Vice President and Cardinal meet to discuss poverty programs

Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez visited Vice President Margarita Cedeno on Monday 1 October to discuss the social programs run by her office aimed at improving living conditions for families in extreme poverty.

Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez expressed his interest in working closely with the Vice President in her office's Progress with Solidarity Program. The Medina administration says that one of its objectives is to take 400,000 families out of extreme poverty, increase the middle class to 1,500,000 families and to generate 400,000 new jobs.

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