Famine
Oct 10 2008, Provimar

Emergency airlifts of food, clothing and medicines from Mexico, Venezuela and Russia reveal a humanitarian crisis in Cuba that is unprecedented in scope.Five weeks after Hurricanes Gustav and Ike devastated the island nation’s food supplies – and...

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