Calderon Pledges $10.5 Million to Haiti Associated Press
go to original April 14, 2012

People await the arrival of Mexico’s president Felipe Calderon at the Toussaint L’Overture International Airport in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. During his official one-day visit the Mexican leader was scheduled to tour a hospital in the western part of Haiti that his country is renovating for U$20 million. (AP)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon says his country plans to spend US$5.5 million in Haiti to support an orphanage, a health clinic and a trade school, and another US$5 million to help rebuild a supply center and 15 public markets.

Calder made the announcement yesterday under a tent outside Haiti’s National Palace, which is still in ruins two years after Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

It is the Mexican leader’s first trip to Haiti. It was also the first time a sitting president in Mexico has visited the Caribbean nation.

The United Nations Office of the Special Envoy for Haiti says Mexico pledged US$8 million toward rebuilding efforts after the quake. A little more than US$3 million have been released so far.

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