Protestors burn barricades, demand answers on oil fund scandal Demonstrators, joined by other activists and opposition party members, march past burning barricades and through smoke-filled streets during a protest in Port-au-Prince demanding accountability from politicians for allegedly squandering billions of dollars in proceeds from Venezuela’s discounted PetroCaribe oil program. Investigations by the Haitian Senate in 2016 and 2017 concluded that nearly $2 billion from a Venezuelan aid program called Petrocaribe were misused. Through Petrocaribe, Venezuela for years supplied Haiti and other Caribbean and Central American countries with oil at cut-rate prices and on easy credit terms. IMAGES