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VOL. 1 13TH APRIL 2015 ISSUE. 4
What’s Inside! Special points of interest 1. At the Summit of the Americas, in Panama 2. Commemorative Poster of April 13th 2002 3. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to enjoy Free Eye Surgery after agreement with Venezuela 4. Chavez’s legacy: Transforming the lives of Millions
AT THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, IN PANAMA, VENEZUELA RATIFIES THAT RESPECT FOR SELF-DETERMINATION OF PEOPLES IS THE WAY TO BUILD PEACE
Caracas, April 11th. AVN.The President Nicolas Maduro called American nations to build relationships of respect, cooperation and complementarities, to promote happiness and self-determination and true democracy. "Let’s assume the challenge of building relationships of respect for us to say we are a hemisphere of peace," on Saturday during his speech at the Seventh Summit of the Americas which took place in Panama. He recalled that the time between 1994 and 2005 was a loss period characterized by application of neoliberal policies in most of the nations of the continent that caused poverty and economic stagnation. "It was at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata (Argentina) in 2005, where the attempt to economically neo-colonize our countries was buried and we must see how we have progressed between 2005 and 2015 to reach the summit of Panama" he said. He stressed that strengthening unity and cooperation among the countries of Latin America has allowed the birth and development of mechanisms such as the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). During his speech, President Maduro demanded that the US government cease its policy of interference and therefore respect the principles of justice, international law and self-determination of peoples enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.
The Socialist leader urged President Obama, who had already left the auditorium, to seek 5. Parliamentarians of the world stand political, diplomatic and legal ways to repeal the executive decree against Venezuela. As an example of the democratic will of the Bolivarian government, the Venezuelan leader reaffirmed in solidarity with its call for peaceful dialogue with the US president. Venezuela. "We want peace and we want to talk with the United States to build a civilized relationship that allows us to advance (...). No one should interfere in the affairs of others," he said.
Attorney General: Venezuela has In his speech the President Maduro referred to the history of Venezuela as a living force, which respect for human brought pride to a people who are committed to keep it current. He recalled that precisely this history, rooted in the independence struggle undertaken by the Liberator Simon Bolivar, to achieve rights as a state self-determination and sovereignty of our America, is which currently guide the Bolivarian Republic policy of Venezuela.
EVERY 11 HAS IT’S th APRIL CHÁVEZ RETURNS TO POWER THROUGH CIVIL-MILITARY JOINT April 13, 2002 Commander Chávez returns to power thanks to the joint action of the people and the armed forces that defended the revolution during those dark days on April devoting this day as one of the most heroic in the history of the Venezuelan people Ministry of People’s Bolivarian Government Power for Foreign Affairs Office of The Deputy of Venezuela Minister for Africa
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to enjoy FREE EYE SURGERY after agreement with Venezuela.
Caracas, 08 Abr. AVN.President of Miracle Mission (Misión Milagro), Rosa Virginia Chavez, representing the Venezuelan government signed on Tuesday an agreement to implement this social program in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Through the agreement, residents of the Caribbean island will be able to undergo eye surgery in Venezuela, as has been done with fraternal peoples of Latin American and the Caribbean region.The Miracle Mission was born on July 8, 2004 with a first flight of Venezuelans who traveled to Cuba for free cataract surgery. The initiative was repeated for over a year until, on August 25, 2005, the presidents of Cuba and Venezuela, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, respectively, signed the Sandino Commitment aimed to operate six million people – from Venezuela and abroad – in 10 years. The most common diseases attended through Mission Miracle are pterygium, cataracts, glaucoma and strabismus, according to the program's records. Besides surgery, this program also provides prescription lenses. Mission Miracle's most common dynamic to attract patients is to carry out outdoor journeys nationwide. There, people are examined by ophthalmologists and optometrists, with professional equipment to determine whether a person needs lens or surgery.
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CHAVEZ’S LEGACY:
TRANSFORMING THE LIVES OF MILLIONS 4 March 2015 Analysis by Lee Brown www.telesurtv.net When Hugo Chavez won his first election as Venezuela’s President in 1998, it was against a backdrop of a deep economic and social crisis. Venezuela's economic performance was one of the worst in the world. Its economy per head had been falling for over 25 consecutive years. Living standards had been driven down, and just a few years before Chavez came to office over 40 percent lived in extreme poverty. This despite the vast oil wealth that the country possessed. In the late 1950s Venezuela's income per person was on a par with Britain. That era came crashing down thanks to misrule and, later, the implementation of neoliberal policies by the country's political elite, which failed the Venezuelan people. As a result Venezuela’s income per head was lower in 1998 than it had been in 1960, in real terms. Popular revolts against this decline were brutally repressed. In one incident alone the Caracazo - up to 3,000 died and the constitution was suspened. Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution" — named after Latin American independence hero Simon Bolivar — began to reverse these decades of failure, and after the state oil company was taken under full government control, following a coup attempt and failed oil strike in 20022003, the social improvements accelerated. Poverty reduction and inequality.
