Haiti Police Open Fire on Protesters
Source: Associated Press
October 17, 2018 1:12 PM
Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE —
Hundreds of people protested on the streets of Haiti's capital Wednesday, demanding an investigation into the alleged diversion of $3.8 billion (US dollars) of funds from a Venezuelan oil agreement with Haiti and other Caribbean countries.
Police officers fired live ammunition at unarmed protesters.
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Moise and his wife Martine attended a ceremony to commemorate the death of Haiti's founding father Jean Jacques Dessalines and the protests could be heard throughout the event.
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Petrocaribe was launched in June, 2005 as a Caribbean oil alliance with Venezuela giving members preferential treatment for energy purchase, at a discounted price with low-interest deferred terms and an option to pay in kind instead of currency.
Read more: https://www.voanews.com/a/haiti-police-open-fire-on-protesters-/4617500.html
(You may recall reading comments from spinners that Venezuela was/is giving "free oil" to Cuba, etc. and blaming it all on Hugo Chavez. The arrangement started long before Hugo Chavez was elected as Venezuela's President. Adding this material to set the record straight, having done it already previous times when it had been too long between spins without enough corrections! )
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AUG. 4, 1993
Mexico, Venezuela renew 'Pact of San Jose'
MEXICO -- Mexico and Venezuela announced the renewal, for the 13th consecutive year, of an agreement on energy cooperation with Central America and the Caribbean that provides loans for the area's developing countries from the oil contributed by the two producing countries.
The announcement of the renewal of the Accord of San Jose Tuesday was made simultaneously in Mexico City and the Venezuelan capital of Caracas in statements from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs.
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Under the terms of the accord, Mexico and Venezuela have agreed to jointly provide 160,000 barrels of oil daily to the program, with each country contributing 50 percent of that amount.
Up to 20 to 25 percent of the oil's value, depending on the prices realized, will be used as long term loans to finance commercial exchange and high-priority development projects in beneficiary countries, according to the Mexican Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
More:
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/08/04/Mexico-Venezuela-renew-Pact-of-San-Jose/4286744436800/
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OIL-LATAM: Venezuela Insists on Cuba’s Admission to San Jose Pact
By IPS Correspondents
Luis Cordova
CARACAS, Aug 6 1999 (IPS) - Venezuela will continue to insist that Mexico agree to allow Cuba and other nations to join the San Jose Pact, through which the two countries sell oil to 11 Central American and Caribbean nations under preferential conditions.
The Pact was officially renewed by presidents Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Thursday, without any of the changes suggested by Caracas.
“Venezuela has proposed to Mexico the expansion of the accord to other Caribbean nations, including Cuba,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations Jorge Valero said Friday. But “Mexico raised objections to the inclusion of Cuba.”
He clarified, however, that the question had already been discussed and agreed, and that there was “no dispute with respect to the contents of the accord.”
More:
http://www.ipsnews.net/1999/08/oil-latam-venezuela-insists-on-cubas-admission-to-san-jose-pact/
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