Venezuela Housing to
Guatemala
Venezuela will donate 60
houses to Guatemala from
the so-called Petrocasas
(petrohouses) program,
to benefit a group of
families affected by
rains, who are today in
temporal refuges.
Venezuelan ambassador to
Guatemala Jenny
Figueredo told Prensa
Latina that the new
houses will be set up in
the Palin municipality,
from the southern
department of Escuintla.
About 42 houses were
partial or totally
destroyed in May by a
torrent of mud, and
faced with the danger of
a new disaster, the area
was declared
uninhabitable.
Those houses will have
three rooms, two
bathrooms, a
living-room, a kitchen
and a dinning-room.
To build them, the
country will use a new
technology developed by
Venezuelan experts that
turns vinyl polychloride,
a by-product from oil
refining process, into
panels.
Similar projects have
been already carried out
in other regional
countries, like Bolivia,
Cuba and some small
Caribbean countries,
stated the diplomat.
After the entrance of
this Central American
country to the
PETROCARIBE energy
initiative, it is
expected that both
nations enhance even
more ties of
cooperation, the
ambassador stated.
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