Weekly Newsletter 37

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. 37, 30th November 2015

Chancellor alerts that the US activated diplomatic lobbying to undermine the Venezuelan democracy Caracas, November 29, 2015 (MPPRE) .- The Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Delcy RodrĂ­guez rejected the international smear campaign against Venezuela that is taking place during the upcoming parliamentary elections next December 6th.

The statements were made through her Twitter account @DrodriguezVen, where she said that the "international campaign aims to legitimize violent actions of the desperate Venezuelan extreme right and to protect its criminal agents."

process, in the face of attempts to destabilize it from the imperial centers.

"From the land of Bolivar and Chavez we call on movements of solidarity with Venezuela to be alert and in active solidarity."

Delcy RodrĂ­guez reaffirmed her rejection for this new process to stop the Bolivarian Revolution and the constitutional government of President Nicolas Maduro.

"The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela condemns the international campaign from imperial centers seeking to intervene and destabilize Venezuela."

In a second tweet, she underlined the responsibility of the US administration in this campaign to undermine Venezuela's democratic thread. "US have deployed a diplomatic lobbying to ignore the elections in Venezuela and undermine democracy in our country."

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In this context, she added that "right-wing supported by governments at the service of imperial interests is amplified by international media companies."

The Chancellor Rodriguez urged the international community and solidarity movements to express their support and to be attentive to the Venezuelan electoral

Inside this Issue!

Pg1. Chancellor alerts that the us activated diplomatic lobbying to undermine the venezuelan democracy Pg2. Ramirez: expansion of terrorism has exacerbated instability in the sahel region.

Pg3. Rodriguez and malcorra met to know progress of the commission on the essequibo Pg4. Social mission robinson to graduate a million people from 2016-2018 Pg5. Gender equality is now better in rwanda than in the us

Ramirez: Expansion of terrorism has exacerbated instability in the Sahel region.

New York November 25, 2015 (MPPRE).- Rafael Ramirez, Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations, emphasized last Wednesday 25th November during a Security Council meeting on the Sahel strategy that "Venezuela had expressed before this body concern about armed violence, the spread of terrorism and the destruction of the capabilities of the Libyan state resulting from the military intervention in 2011, which has generated instability in the sub region and other parts of the world".

Ramirez said that the civilian population of Libya and Mali are the most affected by political instability and lack of security in the Sahel region of Africa.

“We are concerned that terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and Al Qaeda, among others, have intensified their operations in the Sahel region, bringing as inevitable consequences of

horror that spread, increasing numbers of displaced people and refugees.”

The Venezuelan diplomat noted that due to the complex situation prevailing in Libya and Mali have been prioritized efforts in financing the security sector despite the socioeconomic needs suffered by the people of this region.

“While we recognize the approach made by the UN Humanitarian Response Strategic Plan for 2014-2016 in the Sahel to respond to acute and chronic needs of the region, including capacity building for governments, we are concerned that humanitarian programs in the Sahel continue to be sub funded. In this regard, we call on the international community to remain committed to the efforts to mobilize resources to alleviate the massive humanitarian needs in the Sahel”.

Ramirez expressed that the African continent has historically been subject to colonial ambitions of powerful nations interested in plundering its natural resources, which has cost the suffering of their people. www.mppre.gob.ve

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Rodriguez and Malcorra met to know progress of the Commission on the Essequibo Caracas, November 27, 2015 (MPPRE) .The Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, held last Friday 27th November a meeting with Susana Malcorra, chief of staff of the office of the General Secretariat of the United Nations (UN), "to know the progress of the Commission on the Essequibo."

According to the information provided by the Chancellor of the Republic through his Twitter account, @DrodriguezVen, the meeting was held at the UN headquarters in New York.

During the meeting with the Technical Commission of the United Nations, Rodriguez said that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela maintains its legitimate claim on Guyana

Essequibo based on the 1966 Geneva Agreement, an instrument which aims to solve by peacefully means the claim that have with the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.

Thanked "the Good Offices made by the UN Secretary General at the request of President Nicolas Maduro" to find a solution to the border dispute.

Rodriguez congratulated Susana Malcorra on his appointment as Foreign Minister of Argentina.

"We know of professionalism and sensitivity of Susana Malcorra to work for the unity of the peoples of Our America." www.mppre.gob.ve

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SOCIAL MISSION ROBINSON TO GRADUATE A MILLION PEOPLE FROM 2016-2018

Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro announced on Wednesday that “we will activate plan to guarantee the 6th grade to all the Venezuelan families,” the announcement was made by the president from El Cuartel de la Montaña, located in Caracas.

In this sense, Maduro announced that the inscription plan of the new stage of Robinson education mission II will start next November 28th and 29th in the Bolivar squares nationwide.

“I request to recruit and update a million students to guarantee that all of them obtain their productive 6th grade”, said Maduro from El Cuartel de la Montaña, the resting place for Hugo Chavez, creator of Robinson Mission, since he passed away.

The plan is composed by three student cohort. The first group “composed by 300 thousand students will start on January, they must be graduated at the end of 2017.” ‘‘Second students’ cohort, composed by 400 thousand students will start on April 2016.

Third cohort will be composed by 300 thousand students and must be graduated by 2018,” explained Maduro.

The president also approved the social mission feeding ticket for those who join in the social program. www.hoyvenezuela.info

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Promoting the Unknown Africa

GENDER EQUALITY IS NOW BETTER IN RWANDA THAN IN THE US

When it comes to equality between men and women, the Nordic countries have long been celebrated as hands-down winners. Women in countries like Iceland, Norway, and Sweden are healthier, more educated, and better represented in government and at the top of companies in comparison with men—sometimes with the help of quota systems—than just about anywhere in the world. But this year they’re joined at the top by a new entrant. Rwanda has stormed into the top 10 countries assessed in the World Economic Forum’s annual report on global gender gaps.

The WEF measures the gender gap using a wide range of factors in economics, health, education, and politics, and then allocates a score. Overall, at current rates it would take another 118 years before global gender equality is fully achieved, the WEF said.

Rwanda is an interesting case. It is one of only two countries in the world that have more women in parliament than men (the other is Bolivia). It is also the best-performing country in the world on one major indicator of gender equality: Perceived wage equality for similar work, a qualitative assessment based on surveys of thousands of executives worldwide.

The US, meanwhile, scored much less well than in previous years. Changes in Congress altered the makeup of the country’s legislative branch, meaning fewer women representatives at a national level. The overall outcome was an eight-place drop, to 28th from 20th last year. This left the US far outside the top 20, let alone the top 10.

Rwanda is the only African country in the top 10, but it is joined in the top 20 by Namibia at 16th and South Africa at 17th. As a continent, Africa also has some of the very worst-performing countries in the world (the Middle East is also strongly represented on that end of the spectrum). Chad and Mali are in the bottom 10 and Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Guinea, and several North African countries are are all in the bottom 20: The sub-Saharan African countries stuck near the bottom of the index perform particularly poorly on getting women into education and helping them stay there, and, consequently, on literacy rates. Health and survival rates were also particularly low in these countries. www.qz.com

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