Latin American countries and Spain are continuing their relief efforts for quake-stricken Haiti.

The Mexican Red Cross (CRM) has collected more than 4,000 tons of humanitarian aid for Haiti, CRM Vice President Francisco Ramirez said Friday.

Ramirez said the aid included bottled water, toilet paper, canned food, cereals, cookies, beans, rice, pasta and tooth brushes. The CRM will also send different kinds of medicines.

In addition, the CRM has collected donated funds worth 15 million pesos (US$1.1 million).

Ramirez estimated that the amount would rise to 1.5 million dollars in the coming days.

Meanwhile, Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday arrived at the port of Veracruz to supervise the departure of a vessel loaded with 1,720 tons of humanitarian aid for Haiti.

Mexico has sent seven planes and one vessel with aid, including rescuers, sniffer dogs, medical staff and journalists, Secretary of Navy Mariano Francisco Saynez said.

Two military vessels from Venezuela arrived Friday in Barahona, southwest of the Dominican Republic, loaded with tons of food, medicine, machinery and 281 people to assist the quake victims.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday announced an extraordinary meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA) to discuss Washington's unnecessarily heavy military presence in Haiti.

But the United States said its troops in Haiti were aimed to keep the safety of Haitian citizens and international rescue and aid workers.

Spain, which has traditional links with Latin America, will send 450 military personnel, 23 Civil Guard members and a group of security forces to provide protection for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, the government said.

The military personnel include a 37-member search and rescue unit, a medical unit and a group of engineers with machinery needed to clear rubble, dig wells and distribute fresh water.

The Dominican Republic, which neighbors Haiti by land, announced Friday that it would repatriate Haitian survivors that were being attended in its hospitals.

Some of the 15,000 injured Haitians will be sent to a recuperation camp in Haiti across the border, with a capacity to host 3,000 people, Dominican Republic's Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomes said.

Last week's 7.3-magnitude earthquake has killed more than 110,000 people, the Haitian Interior Ministry said Friday.

(Xinhua News Agency January 23, 2010)