Haiti President pays 24-hour visit to Venezuela

[Judi Lynn]

Caracas, Monday April 24 , 2006
Haiti President pays 24-hour visit to Venezuela

Haitian President elect Rene Preval Monday is paying a 24-hour visit to Venezuela and is meeting with President Hugo Chávez, Preval's Office informed.

"This is a friendly visit. President Preval is to seize the opportunity to set the grounds for future discussions with President Chávez," the source told AFP.

During the visit, both Preval and Chávez are to address Petrocaribe, an oil initiative Venezuela is implementing to sell cheap oil to Central America and Caribbean countries, and which Haiti has recently joined, the source added.
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http://english.eluniversal.com/2006/04/24/en_pol_art_24A698119.shtml



Chavez to add Haiti to Petrocaribe
CARACAS, Venezuela, April 24 (UPI) -- Venezuela will help Haiti meet its energy needs, President Hugo Chavez has said.

"We are going to include Haiti in Petrocaribe and send it all the fuel it needs," he said Sunday on "Hello, President" television program. "We are also building storage facilities with a special fund."

The comments were reported by Venezuelan Union Radio's Web site.

Haitian President-elect Rene Preval was in Venezuela Monday to sign Haiti up to the Venezuelan oil initiative
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http://www.upi.com/Energy/view.php?StoryID=20060424-022758-4721r

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Remember this?



http://www.hurah.revolt.org/Hurah/Accompaniment/SIS/burnedballots.htm

You may want to remind yourself of what was done to prevent this election from succeeding:

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
Haiti election turmoil deepens after ballots discovered in dump
By Tim Collie

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's troubled elections were dealt another blow Wednesday with the discovery of dozens of ballot boxes and polling materials scattered across a landfill just outside the capital city.

The discovery seemed to back charges by front-runner René Préval that fraud and "gross errors" plagued the Feb. 7 presidential contest.

"Just look at this — this is what the rich of this country think of our votes," said Renel Duqueres, a landfill worker who said he began noticing the ballot boxes being dumped last week. "They just kept coming and coming, and we burned a lot of them. But then it just became too much."
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002808440_haiti16.html

[Robbien]

1. Hopefully Preval will be able to keep the oil out of the hands of the rich

and put the oil to good use.

I wish him well and hope plenty of good luck comes his way. Haiti deserves a break. Its long overdue.

[Divernan]

2. If any political leader can truly help troubled Haiti, it's Chavez.

Sounds like some good news for the people of Haiti, at last.

[Mika]

3. No way! Wanna know why? Because Chavez is..

.. a friend of (((¡¡gasp!!))) Castro.

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