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Pressure to ease restrictions on Cuba heats up in aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
On Aug. 30, just as we were about to put the September 2008 issue of CubaNews to bed, along came Hurricane Gustav--its 212 mph winds making it the strongest storm ever to hit Cuba.
Gustav rained destruction on Cuba's westernmost province, Pinar del Rio, trashing the area's famous tobacco crop and wiping out prized grapefruit orchards on the island municipality of Isla de la Juventud. But Gustav basically left the rest of Cuba alone.
Ike took care of that.
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For 41 terrifying hours last week (Sept. 7-9), this killer storm traveled the length and breadth of Cuba, affecting virtually every one of the island's 14 provinces, destroying or damaging an estimated 200,000 dwellings and forcing the evacuation of 2.5 million Cubans--nearly a fourth of the island's population.
Compared to nearby Haiti, where 600 people died and hundreds of thousands were left homeless by three recent storms, the scale of human suffering in Cuba is minuscule.
Even so, Ike killed five people and injured dozens, and in Havana at least 65 old buildings collapsed. More collapses are likely in the next few days as weakened structures dry out.
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