Newsletter49

The weekly

Newsletter VOL. 2: ISSUE. 49, 19th December,2016

Bolivarian Government of Venezuela

Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs office of the Deputy Minister for Africa

Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Kenya concurrent to Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Somalia

Permanent Mission of Venezuela to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat).

The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Republic of Kenya

Wishes You a

And a Happy New Year May 2017 Allow Us To Till Paths Where Peaceful Gestures Blossom.

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Wishing you a merry christmas and a happy 2017

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ALBA in solidarity with President Maduro urges doctors Venezuela against imperial to follow the examples of Chávez onslaughts and Fidel

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With the struggle for independence of Bolivar and Chávez we are overcoming about Africa

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Another achievement in the film industry

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Promo�ng the unknown about Africa

ALBA stands in solidarity with Venezuela against imperial onslaughts

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP), a 12-year-old mechanism, expressed its solidarity with the Venezuelan government and people that have been targeted by imperial attacks.

In a statement signed on Wednesday in Havana, Cuba, and read by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, the regional integration bloc warned that the sole objective of the imperial forces is to defeat the government of President Nicolรกs Maduro and thus, prevent the independence of the Great Homeland.

In that sense, ALBA has decided to support the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution and defend them from the multiple forms of aggression they are subject to by imperialism and its local allies, who seek to defeat the legitimate and constitutional Government of President Nicolรกs Maduro Moros, as well as stifle the historical project: the independence of the Great Homeland, said the document, read in the commemoration of ALBA's twelfth anniversary.

OUR AMERICA WITH MORE UNITY, INTERGRATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

In the activity, also attended by President Maduro and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, the group also expressed its emphatic rejection of all attempts to reverse regional progress in terms of unity, political consensus and integration achieved in recent years, as well as the imposition of projects of neocolonial domination similar to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), whose unfortunate consequences we already know.

It also reaffirmed the rights of Venezuela as a MERCOSUR State Party and its legitimate right to exercise the pro tempore presidency of the organization, faced with the aggression of the new Triple Alliance (Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay), which illegally aims to suspend the Bolivarian nation from the regional bloc, with the excuse that Caracas has not adopted MERCOSUR's membership norms.

On the other hand, ALBA expressed its support for the Venezuelan government's efforts to engage in a dialogue with the opposition, a call promoted by the Government as a way for peace and stability of the country. www.avn.info.ve 2

President Maduro urges community doctors to follow the examples of Chávez and Fidel Salvador Allende Latin American Medical School," he said. At the ceremony he urged these new professionals to take community medicine as a human service and not as a commodity.

The President of the Republic Nicolás Maduro, urged doctors of the Fourth Cohort of Comprehensive Community Medicine of the Latin American Medical School Salvador Allende (ELAM) spanish initials, to follow examples of solidarity of the socialist leaders Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro.

"We have to learn from that example (Chavez and Fidel) and prepare ourselves to grow quantitatively and qualitatively," said the Head of State during the graduation ceremony that took place at the National Pantheon in Caracas and broadcasted by VTV. The President of the Republic emphasized that community doctors should apply humanism to social care, since medicine is the most important service that a human being can give.

"Fidel and Chavéz pave the way because they brought health, attention, medicine in time to millions of humble men and women of the homeland, because through the rural areas of the world run thousands of doctors graduated at the 3

"This is the great battle of humanity, the right to health, the right to medical care and that battle we are winning, you are the army of white coats that is in charge of leading the fight for public health: free, of quality and humanist." He said that in the country approximately 30 thousand doctors have graduated from the training programs between Cuba and Venezuela.

He said that these achievements in health can only be achieved through the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), a mechanism for integration in vocational training, cultural and technological exchange between member countries.

On Friday, 318 new community based doctors graduated, from 24 countries: Angola, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Libya, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua , Nigeria, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Senegal and Sierra Leone, www.avn.info.ve

Delcy Rodriguez: With the struggle for independence of Bolivar and Chávez we are overcoming

Simion Bolívar (Liberator) : 1783 - 1830

Hugo Chávez : 1954 - 2013

Bolívar the head of the diplomacy emphasizes the spirit of independence that still lives in his people that definitely believe in the union.

All the support symbolized in the Bolivarian Revolution is demonstrated by the actions that the Venezuelan people have undertaken in their struggle for independence and their sovereignty. As it was done by the Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs Delcy Rodríguez Gómez in her twitter account @DrodriguezVen .

In another message, she says: "With Neruda we say: I wake up every 100 years when the people wake up.

Bolivar is in the union of the Great Homeland and lives in us, his people."

Finally, in her twitter account she expressed: We follow every step of your glorious pro-independence struggle! With Bolivar and Chavez we are winning.

In a first tweet she published: In Bolívar we recognize our inheritance of Anti-imperialist people and its ideal of Freedom is an eternal guide for the Sovereignty of our Country. At 186 years of death of the Liberator Simón

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Another achievement in the film industry

Venezuelan film El Amparo won the Martín Luther King Award of the Havana Festival (December 2016)

The Venezuelan film El Amparo won the Martín Luther KIng Award from the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, held in Havana, Cuba, said the Minister for Culture, Freddy Ñáñez.

that occurred in the Apurian town known as El Amparo in 1988, where 14 fishermen died in the hands of the security forces of the Puntofijista regime. According to press release from the Ministry of Culture.

Through his Twitter social network , the minister expressed that it is a "well deserved" award.

This production was written

by Karin Valecillos and had the participation of the actors Giovanny García, Vicente Quintero, Rosanna Hernandez, Vicente Peña, Aura Rivas, Jesus Carreño, Tatiana Mabo, Patrizia Fusco and Samantha Castillo.

With this award the Venezuelan film industry has received two awards, following the public award given by the Festival of Biarritz Latin America, held in France last October.

The film by the Venezuelan director, Rober Calzadilla, narrates the events that marked the massacre

This film premiered successfully this year during the San Sebastian International Film Festival, held in Spain. www.avn.info.ve 5

Promoting the unknown about Africa Uganda launches East Africa's largest solar power plant The Republic of Uganda has launched a 19 million U.S. dollar solar power plant In the remote eastern district of Soroti. The project which is the largest in East Africa, is the latest addition to Uganda’s power generation plants, to feed its increasing demand for power as the east African country strives to fast track its development.

The plant runs by Access Power Middle East and Africa and Luxembourg-based Eren Renewable Energy will power over 40,000 rural households in eastern Uganda.

The Managing Director of Project Origination at Access, Vahid Fotuhi, told Xinhua at the launch of the plant that although the station has a nominal capacity of 10MW, it is scalable to 20MW. ‘‘This is a source of inspiration, it shows that there is a possibility of it not only becoming a national but an international player in the area of sustainable energy generation.’’

He said that in future the electricity produced by the plant will be increased to 30MW. He stressed that the construction of the solar plant shows the potential the country has in generating solar energy.

Frustrated by the expensive and not readily available hydro energy in most parts of the country, many Ugandans in rural areas have been investing in their own solar panels to light their homes at night and keep small businesses running.

Villagers are optimistic that the new power plant will improve their livelihood.

Achom Naomi who runs a nursery and primary school near the power plant said once the school accesses power, the educational standards will improve and there will be increased enrollment of pupils.

The Ministry of energy figures show that electricity demand in Uganda is expected to increase constantly at an average annual rate of about 8%. Annually, 50MW of new generation capacity is needed to be added to the national grid in order to avoid supply shortages. www.hiiraan.com

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