René Preval on
working visit to Cuba
THE president-elect of Haiti, René Préval,
initiated a working visit to Cuba this April 12, in
response to an invitation from President Fidel
Castro.
Préval traveled with a delegation composed of
various members of his future government and other
Haitian figures, according to an official note
published in Granma daily at the close of
this edition.
His visit coincides with the arrival of a group
of Haitian scholarship students, as well as patients
from that country who are to receive medical
attention in Haiti under Operation Miracle, a Cuban-Venezuelan
project that offers free ophthalmological care to
poor patients in the Third World.
According to the information, Préval and his
delegation are to be received by President Fidel
Castro and have a full agenda, including visits to
places of scientific and social interest, as well as
talks with other national authorities.
Préval, former president of Haiti (1996-2001) and
in 1991 former prime minister in the government of
Jean Bertrand Aristide, won the presidential
elections on February 7 with an absolute majority
that gave him the presidency in the first round.
