Brazil to send more troops to Haiti

Associated Press

 

PORT-AU-PRINCE — 

Brazil says it will send additional troops to Haiti to help build roads and stabilize the impoverished country. 

Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim says 100 soldiers from the engineering division will arrive in the Caribbean country soon. He could not specify when.

Brazil experts will also improve water resources and help Haitian farmers produce new vegetable varieties, he says. Deadly riots in April over rising food prices left seven dead and cost the prime minister his job.

Jobim arrived Wednesday with President Luíz Inacio Lula da Silva and other ministers for a one-day visit. They met with President René Préval and some of the 1,200 Brazilian troops stationed there.

The troops are part of a 9,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force.

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