These are people who might not otherwise get thebasic health care they need to realize a better tomorrow

The Comfort was also going to partner with the Departmentof Health and Human Services on a new initiative to provideoral care to the region's poor. Dentists and hygienists willfill cavities and treat infections and provide treatment forthe young children.At the same time, military medicalteams Rosetta Stone outlet will be operating inland to help bring treatment andcare to other communities. These teams do everything fromvaccinating people against disease to building new medicalclinics. The United States military is a symbol of strengthfor this nation. There's also a symbol of the greatcompassion of the American people and our desire to helpthose in our neighborhood who need help. With thedeployment of the Comfort and the work of the military teamswe're making it absolutely clear to people that we care. Onegood example is an area of Nicaragua. Santa Teresa is arural area where 250 U.S. airmen, soldiers and Marines arenow working with 30 members of the Nicaraguan army to builda medical clinic. Any families in the area live at homesbuilt of scrap wood with dirt floors and doorless entryways.For most of them, a doctor is too far away, or tooexpensive. One man in Santa Teresa says, "The impact of thisclinic is going to be tremendous." I want you to hear thewords of a fellow from Nicaragua. He said, "We're so gladyou're here. People around here are noticing that the UnitedStates is doing something for them." And my message to theman is, we're proud to do so, and we do so because webelieve in peace and the dignity of every human being on theface of the Earth. (Applause.) Helping people reach theirpotential requires a commitment to improving housing. Astrong housing industry can be an Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 engine of economic growthand social stability and poverty reduction. Most LatinAmerican capitals' high prices and high interest rates makegood housing hard to afford. So the United States islaunching a new effort to help build a market for affordablehousing. Through the Overseas Private InvestmentCorporation, we've provided more than $100 million that isbeing used to help underwrite mortgages to working familiesin Mexico and Brazil and Chile and the countries of CentralAmerica. Now we're going to provide another $385 million toexpand these programs and help put the dream of homeownership within the reach of thousands of more people inour neighborhood.On these three vital social issues --education and health care and housing -- we're making adifference across the Americas. You see, by investing inprograms and empower people, we will help the workingfamilies of our hemisphere build a more hopeful future forthemselves.Finally, social justice requires economiesthat make it possible for workers to provide for theirfamilies and to rise in society. For too long and in toomany places, opportunity in Latin America has beendetermined by the accident of birth rather than by theapplication of talents and initiative. In his many writings,Pope John Paul II spoke eloquently about creating systemsthat respect the dignity of work and the right to privateinitiative. Latin America needs capitalism for thecampesino, a true capitalism that allows people who startfrom nothing to rise as far as their skills and their hardwork can take them. So the United States is helping thesenations build growing economies that are open to the world,economies that will provide opportunity to their people.One of the most important ways is by helping to relievethe burden of debt. In the past, many Rosetta Stone English nations in this regionpiled up debt that they simply cannot repay. Every yeartheir governments have to spend huge amounts of money justto make interest payments on the debt. So under myadministration, we worked with the Group of 8 industrializednations to reduce the debt of Latin America and Caribbeannations by $4.8 billion.