Venezuela Sending 364 Tons of Food to Haiti

President Hugo Chávez said that tons of seven extended-consumption food will be shipped and recalled the terrible situation of Latin America’s and the Caribbean’s first independent nation

“We are providing Haiti with a shipment of food in the next hours,” announced the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, on April 12, during the Meeting of Intellectuals and Artists for the Latin American Peace and Sovereignty, held in Caracas.

This aid includes 364 tons of food to contribute towards a solution of the critical situation in the Caribbean nation as a consequence of the increase of food prices, especially rice, which has unleashed violent riots in the last days.

This shipment will include 52 tons of each of the following foodstuffs: meat, chicken, mortadella, milk, black beans, oil and lentils. “This will help alleviate somehow a very big and deep crisis,” added President Chávez.

“Tomorrow they’ll attack me. Sure they are going to tell the Venezuelan people that I’m giving away food, while it lacks here. But as our people has developed a conscience, these attacks generally crash into the Venezuelan people’s steadiness,” he said.