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...PetroCaribe, set up in 2005 by then-Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, allowed Caribbean nations to buy Venezuelan oil on favourable terms....
...“It was clear we had a problem when Chávez fell ill,” says René Jean-Jumeau, Haiti’s former secretary of state for energy, given that 75 per cent of Haiti’s energy generation comes from oil....
...Most purchase in secure, gated developments such as Sharyland Plantation near the hamlet of Mission, says local agent Rene Galvan of RGV Realty....
...Mr Castro’s closest ally, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, was absent due to Sunday’s presidential election, but dedicated his hoped-for victory to Mr Castro....
...The Bolivian re-election proposal was officially presented on Friday by René Navarro, a MAS representative at the constituent assembly....
...As Ecuadoreans go to the polls on Sunday, the frontrunner in the race to be president is Rafael Correa, a radical nationalist allied to Hugo Chávez, the anti-American president of Venezuela....
...“Politically, this is a very astute move,” said José Mirtenbaum of Gabriel Rene Moreno university in Santa Cruz....
...“Evo is basically a Keynesian social democrat with nationalist sympathies,” says José Mirtenbaum of the Gabriel René Moreno university in Santa Cruz....
...Haiti's polls back in February were tumultuous, but the country now has a president with a popular mandate, René Préval , and is more stable than it was a year ago....
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