Hoy newspaper reports that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela will make an official visit to Santo Domingo from Friday, 9 March to Sunday, 11 March. Venezuelan ambassador in the DR, Julio Portillo said that on the list of probable projects to be announced during the visit is the construction of a fuel refinery that would refine fuel to be distributed to Caribbean islands. The idea is to take advantage of the geographic location of the DR as center of the Caribbean to reduce the cost of distributing fuel to these islands. The ambassador also announced that President Chavez and President Mejia would match each other in a ball game to be held at the Ministry of Armed Forces play on Sunday, prior to the departure of Chavez. The visit of President Chavez is a result of the proactive international efforts personally enacted by President Mejia in his travels abroad.
