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Permanent Mission of Venezuela to the United Nations Environment programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat).
Bulletin Vol 4, Issue 3, Oct - Dec, 2016
SPONSOR A SCHOOL IN AFRICA (KENYA) PROGRAMME - 2016
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CONTENTS CommuniquĂŠ ..........................................................Pg 4 Opinion article: Fidel also lives in Africa ..............Pg 5 Fidel at the United Nations in 1979........................Pg 6 Opinion: Venezuela at the helm of NAM ..............Pg7 2nd NAM film festival ............................................pg9 KVFSC: Congratulatory note to the Government and people of Venezuela .............................................Pg10 2nd NAM seminar at the African Union ..............Pg 12 Venezuela and Africa:before and after Hugo ChĂĄvez ...............................Pg13 Sponsor a school in Africa (Kenya) programme ..Pg 16 DIRECTOR: Professor Jhony Balza Arismendi, Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Republic of Kenya Concurrent to Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Somalia and Permanent Representative to UNEP and UN - Habitat. COLLABORATORS Daniel Mwangi Antony Onyango CONTACT INFORMATION: UN Crescent, Opposite Diplomatic Police, Gigiri, Nairobi Kenya P. O. Box 2437- 00621, Tel: (+254 - 20) 712 06 . 48 / 712 06 . 49 email: bulletinvenekenia@gmail.com Website: kenia.embajada.gob.ve Twitter: @EmbassyVenezK DESIGN / PRINTING: Milka Aweyo smilingmilesventures@gmail.com Published by the Venezuelan Embassy in the Republic of Kenya
Social misions in venezuela:- CLACSO highlights impact on poverty reduction in venezuela ............Pg18 More than 5 million pupils feed in school canteens with regional menus ..............................................Pg20 The great Venezuelan Housing mission ................Pg21 Venezuela builds 1,200,000 homes in five years ..Pg22 Venezuela achieved five UNESCO patrimonial declarations in four years ......................................Pg24 Climate change conference in Morocco ...............Pg25 Wahu kaara opinion article : There is no power stronger than the people ........................................Pg26 Kenya celerates its 53rd Independence Day .........Pg27 Solidarity with Saharawi ......................................Pg 28 Remembering Thomas Sankara ............................Pg29
EDITORIAL
Prof. Jhony Balza Arismendi
We are closing 2016, a year of initiatives, tasks, stumbling blocks, successes and satisfactions. We are culminating a journey, working for the country when it is understood that this "is more than the ground where it is born." We have done the homework and today we spread some of the duties fulfilled. Our bulletin volume 4, October December 2016 allows us to communicate what we do in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to restore dignity and dreams to people that had been mocked for decades by different governments that squandered resources, disrespected social rights, and despised human rights, humans ignoring legitimate people’s rights. Those governments only fulfilled literally the recipes entrusted by the national bourgeoisie in its close alliance with international financial capital. Today the editorial effort of this Venezuelan Mission in Kenya enables us to report on the new achievements of our revolution. This informative task allows us to inform our readers of some of the different missions and social programs that have benefited the humble, the dispossessed, the men and women who have decided to play a leading role stimulated in their conscience by President Chávez (1998- 2013) and now by President Nicolás Maduro. Our editorial policy allows us to generate information, allows us to communicate, and also allows us to reach an important network of friendly citizens to learn about issues of our national and international policy. From our newsletter we publish some of the social plans that benefit the people in housing, health, education, sports, human rights, just to mention a few.
This Newsletter allows us to promote achievements in the international board, to convey the support that different countries express to Venezuela in different multilateral organizations. It is important to highlight the solidarity expressed by the African group in Geneva at the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council in October 2016. Editing this Newsletter allows us to break through the many lies, insults and scandals to which our homeland and our revolutionary political process are subjected to by different international media corporations. From our Newsletter we write to inform you how much we do. We write to disseminate fundamental principles of sovereignty, multipolarity and basic foundations of the South-South cooperation. We write using the word that can no longer be neutral, for "when we speak the truth we must make use of the word that is committed, which is the center of our work." In this last bulletin of 2016 we can speak with authority of a beautiful task accomplished in Kenya. I am referring to the modest construction of two schools (Ilbissil Township Primary School in Kajiado county and Museno Primary School in Kakamega county) within the framework of the project called "SPONSOR A SCHOOL IN AFRICA". The Educational and pedagogical program that since 2006 has been promoted by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and was designed by the then President Chávez. In our central pages you will find details of the Venezuelan effort in the framework of solidarity with Kenya and the South-South cooperation. At the time of writing this editorial we were moved by news that shook our feelings. The physical disappearance of Fidel, one of the most honorable men in world politics. This obliges us to pay tribute to him in the pages of our bulletin. His libertarian and internationalist humanist focus ALWAYS was and will be in our hearts. Homeland or Death, Fidel December 2016
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BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA MINISTRY FOR PEOPLE'S POWER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMUNIQUÉ
Venezuela expresses its affection and solidarity to Cuba for the physical departure of Commander Fidel Castro Ruz The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, on behalf of the Government and the people of Venezuela expresses, on this day of pain, all his affection and solidarity to the President of Cuba, Raúl Castro Ruz, to Dalia, his sons, family, people and Government of the sister Republic of Cuba, before the physical departure of Commander Fidel Castro Ruz, historical leader of the Cuban Revolution and founder father of the new Latin American and Caribbean history, undoubtedly the most important American in history of the twentieth century and example of generations for all time. Commander Fidel Castro Ruz was and will forever be the Martian and Bolivarian giant who started a change of era and showed, with certainty and loyalty to his ideals, the way of building the humanist and socialist project in our Great Homeland.