Arguably the most impressive
achievements of the era of progressive change that begun with Chavez's election is poverty-reduction programs, which have seen startling results. When Chavez arrived in office in 1998, Venezuelan poverty levels were at 44 percent. The Revolution has reduced this substantially to 27 percent today. Whilst extreme poverty has declined from 20% to 5.4%, according to figures released earlier this week. Inequality has also been tackled. Using the internationally recognized measurement, the Gini coefficient where zero represents perfect equality, inequality fell from 0.48 at the time of Chavez's election to 0.38 today.
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Tackling a humanitarian crisis. Free-market extremism devastated the living standards of the Venezuelan people. One clear example is the widespread hunger that afflicted the oil rich nation. In 1998, 21 percent of the population suffered from undernourishment according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations definition. Today that figure is just 2 percent. Likewise, the number of underweight children at the end of the pre-Chavez was 5.3 percent, a figure that had halved by 2012. Today 95.4 percent of Venezuelans eat three times per day according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Social programs providing subsidized food, free meals, and free school dinners have played a significant role in eradicating hunger and child malnutrition. Access to drinking water has significantly improved too, from 80 percent in 1998 to 96 percent today.
Hugo Chavez holds a baby in a crowd of supporters. Enriching lives through public services. In the 15 years prior to Hugo Chavez, from 1983 to 1998, just 37 percent of the state budget went on social investment. In the 15 years of the since Hugo Chavez initiated the Bolivarian Revolution that figure has shot up to 61 percent. As a result, Venezuela has risen substantially in the UN's Human Development Index. Increased social investment led to huge improvements in education, for example illiteracy was eradicated and Venezuela now has one of the world's highest proportion of people attending university. Healthcare was also a major beneficiary of this investment. Over 80% of Venezuelans have accessed the nation's now-free public health system with some 700 million consultations via the more than 10,000 new free health centers. As a result, infant mortality in revolutionary Venezuela has dropped by a third and this effort is estimated to have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Sharing the economic gains. The reversal of a 25-year economic decline has seen employment opportunities flourish. Unemployment was 14.5 percent in 1998, a figure which, today, has been reduced by two thirds, with over 4 million jobs since 1999. Employment in the formal sector has risen considerably to 60 percent. Whilst in retirement, many more have a dignified life, with the number of people accessing a state pension increasing from 387,000 pre-Chavez, to over 2.5 million today. Backed by the people. All this progressive change has been backed in election after election. Since Hugo Chávez took office in 1999, Venezuela has held 18 national elections with the coalition of supporters of the Bolivarian Revolution winning all but one. This is a greater number of elections than were held during the previous 40 years of Venezuelan democracy, following the fall of the dictatorship in 1958.
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PARLIAMENTARIANS OF THE WORLD STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH VENEZUELA. Caracas, 08 Abr. AVN.The members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union showed their solidarity with Venezuela facing the interventionist aggression by the US government, said Tuesday deputy for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Dario Vivas, during Tuesday's regular session of the National Assembly. "Member states of the Inter-Parliamentary Union reaffirm their commitment to the full observance of international law, peaceful settlement of disputes, principle of non-intervention and respect for human rights," he said in remarks broadcast by state media. Vivas said the Inter-Parliamentary Union, whose members met on March 28 and April 1, advocated the principle of nonintervention and confirmed their rejection of the US actions and measures against Venezuela's sovereignty. In representation of Venezuela. at the meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, were PSUV deputies Gladys Requena, Cristian Zerpa, Adel El Zabayar and head of the delegation, Dario Vivas, while Edgar Zambrano and Jose Ramon Sanchez were responsible for representing the bench of the opposition. "It should be noted that there is solidarity with Venezuela and several delegations from countries represented there asked to have bilateral meetings with Venezuela to express solidarity directly," said Vivas in the session.
ATTORNEY GENERAL: VENEZUELA HAS RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AS A STATE POLICY Venezuela has as a policy of state the respect for human rights, recalled on Wednesday, 8th April, the General Prosecutor of the Republic, Luisa Ortega Diaz.
The General Prosecutor of the Republic, Luisa Ortega Diaz. During her participation in the ‘Obama and his interventionist strategy against Venezuela’ forum, held in the National Assembly, she noted that the US on its pretenses indeed acts violating human rights, “It always appeals to its immense military power to impose by force and arbitrariness. Its high military capability has led to base its geopolitics in the war and not in conflict resolution by legal ways, (which is) how these should be resolved. ” He said that “it is customary for the US not to subject the solution of their differences with another nation to international justice, because they ignore and neglect the public international law. International instruments exist to settle disputes ”. The prosecutor insisted that the international community has suitable organizations to meet with foundation and justice in international law any controversy that is generated between the nations that may endanger peace and security, “However, Barack Obama’s regime ignores them ”. Regarding the decree signed by Barack Obama, which declares Venezuela as a threat to this country, she recalled the long list of invasions, wars, coups and human rights violations by the United States, with which this nation counts. “What is clear is that through this executive order he has decreed an aggression against Venezuela and the target is to control the largest oil reserves in the world, but not only that, but to seize the largest reserves of water and oxygen that It has the planet and that, by chance, are in Latin America”, she said.
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