In Venezuela, after two weeks of anti government protests, more than a dozen people have died - and the government's only hope for things to calm down is that next week's carnival will cool student protestors down with some rum and rumba. But the government of Nicolas Maduro remains very embattled. That's the same Chavissimo government that has extended the Petrocaribe initiative to Latin America and the Caribbean - which is the source of so much recent government spending on infrastructure - including g the ten million committed to City Hall today. So where does this government stand? Today the Prime Minister said it is with Maduro:..
Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"I will say this by how ever narrow a margin Maduro was legitimately elected. We cannot support any notion of the illegal removal of a constitutional government. When I was there in December the announcement was made that the ruling party had just won the vast majority of the municipal elections. I make this point in order to underscore our concern as being two-fold: 1.) the violence and unrest should come and an end and whatever the government needs to try to make that happen the government must do, but 2;) we cannot support any notion that it is right to remove by way of unrest of force or violence a legitimately constitutes government."
The government of Belize is believed to have over 50 million dollars in its Petrocaribe fund.
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