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    Brazil's Rousseff: Visas offered to Haiti

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Brazil is offering 6,000 visas to Haitians over a five-year period as one of several efforts that look to help the troubled Caribbean nation get on its feet, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday.

    She was visiting to showcase Brazilian efforts helping Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake two years ago. In one project, a commission formed by Brazil and Cuba is helping train 2,000 Haitian health workers and building three hospitals, she said.

    Rousseff said her country would issue 1,200 visas annually to Haitians during the next five years while also seeking to crack down on smuggling operations.

    "We want to stand on the side of Haiti so that Haitians can have a better life," Rousseff told reporters on the grounds of the National Palace, which is still a pile of white crumbled cement since the 2010 earthquake.

    Brazil has been a major funder of reconstruction efforts after the 2010 quake.

    One of the projects Rousseff highlighted is the renovation of a hydroelectric dam in the heart of Haiti for which Brazil gave $2.5 million to carry out several studies. Repairs to the 54-megawatt Peligre facility are expected to begin this year and are expected to restore the power plant to full capacity in 2015.

    The United Nations says Brazil has pledged $164 million for quake recovery projects and has spent about three-quarters of that.

    All together, donors have pledged $4.5 billion to help rebuild Haiti, but only about half of that has been released, the U.N. Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti says.

    Haitian President Michel Martelly said he hopes Rousseff will help him lobby other countries to meet their pledges.

    "We ask the president of Brazil to help retrieve the money that was promised to Haiti," Martelly said.

    Rousseff said Brazil will soon begin a gradual withdrawal of troops it has in the United Nations peacekeeping force, reducing its contingent to 1,900 soldiers. Brazil currently provides almost a quarter of the 11,000 peacekeepers, more than other country, for the U.N. mission that arrived in 2004 in Haiti in the aftermath of a violent rebellion.

     

