Some humanitarian aid sent for victims of Hurricane Lili in Cuba will be sent to storm victims in other Caribbean countries, Catholic charity officials said Sunday.
After Lili pounded Cuba two weeks ago, more than 30 tons of aid was collected and flown to the island. But the Cuban government said Saturday it would return one-fourth of the aid, stating that the boxes were marked with ``counter-revolutionary propaganda.'' The words ``Exile'' and ``For Cuba, love conquers all'' were written on some of the boxes.
But U.S. export licenses prohibit the return of the donations to the United States.
``The only thing we can do with it is to give it to hurricane victims elsewhere, perhaps those in the Bahamas,'' Peter Coats, a special assistant to the Archdiocese of Miami, said Sunday.
Coats said the last report he received from aid officials in Cuba was that about three-quarters of aid was being transported to the provinces of Villa Clara and Sancti Spiritus, where Lili caused severe damage to agriculture.
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