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[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela Sends First Aid Airplane to Haiti

Caracas, January 13.- Venezuela sent the first airplane with humanitarian aid to Haiti on Wednesday. The help consists on doctors, medicines, water, search and rescue experts and damage assessment specialists.

The Internal Affairs and Justice Minister Tareck el Aissami said that the Bolivarian National Armed Force's Hercules C-130 also brings tools to help in case of collapsed structures and confined areas.

El Aissami stated that there will arrive other similar cargos sent by the president Hugo Chavez to a country that received from the Liberator Simon Bolivar in its struggles for independence 200 years ago.

The airplane carries 19 doctor, 10 firemen and rescue specialists, 17 civil protection experts and three Simon Bolivar International Brigade's members to reconnoitre affected areas and evaluate damages.

More:
http://www.cadenagramonte.cubaweb.cu/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1406:venezuela-sends-first-aid-airplane-to-haiti&catid=3:world&Itemid=14

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Venezuela sends more humanitarian aid to Haiti
Source: Xinhua News Agency

Date: 18 Jan 2010

CARACAS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Venezuelan government increased its humanitarian aid to quake-ravaged Haiti on Monday, sending 616 tons of food, medicines and drinking water in two shiploads, along with medical and rescue staff.

Venezuela on Sunday sent to Haiti a planeload of food, medicine and drinking water.

In Monday's humanitarian aid, there are 116 tons of special machinery for Haiti's reconstruction.

Some 120 rescue workers aboard the two ships will join the Mexican team of 79 rescuers who had arrived earlier.

More:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SNAA-7ZU88A

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Tuesday
January 19,2010

Venezuela Sends Haiti 5,400 Tons of Food

CARACAS – Venezuela was sending 5,400 tons of food to Haiti by sea on Monday along with a team of 120 emergency specialists and 116 tons of heavy machinery, the interior minister said.

Tarek El Aissami, aboard one of the navy vessels taking part in the operation, told the press that these shipments will complement those being sent by air.

El Aissami said that the ships – two troop transports and two freighters – would set sail for Haiti at nightfall.

He also said that this Monday the two Ilushin Il-76 transport planes, which Russia sent to guarantee the sustained sending of aid, would again take off from Venezuela with 80 tons of basic necessities as they did on Sunday.

More:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=350665&CategoryId=10717

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Thanks for mentioning the story was gone, so I could post new ones.