Laurent Lamothe who attended the 12th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), which was held in Guayaquil on 29 and 30 July 2013 gave an update on the issues that were addressed for Haiti.

"[...] We obtained very satisfactory results for Haiti, the Group has decided to strengthen its cooperation, strengthen the special plan, which had been done for Haiti in the field of public health and education, particularly within the tripartite literacy program with Cuba [more than 250,000 Haitians were literate through this program] [...] We work with them to expand the program, an evaluation mission will visit Haiti to determine progress, but overall we see a very positive impact in this South-South cooperation [...] when we talk about Venezuela with Petrocaribe program, but also direct assistance to the Government, they will build more than 400 homes in northern Port-au-Prince and invest in the civil register, and are already investing in the Haitian culture, there is a orchestra of youth that is funded by Venezuela [...] in the field of health there are 20 hospitals that were promised, 13 have already been built, the last to be opened is the Néstor Kirchner Hospital in Corail.

[...] For Ecuador it is the road to Petite Rivière, the bridge, there are various infrastructure projects being carried out by the Ecuadorian cooperation [...]

[...] For Cuba, there are 543 Cuban doctors operating in Haiti, there is the literacy program, the program of technical assistance in the field of environment, infrastructure, repair of tractors , bus. Cubans are on the ground and work with us, for buses Dignité and for the vehicle fleet of course.

All that to say that the cooperation South-South Latino South-South cooperation Latin American works, works and works well, we appreciate it to its true value, we values it ​​[...]

So what we did it is the valuation of the South-South Assistance and of course, we also work to strengthen the North-South Assistance with traditional donors. With the complementarity of the two, Haiti will certainly be in a much better position tomorrow than we are today."

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9115-haiti-politic-laurent-lamothe-in-ecuador.html

S/ HaitiLibre