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I don't think it's odd that Cuba offered aid - Castro offered election observers last time round didn't he? And Venezuela too - Chavez has previously suggested selling cheap oil to poor areas of the US. Both men surely like to show they're above the lies and the petty squabbles the US enjoys starting over their countries, but they also have histories of helping (or at least wanting to help) those who get no benefit from the societies they live in. The people who had nowhere to evacuate to when the storm came certainly fit this profile.
I can't imagine either man kickback funding a $200million kickback bridge to an uninhabited kickback island in Alaska while cutting the flood defence budget for 650,000 people in New Orleans. (did you spot the subliminimal message in there?)
For the record, India declined offers of help after the Tsunami.
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