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Published: Tuesday, March 16, 2004<br>
Bylined to: <a href="mailto:patrick@vheadline.com">Patrick J.
O'Donoghue</a> <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Venezuela opens doors
to President Jean Bertrand Aristide and criticizes Organization of
American States (OAS)</font><font face="georgia" size=3> <br><br>
President Hugo Chavez Frias says Venezuela will open its doors to receive
deposed Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide and has called on the
Organization of American States (OAS) to be more pro-active about
the kidnapping of a President elected by the People. <br><br>
Speaking at the closure of an Andean Region Health Ministers meeting in
Puerto Ordaz, has raised what he calls the humanitarian issue of a
president deposed by US troops ... "I'm sure that more could be done
with the effort of many countries." <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>Venezuela has already donated $100
million to health projects through Central and South America and recently
has sent oil supplies, along with medicines, food and water to
Haiti to keep the hospitals functioning. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>President Chavez Frias' offer to
President Aristide comes at the critical moment, as Aristide touches down
in Jamaica for a visit and frenzied US State Department mandarins
implement measures to curtail possibilities of Aristide returning to
power in Haiti or dictating policy to followers from a Caribbean base.
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Analysts suggest that Caribbean Economic Community (Caricom) leaders hold
the key to pushing the Aristide issue and this latest offer from
President Chavez Frias may force their hand to lobby the OAS, at
least to review the case in the light of OAS Democratic Charter, which
the Venezuelan opposition and the USA government has waved in front of
President Chavez Frias since the political conflict in Venezuela
escalated.<br><br>
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