International Relation

Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan President, visited Haiti for the first time. It was an official trip that was intended to discuss the scope of Venezuelan aid for Haiti to help Haiti revive from the ruins of 2010 earthquake. Maduro was supposed to visit Haiti in April but the official tour was cancelled because Haitian President Michel Martelly hosted a regional summit that brought together many heads of state.

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President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, visited Haiti to discuss with the Haitian President Michel Martelly to discuss the renewal of special funds that are directed towards the infrastructural growth of Haiti. Venezuela has been the biggest donor since 2010 earthquake that shattered Haiti. Millions of dollars has been used by Haiti from the PetroCaribe pact signed in 2005 with Venezuela. Haitian President Michel Martelly reported that 94% of Haitian development works are funded by the PetroCaribe funds.

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The current President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro went on his first official visit to Haiti to discuss the renewal of the flow of special funds to aid the impoverished Haitians and help them overcome the consequences of the 2010 earthquake. Maduro said to the reporters that he is representing the former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who could to return to Haiti because of his death caused by cancer.

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Régis Labeaume, Quebec City's Mayor, during a meeting with Minister of Tourism of Haiti, Stéphanie Balmir Villedrouin and UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, Michaëlle Jean, at Quebec City's Town Hall confirmed that Quebec will build a new fire station at Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The Mayor disclosed that a fund of $2 million is agreed upon by a Quebec businessman for the purpose but the Mayor did not reveal the name of the businessman. Labeaume said that Quebec City will plan and build the fire station in collaboration with Haitians and will use Haitian labor and local Haitian raw materials to accomplish the task.

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Here is a picture of the leaders of the two nations in one island. Michel Martelly, the current president of Haiti and Danilo Medina the current president of the Dominican Republic.

It has been reported that the Dominican President Danilo Medina has made some threats as a result of the decision of the Haitian government to ban the import of Dominican chickens and eggs to avoid the propagation of H5N2, or bird flu. Medina said that he would take "drastic measures" to resolve the issue of the ban on Dominican chickens and eggs by the Haitian government. There are no valid reason for the ban as it was confirmed by Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

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Here is a picture of former President Bill Clinton and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Thes two have a log history.

For most of the 1990s Haiti was often in the news as it just elected the populist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the presidency position. However, one year later, Aristide was removed from power by a military coup.

Consequently many Haitians got on boats headed to the U.S. Promising to return Aristide into power when elected. Bill Clinton eventually returned Jean-Bertrand Aristide into power

For the first time in U.S. history, they used force to return a deposed president into power

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This is a picture of the president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez and the former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Hugo Chavez passed away on March 5th, 2013, after fighting hard with a cancer. it is quite a sad day for the people lof venezuela, his friends and supporters.

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Here is a picture of the French and haiti Flag as the French Embassy in Haiti is promoting research with Prix Jean-Christophe Fernandes

Prizes to be awarded to Haitian researchers in the areas of environment and will consist of 75 000 gourds for Award doctoral thesis or scientific publication and 32 000 gourds for Award master or end of engineering studies

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Here is a picture of the Haitian President michel Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe during the funeral of the president of Venezuela, Hogo Chavez. This took place on March 8th, 2013. Some of the critics of the Haitian president had remarked that only the Haitian president and his prime minister were dressed in Red and no other dignitaries it.

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Here is a picture taken on the occasion of the 24th Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). This session was held for the first time in Haiti on 18 and 19 February at Karibe Convention Center in Port-au-Prince.

Also present were representatives of Antigua&Barbuda,D Bahamas,Barbados,Belize,Dominica,Grenada,Guyana,Haiti,Jamaica, Montserrat,Saint Lucia,St.Kitts n Nevis,St. Vincent, Grenadines,Suriname,Trinidad and Tobago

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