Haiti–Venezuela relations
{'<entity_0>': 'Haiti–Venezuela relations', '<entity_1>': 'Venezuela', '<entity_2>': 'Haiti'}
[['Haiti–Venezuela relations', 'country', 'Haiti'], ['Haiti–Venezuela relations', 'country', 'Venezuela']]
<entity_0> are relations between <entity_2> and <entity_1>. <entity_1> has an embassy in Port-au-Prince, and <entity_2> has an embassy in Caracas. For <entity_2>, relations with <entity_1>, along with other Latin American nations, was poor for nearly two-hundred years. During the administration of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, <entity_1> utilized "oil diplomacy" to increase influence in the region, with <entity_2> supporting Venezuelan foreign policy after receiving petroleum benefits. Once the crisis in <entity_1> began to affect <entity_1>'s ability to continue petroleum programs, <entity_2> faced economic and energy difficulties. After facing these difficulties, <entity_2> withdrew its support from Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, Chávez's handpicked successor, choosing to recognize Juan Guaidó as president of <entity_1> during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis. When Bolívar fled the Second Republic of <entity_1> following its fall in 1815, he became close to Alexandre Pétion, the first president of <entity_2>, and received aid. <entity_1> broke off diplomatic relations with <entity_2> (along with a number of other Latin American countries) in 1963, applying Rómulo Betancourt's "Betancourt doctrine" of avoiding relationships with dictatorships due to the actions of Haitian President François Duvalier. After joining Petrocaribe, <entity_2> followed <entity_1>'s opinion in foreign policy assemblies–often opposing United States policies–and began to rely on <entity_1>'s cheap petroleum prices for economic development. Following the 2010 <entity_2> earthquake, <entity_1> made substantial contributions to the humanitarian response to the earthquake, pledging $1.3bn in aid in addition to cancelling $395m in Petrocaribe debt. In December 2011 Haitian President Michel Martelly said that "The cooperation with <entity_1> is the most important in <entity_2> right now in terms of impact, direct impact." <entity_2> became a "permanent observer" of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) in February 2012, the regional group launched and led by <entity_1>. As the crisis in <entity_1> intensified under Chávez's successor Nicolás Maduro, <entity_1> began to stop shipping petroleum products to <entity_2>.
['bilateral relation']