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LATIN AMERICA
NEWS
| Sunday
19
December 2010 |
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The
World
with
Venezuela,
Says FM
Maduro
CARACAS
-
International
solidarity
reached
Venezuela
immediately
as soon
as the
reports
on the
economic
damages
and over
130,000
victims
circled
the
world,
said
Foreign
Minister
Nicolas
Maduro.
In an
interview
for
Prensa
Latina,
Venezuela's
top
diplomat
first
praised
the
solidarity
from
member
countries
of the
Bolivarian
Alliance
for the
Peoples
of Our
America
(ALBA).
"Thousands
of Cuban
medical
workers
multiplied
their
efforts
in every
corner
of
Venezuela,
helping
the
poorest
and
there is
a Cuban
doctor
working
in every
shelter,"
stressed
Maduro.
He
described
as
awesome
the
consignments
of
relief
supplies
coming
from
Ecuador,
Bolivia,
Nicaragua,
as well
as from
Caribbean
Islands
like St.
Vincent
and the
Grenadines,
Antigua
and
Barbuda
and
Dominica,
"all
sister
countries
within
ALBA"
that
even
collected
donations
that
already
reached
our
people
at the
shelters.
FM
Maduro
also
mentioned
contributions
from
Argentina,
Brazil,
Paraguay,
Uruguay,
Spain,
Portugal,
Mexico,
Syria,
Iran,
Belarus,
Russia,
"the
world
with
Venezuela,"
he said.
"At such
difficult
times,
when we
are to
deal
with
these
weather
adversities
with
courage,
it is
time to
show the
true
sisterhood
we have
been
weaving
like a
fishing
net.
He said
that
President
Hugo
Chavez
has
helped
build a
large
international
alliance
for a
new
world
that we
can feel
in the
love and
solidarity
reaching
the
people
of
Venezuela
from
around
the
world.
"Storm
rain
hitting
40
percent
of the
national
territory
over the
past
weeks
killed
30
people
as
rivers
and dams
overflowed
drenching
vast
zones,
isolating
dozens
of
communities
and
sweeping
away
bridges
and
roads,
not to
mention
the
billions-worth
of
damages
to
agriculture.
Food,
water,
blankets,
matresses,
medications,
tents
and
child
clothing
were
among
the aid
flown to
the
Venezuelans
who lost
everything
and are
staying
in 972
state-run
shelters.
The
victims
now
benefit
from
medical
assistance,
including
odontology,
and
recreation,
to help
ease
their
distress.
Housing
is a top
priority
for
President
Chavez,
who
assured
the
victims
that
they
will
head
from the
shelters
to their
homes
now
under
construction
as part
of an
ambitious
project
to meet
the
national
deficit
-over
two
million
houses-
accumulated
through
many
decades.
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