30185: Blanchet (comment) Chavez in Haiti -- Moved by the welcome of the Heroic People of Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Max Blanchet <maxblanchet@worldnet.att.net>

Tripartite agreement signed by Préval, Chavez and Lazo, Cuba's second vice 
president.

Its focus is twofold:

   * Strengthening the collaboration in the health field with the
     technical input coming from Cuba and the financing from Venezuela.
     There are 500 or so Cuban medical personnel in all of Haiti' s 
communes and Cuba's  medical schools are graduating 125 Haitian
     doctors yearly. Hundreds of other Haitian students are attending
     Cuban universities. All are on full scholarship paid by the Cuban
     government.
   * Infrastructure, including the building of power plants (100 MW to
     operate on Venezuelan heavy oil,) airports, roads, etc. Haiti is
     already part of PetroCaribe, a Venezuelan program, which gives it
     access to petroleum products a preferable prices and easy credit.

Max Blanchet

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