Weekly Newsletter 32

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 (ONU Habitat).

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ISSUE. 32, 26th October 2015

For seven decades, Palestinians have been submitted to violence.

The statements were given in an open debate about the Israeli-Palestinian issue where the head of Venezuelan diplomacy lamented that after 70 years, Security Council hasn’t found a solution to this problem yet.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez, exposed before the United Nations Security Council, the Venezuelan Government’s preoccupation regarding the violence deployed

by Israeli army against the Palestinian people.

“The recent wave of violence that hits the occupied territories since the beginning of October has left 53 mortal victims and over a thousand injured (…) this situation cannot be interpreted in isolation, it is rather a consequence of an extended illegal occupation of over 70 years that has systematically denied the rights of the Palestinian people to enjoy from self-determination as a free and independent Homeland,” Rodriguez said.

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“The veto on Palestine by the Security Council is something to be embarrassed of.

Terror and impunity. We hope that the veto by one of the members of this Security Council do not turn into a weapon against the Palestinian people.” Rodríguez emphasized.

“President Vladimir Putin has given a historical lesson in the fight against terrorism”, Rodriguez said, showing support to the actions taken by the Russians in Syria.

The debate takes place after UN’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited Ramala and Jerusalem last Tuesday. There, Ban Ki-moon asked President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do as much as possible to reduce tensions. www.hoyvenezuela.info

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President Maduro: Fortress of CELAC is to have achieved the path of ehanced unity in diversity.

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In 11 years Venezuela has invested more than $ 140 billion on food policies

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Fortress of CELAC is to have achieved the path of ehanced unity in diversity.

This Friday at the Miraflores Palace the Second Ministerial Meeting on Social Development to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty of the Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was held.

The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro thanked all representatives of governments and organizations and expressed his happiness for Venezuela being the host of this meeting of CELAC. "I am very happy because we are hosting a work meeting for the plans of Latin America and the Caribbean in all the area of social development."

Also, the Venezuelan leader stressed that it was not easy to completely eradicate social inequality in the Latin American and the Caribbean continent, "we know that we are transiting a new way of old hopes and dreams," he insisted.

"In the diversity of ideas, models and proposals, the great strength of CELAC, is that we have achieved is the way of the union again boosted not only by the cultural diversity of our Latin America and the Caribbean but ideological and political diversity that has allowed meeting points, the most important of all in the founding of CELAC, which is allowing us to build a common agenda," highlighted the Head of State.

That program, which includes sustainable development goals recently set by United Nations, he said, will facilitate creation of the conditions for stability and sustainability in the process of coordination of national policies and those common to CELAC. Combating inequality In his speech, the Venezuelan leader stressed the importance of building a common agenda with the countries of CELAC, to fight against poverty and inequality.

"In the struggle for social happiness, as it was called by the Liberator Simon Bolivar in the Angostura's speech on February 15th, 1819. Social security and social happiness are part of a doctrine which has enabled us to articulate plans and actions, we call them social missions."

Likewise he says "inequality was the cause that provoked to the immense poverty that characterized our continent during the twentieth century and part of the twenty first century".

In this context, the revolutionary leader stressed setting common targets to achieve action plans in different social areas.

Venezuela Free of illiteracy The worker President, Nicolas Maduro, announced that on the coming October 28th Venezuela will celebrate 10 years of the recognition by UNESCO as a territory free of illiteracy thanks to the Cuban program , I Can. Integrative action In continuity with the Second Ministerial Meeting on Social Development of CELAC, the Venezuelan leader asked government groups and agencies present to work towards a common and inclusive work agenda.

"Would that for the Summit to be held in Ecuador in 2016, a common agenda of specific presidential character for the most important issues in health, social law is approved, among others."

Likewise, he highlighted that integration for social development is very important "as dreamed our liberators."

Finally, President Maduro ended his speech stating that "Only united will we achieve happiness, will we transit the XXI century territory of human hope, Latin America and the Caribbean united, peace territory".

(MPPRE) Caracas, October 23, 2015.

