President Michel Martelly made statements that will surely alienate Haitis largest and only direct supporters, Cuba, which for decades has led in training and producing Haitian doctors, and Venezuela, which has more than doubled the Haitian national budget through its Petrocaribe program. During Gouvenman An Lakay Ou, a publicly-funded program highly criticized for wastefulness, ineffectiveness and its partisan campaign-like nature, Martelly told a crowd of a few hundred that communists should not be elected into office before vaguely lending his support for Prime Minister Laurent Lamothes candidacy for presidency. [AUDIO]
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:34:42 +0000
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