    21 comments

    • david  •  3 mths ago
      glad to see someone else chipping in i always thought the UNITED STATES always held the bag
    • mad  •  Irvine, California  •  3 mths ago
      Once there they won't want to leave
      • A Yahoo! User 3 mths ago
        shut ur mouth u racist
      • whataboutit 3 mths ago
        Yeah, they had that problem with the dirty nazi's.
    • Professor  •  3 mths ago
      PT Party (Workers Party) has transformed Brazil. It was the 14th economy at the end of Cardozo administration. Now, Brazil is the 6th, ahead of Britain! It should surpass France in one year. 37 million Brazilians were freed from poverty and now belong to the middle class. Brazil is already a country of middle class with greatest GDP per capita of its history. Brazil is the 4th largest car producer and 3th airplane manufacturer in the planet. Is self-sufficient in energy and most of it renewable. And all that in just 10 years! How many countries can claim the same record. Congratulations to Lula, Dilma Rousseff and PT.
      • Ken 3 mths ago
        #$%$
    • Pats Fan 1960  •  Gainesville, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Haiti is the western hemispheres Somalia.No matter how much money you waste on that garbage pit it will never change.Oh well at leat the corrupt government there will have a new dam.
      • A Yahoo! User 3 mths ago
        shut ur mouth u garbage
      • Larry 3 mths ago
        garbige pit like ur house...
      • Sun of a Beach 3 mths ago
        How much would you bet the little mouse saying "shut your mouth" is a haitian monkey ? Larry too.
    • whataboutit  •  Sao Paulo, Brazil  •  3 mths ago
      It is so sad that so often the people making the most racist comments about and for Brazil have never been to Brazil. Most have never been any further than the next town over from them.Brazil is the progressive country that the US use to be. Brazil does not reach out its hand when the story is big in the news, they do it when it is the right thing to do. They do it far more then you morons would know, to groups that you complain about how awful their situation is but would not offer shelter to. " What does it profit a man to gain the world and yet lose his soul?" "What so ever you do to the least of my brothers, that you also do onto me." Brazil is the Christian country that so many of your racist claim that the US is. A tree is known by its fruit, and a man by his deeds. It is not enough to declare yourself a christian and then turn around and act like a horn wearing heathen. Worry about the meth lab or should I say LABS up the street in your town.
      • RudyP 3 mths ago
        How can anyone make RACIST comments about Brazilians for there is no such thing as a Brazilian race?
    • Barry puff daddy  •  3 mths ago
      Better you then us.
    • Horacio  •  3 mths ago
      Criminal Record of DILMA ROUSSEFF."President of Brazil" since 1967 member of a Guerrilla Marxist group.6/10/68 Asault ao Banespa.12/10/68 Plan to assesinated Cap.Charles R.Chandler.11/12/69 Asault ri Quitanna osasco.1/8/68 Asault Bank Mercantil de Sao Paulo.11/12/68Asault house of Diana Armas.8/7/69 Asault House Governor Adhemar de Barros.Setember 1969 asault Forth de Forca Publica barro Branco.This Woman is nothing but a common Communist criminal.She did time in prison for his criminal activities
    • Professor  •  3 mths ago
      Some around here should pay attention to Brazil, which has just overtook Britain to become the 6th largest economy in the planet. It is expected to surpass France during the present year and Germany before 2016. It is already the 4th largest car producer and 3rd largest commercial jet manufacturer.
    • chuck r  •  3 mths ago
      Brazil has enough poverty of its own. Their new Left winged president is spending far too much time hanging out with extremists and not enough consolidating the impressive gains of her predecessor.
    • Thomas  •  Baku, Azerbaijan  •  3 mths ago
      Better hope they dont bring their "Bad JU JU "
    • Horacio  •  3 mths ago
      The "President"of Brazil is nothing but a common criminal.Dilma Vana Rousseff Linhares,was a communist guerrilla and a Terrorist and asault of Bank acording to her record in prison.Her # in prison was De antigo 00237.When she was a guerrilla she uses alias "LUISA""PATRICIA""VAUDA".This Woman participate in asalting Banks and other terrorist activities.Latinamerica is running by crooks,The Castro Brothers,Chavez,Correa,Evo Morales,and Dilma Rousseff,
    • rogerleolafontaine  •  Zelienople, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      Sounds like the decent thing to do.
    • Professor  •  3 mths ago
      The South American economic giant has $206.4 billion in holdings, according to the Treasury. Brazil’s investment into U.S. debt has been fluctuating slightly in the past two years, with current holdings under the high of $211.4 billion in May 2011.
    • ohiofor6  •  Salvador, Brazil  •  3 mths ago
      P.s. to the Madam President of the great federative republic of Brasil ------------ could be a good idea if Hatians are accepted in trade for convicted drug traffickers and crooked politicians from Brasil to Haiti.
    • Richard  •  3 mths ago
      brazil do the usa a favor (1) take back all your illegals from brazil in the usa( 2) you can have all the illegal chinese ,india nationals ,argentines,peruvians and mexicans we have in the usa and see how you like it .
    • pete  •  Belo Horizonte, Brazil  •  3 mths ago
      Gosh It's Sad to See So Many Racist People, And Wonder Why Nobody Likes Americans Anymore......
    • Sun of a Beach  •  Pleasanton, California  •  3 mths ago
      Maybe the new Brazilian president should focus on keeping her own country on a stable path towards prosperity instead getting side tracked spending her countries wealth on a Carribean basket case. Complete sterilization and birth control is the only way to solve that island trash dumps woes.
    • Richard  •  3 mths ago
      brazil is really being so generous only 1000 visas for haiti a year ...after all they send the usa thousands of illegal brazilians a year for the last ten years and the majority of brazilian nationals in the usa are illegal either smuggled in like a sneaky haitian does in boats from the carribean or on phony tourist visas ...such hypocrisy from this lying cheating brazil .
    • ohiofor6  •  Salvador, Brazil  •  3 mths ago
      Note to the Dear Madam President of the great federative republic of Brasil ---- Stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Stony  •  3 mths ago
      Arent there enough lazy darkies in Brazil already? Why would any country want to import lazy, dirty, worthless, illiterate, criminals?
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