AP Interview: Haiti leader says Venezuela aid key

[tabatha]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Haitian President Michel Martelly says aid and fuel shipments from Venezuela are having a big impact in the Caribbean country as it attempts to recover from the devastation of its 2010 earthquake.

President Hugo Chavez's government is providing nearly all the fuel that Haiti consumes under preferential terms, including long-term loans and direct shipping that cuts costs. Martelly said power plants installed by Venezuela after the earthquake supply roughly one-fifth of Haiti's electricity and that Venezuela is also providing key financial support for rice farming and other programs.

"The cooperation with Venezuela is the most important in Haiti right now in terms of impact, direct impact," Martelly told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday night after a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders.

"We are grateful to President Chavez for helping us from the bottom of his heart," Martelly said.

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-interview-haiti-leader-says-venezuela-aid-key-183813004.html

[DeSwiss]

1. K&R n/t

[Mnemosyne]

2. ...

[Peace Patriot]

3. Well, knock me down with a feather! This is not only an Associated Pukes article

reporting something good about the Chavez government, it's a hand-picked, rightwing U.S. puppet saying so!

I am agog.

[txlibdem]

5. Fascist USA is becoming more and more irrelevant in world affairs

The only frightening thing to the world's nations is our out-of-control military budget. That is why they feel the need to form mutual protection pacts and economic blocs.

The US has no moral standing in the world... and it never has. We've been the jack-booted bully from the Mexican-American War till today. America needs to change or the world should begin to shun and exclude us.

[limpyhobbler]

4. I'm surprised we haven't heard more about Haiti since the earthquake

I'm surprised we haven't heard more about Haiti since the earthquake.