden, glücklosen Abenteuern im Mittleren Osten beschäftigt sind...

(...) Cuba-Venezuela relations are becoming ever closer, each relying on its comparative advantage. Venezuela is providing low-cost oil, while in return Cuba organises literacy and health programmes, sending thousands of highly skilled professionals, teachers and doctors, who work in the poorest and most neglected areas, as they do elsewhere in the third world. Cuban medical assistance is also being welcomed elsewhere. One of the most horrendous tragedies of recent years was the earthquake in Pakistan last October. Besides the huge death toll, unknown numbers of survivors have to face brutal winter weather with little shelter, food or medical assistance. "Cuba has provided the largest contingent of doctors and paramedics to Pakistan," paying all the costs (perhaps with Venezuelan funding), writes John Cherian in India's Frontline magazine, citing Dawn, a leading Pakistan daily. President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan expressed his "deep gratitude" to Fidel Castro for the "spirit and compassion" of the Cuban medical teams - reported to comprise more than 1,000 trained personnel, 44% of them women, who remained to work in remote mountain villages, "living in tents in freezing weather and in an alien culture", after western aid teams had been withdrawn. (...)

voxmacchiato, Sie haben doch pakistanische Kontakte. Können Sie das mit dem kubanischen Personal bestätigen?