Clinton and Penn are asking for more help

The former US President Bill Clinton, Al actor Sean Penn and Al Spanish chef José Andrés yesterday encouraged the international community to invest in Haiti, during a forum on the subject in Puerto Principe.

Nearly a thousand international investors participated between yesterday and today in the Forum organized by the Clinton Foundation and the Inter-American Bank of development (IDB), which seeks to attract foreign investment to the Caribbean country struggling to recover from the devastating earthquake in 2010.

"Haiti has challenges and opportunities." "We are a Government that wants to work with the private sector to rebuild Haiti and create jobs," said in opening remarks the Haitian President, Michel Martelly.

During the first matches in the morning, signed an agreement of collaboration between the National Federation of coffee growers of Colombia and the Haitian Government for the supply of coffee producers u000aColombians and the exchange of training technique.

The godfather of the Act
the former US President Bill Clinton (1993-2001), Envoy of United Nations for Haiti, sponsored the event and stressed the "enormous potential" of the agro-industrial sector of the country to emphasize the quality of local such as mango, coffee or cocoa products.

"This Forum stressed the importance of the investment of the private sector in Haiti and show the world that Haiti is once again open for business," added Clinton, who chairs the Advisory Council for the economic growth of Haiti.

Previously, the Marriott hotel chain announced the construction of a hotel in Port au Prince, with an estimated $ 45 million investment, and the IDB opened an important restored stretch of the highway linking the capital with the regions of the North of the country.

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