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In 11 years Venezuela has invested more than $ 140 billion on food policies For 11 years, since 2004 Venezuela has invested more than 140 billion dollars in food policies to improve the quality of life of the people, stressed Friday the vice president for Social Development, Gladys Requena, at the opening of the Second Ministerial Meeting on Social Development to Eradicate Poverty of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

"With regard to food, the Bolivarian Government has invested the amount of 142 billion dollars within the last 11 years, to ensure the full enjoyment of the right to food of all the Venezuela people," stressed Requena.

She also mentioned the recognitions that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has granted to Venezuela for meeting the goal of eradicating hunger.

"Food policy has improved in an amazing way for all people to enjoy food as a right, through the implementation of the Food Mission, a universal program of supply, distribution and sale of food created in 2003 to ensure this right to the entire population, especially the most vulnerable," said Requena at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry in Caracas, where the meeting took place.

The vice president said the Food Mission has served more than 22 million people in extreme poverty, whose rate reached 12.2% in 2004 and decreased to 5.4% in 2014.

As part of food policies, she also highlighted the social program of food centers, which oer a varied and balanced lunch daily. The deployment of this service has allowed to reduce the dependence of citizens up to 67%.

"Their poor conditions have been progressively improved, given that the fewer food centers, the less demand in the sense of meeting the needs of our poorest people, (which is why) there has been greater access, right to food has become more universalized in our country and poverty has reduced progressively," she said.

AVN, Caracas, October 23, 2015.

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The film Vamos chronicles the struggle of Melamed and Maiyo The film Vamos, which opened yesterday in cinemas in Venezuela, is a touching story that tells how dreams can be achieved by setting goals, overcoming obstacles and seeing difficulties as opportunities.

Maria Alejandra Guerrero-Rocca, one of the director and producer of the documentary, said in a telephone interview with the Venezuelan News Agency that this film tells two parallel stories of the Venezuelan Maickel Melamed and the Kenyan Shadrack Maiyo.

The production connects the viewer with another person who had some kind of special status, "and that's how we came up with the Kenyan Shadrack Maiyo -through Venezuelan athlete Marvin Blanco who was training in Kenya-in view of the ability of Kenyan athletes in marathons," said the producer.

In the filming of the documentary, Melamed’s physical preparation was recorded in Caracas during four weeks before the marathon and it was done in parallel with that of Maiyo in Kenya.

The feature film portrays the obstacles faced by the Venezuelan athlete Melamed, with motor disabilities, to run his first marathon in 2011 in New York, USA; as well as show the experiences of Maiyo, who lives in a remote village in Kenya, Africa, in unfavorable socio economic conditions and also made efforts to cross the finish line in the race.

"We hope these stories move the viewer," which through the camera can closely follow the athletes in their preparation, Guerrero, who said that Vamos will be projected in theaters in Los Teques (Miranda) and Caracas; Valencia (Carabobo), Maracaibo (Zulia); Turmero and Maracay (Aragua).

Genesis of the Project Vamos is a production of La Mulera Films, in collaboration with hekura Films and the National Center of Cinematography-CNAC, directed by Braulio Rodriguez, adapted and produced by Maria Alejandra Guerrero-Rocca and co-produced

by Chepita Gomez. It was shot in Venezuela, Kenya and the United States.

Guerrero narrates that the dream of the film began in 2009, when Melamed was presented with the opportunity to participate in the race to New York as his first marathon, "and after two failed attempts it is in 2011 when the organization accepts and we decided to film his effort."

Through eight cameras the entire marathon was captured, of the 42 kilometers, in which the Venezuelan achieved his objective but fought for it with a time of 15 hours 22 minutes and 3 seconds.

Participation in Festivals In 2013, Vamos participated in the documentary training lab DocuLab Guadalajara.5 as part of the activities of the 28th edition of the International Film Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Guerrero said that by 2016 they plan to promote feature films at international documentary festivals and other foreign events as well as aspire to that the production gets to foreign television and these true stories be known by the public. www.hoyvenezuela.info

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