Hti: US increases financial aid to Haiti

WASHINGTON, USA (AP) - The United States is increasing aid to Haiti by about $40 million in an attempt to bring stability to the turbulent, impoverished Caribbean nation.

The additional money can be used for police support, jobs programmes, humanitarian assistance and to strengthen democracy, spokesman Richard Boucher said yesterday.

The money is in addition to $55 million already budgeted for Haiti this year. That figure doesn't include the costs of more than 2,000 troops based in Haiti as part of a multinational force.

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, is trying to organise elections following the armed revolt that forced President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power on February 29.

Another imperialist plot no doubt...