10 Aug 2006

Greening of Latin American cities


Nice to get this in, bit edited as usual, important to point out dangers of US invasion plans for Cuba and indeed Venezuela.


Greening of Latin American cities

Sir: Your piece on Cuba's organic revolution (9 August) brought back happy memories of a visit to Venezuela in January. One of the first sights that greet you in the city centre of Caracas is a huge organic farm, sandwiched between the Hilton Hotel and the motorway. There are thousands of these in the country. Despite being the world's fifth largest oil exporter the Venezuelans are keen to diversify and green their economy because they are well aware that petroleum reserves will eventually be exhausted.

One suspects that George Bush's motives in wishing to remove both the Cuban and Venezuelan governments is based not upon what they get wrong but upon what they get right. The environmental awareness shown by these poor countries puts us to shame.

DR DEREK WALL

WINDSOR

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