Sean Penn in Bolivia on humanitarian mission for Haiti
Posted February 16, 2012 8:18 am.
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Actor Sean Penn arrived in La Paz, Bolivia Wednesday on a humanitarian aid mission for Haiti.
President Evo Morales and Penn held a joint news conference to inform members of the media as to what the visit was all about.
“President Morales has received us,” said Penn. “We briefly chatted before beginning a discussion about what ways new collaborations might be had with Haiti and Bolivia and we hope to have this be the beginning of many to follow.”
“In the last meeting of the presidents of the ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas) we decided that our ministers are going to have a meeting, a meeting in Haiti, to plan and organize how to start the work again with the Haitian people,” said President Morales.
The Hollywood actor, screenwriter and director is known for his political activism and stopped in the South American country as part of a tour to discuss his work in Haiti where he founded the J/P Haitian Relief Organization in response to the January 2010 earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation.
