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pedestrian crosses an empty street during the passing of Hurricane Ian in Havana, Cuba, early Thursday, September 27, 2022
HURRICANE Ian tore into western Cuba today, with nothing to stop it from intensifying into a catastrophic Category Four storm before it hits Florida on Wednesday.
Ian made landfall at 4.30am local time in Cuba’s Pinar del Rio province, where officials set up 55 shelters, evacuated 50,000 people, rushed in emergency personnel and took steps to protect crops in the socialist island’s main tobacco-growing region.
While Ian’s centre passed over the west of Cuba, with tropical storm-force winds extending outward 115 miles, the capital Havana faced rain and strong gusts this morning.
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
