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Latin American leaders to meet on Haiti

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez says that foreign ministers from an alliance of similar-minded Latin American countries will meet to discuss aid to Haiti.

“Tomorrow (Sunday) we will have the foreign ministers here (Caracas) to discuss Haiti and solidarity cooperation… for this people destroyed by capitalism and now by the tragedy of the earthquake,” Chavez said on Saturday, AFP reported.

The countries are part of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) regional grouping, an organization started by Chavez and Cuba’s former president Fidel Castro.

Bolivia and Nicaragua are also members of ALBA.

Venezuela and Bolivia have criticized the United States for its response to the January 12 quake that devastated Haiti’s capital, accusing US forces of occupying the country rather than helping its people.

The United States which has dispatched nearly 20,000 troops to the Caribbean island after the earthquake has denied the charge.

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