Venezuela to Give
US$14.2 Million for
Emergency in Nicaragua
The Venezuelan
government will give
14.2 million dollars to
help to fix the damages
caused by the recent
meteorological phenomena
in Nicaragua, as told by
President Daniel Ortega.
The Nicaraguan leader
made the announcement
during his intervention
in the plenary of the
National Assembly
Tuesday to request a
budget reform that
allows to assign more
funds to repair roads
damaged by the rains.
Venezuela already
approved a help to
Nicaragua for 14.2
million dollars to face
this emergency, Ortega
expressed and said that
the good news was told
to him on the phone by
Venezuelan Foreign
Minister Nicolás Maduro.
The funds, he added,
will be used to
guarantee roofs of zinc
to 10,000 houses and to
buy foods and other
materials for those
affected by the rains of
the last weeks.
Ortega also confirmed
that a ship with
Venezuelan fuel will
arrive in Puerto Cabezas,
in the Caribbean north
shore of Nicaragua in
the next days to supply
that area which was
desolated by Hurricane
Felix on September 4.
The remnant of the help
that Caracas will give
Nicaragua was determined
by a technical mission
of the South American
country that arrived in
Managua on October 19 to
evaluate the damages
caused by the rains in
the area of the Pacific.
The Venezuelan
cooperation is coming in
the right moment; Ortega
assured, in allusion to
the emergency that
Nicaragua lives as a
result of Felix's impact
in the Atlantic, the
floods in the Pacific
and of a leptospirosis
sprout in the west.
According to
calculations, the three
phenomena almost caused
in total 250 dead
people, more than
215,000 damaged and
material damages for
about 400 million
dollars. |
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