Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has convened a meeting of Petrocaribe for next weekend (6-7 May) where he will host 16 heads of state attending the Petrocaribe Summit. El Caribe newspaper says that the summit will be held on the island of Margarita off the coast of Venezuela. The Petrocaribe partners are Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, St. Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Suriname and Venezuela. There is opposition to the Petrocaribe Agreement within Venezuela due to the pressing economic crisis inherited from the Hugo Chavez government. Petrocaribe, the brainchild of late President Hugo Chavez, sells petroleum and fuels to partner countries under very favorable conditions.
President Danilo Medina is scheduled to be in Costa Rica this Friday for the Central American System of Integration (Sica) Summit.