Commander Fidel Castro leaves Cuba standing victorious. A dignified and radiant people, who rise above the difficulties of the future. With his example, he also insists that the path of the liberation of our people is the road to self-determination and sovereignty.
Venezuela had in Fidel Castro the greatest, supportive and affectionate of the friends; a teacher and a guide who designed, together with Commander Hugo Chávez, the new architecture of regional integration, based on solidarity, complementarity, fair treatment and human vision. We owe not only the creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America and Petro Caribe, but also the building of the Social Missions in Venezuela, beautiful examples that involved the deployment of thousands of Cuban doctors, educators and brothers throughout the vast territory of the Venezuelan homeland, forming the deepest experience of solidarity that the history of humanity has known and which implanted the medical attention, the fight against illiteracy and the accompaniment to millions of Venezuelans who had been relegated to oblivion by rude governments of the past.
Today we say to the father, the wise builder of ideas for the good of humanity: Fidel, history and the people of the world absolved you. Mission accomplished, Commander of the humble, soldier of our people; we are still fighting. In addition, we also tell you, after so many evenings and conversations, so many plans with our Commander Hugo Chávez, so many times we were surprised by the aurora listening to your luminous word that at this hour, when we witness your transit to immortality, comes to our mind the verse of Miguel Hernandez that names you:
As a revolutionary, as the Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, I repeat together with our eternal Commander what he once said of the great Cuban leader: "You, history maker, master: I say it without complexes. You are the father of all revolutionaries. You are our father. " We make ours the battle cry that so often voiced his beloved Cuba: "What did Fidel have, that the imperialists could never with him?"
"To the winged souls of roses Of the almond of cream I require, That we have to talk about many things, Companion of the soul, companion” The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela decrees three days of national mourning to honor the memory and the eternal legacy of Commander Fidel Castro.
Our life will not be enough to thank Commander Fidel Castro, our eternal Commander Hugo Chávez and the Cuban people, for so much love in works expressed towards our people.
With Bolivar, Martí, Chávez and Fidel we will overcome!Ever onward towards victory! Caracas, 26th November 2016
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Fidel also lives in Africa
In 1990, the fighter Nelson Mandela
is released from prison in South Africa, thanks to a vigorous international campaign, there by placing the apartheid regime to live its last days. But it was certainly the Cuban participation in Angola and the decisive victory obtained in the battle of Cuito Canavale in 1987 the one that made the opprobrious regime of racial segregation that then ruled in South Africa to stumble, forcing it to sit at a negotiating table. It was then that a great victory for the African people was concluded: The cessation of hostilities in Angola, the independence of Namibia and the transition to an inclusive electoral process in South Africa. That is why, once released, Mandela makes his first foreign visit, precisely to Cuba. There, at Revolution Square in Havana, before an enthusiastic crowd, alongside Fidel, Mandela expresses his appreciation, such as that of the South African people, because of the support provided by the Government and revolutionary people of Cuba for the liberation of an entire continent.
But Cuban support was not only restricted to these three countries, wherever there was oppression, Fidel and the revolutionary Cuba were willing to lay down their lives for the liberation of the people. That is why they not only participated in the liberation of Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, but also they were present in Ethiopia and Sahrawi Republic. It was not only military support but also technical, from healthcare personnel to civil engineers, actively participating in the construction of the new nations, as they did in Congo, Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Mali and many others. That is why African countries' acknowledgement towards Cuba is firm and sincere and therefore Africa is plunged into mourning because of this sad news. We could summarize that grief in the words of Ghanaian President Jhon Dramani Mahama: "Comrade Fidel Castro will always remain in our hearts and thoughts, he helped to improve the world", or that made by Angolan President JosĂŠ Eduardo Dos Santos: "Fidel Castro was a unequaled figure that marks an epoch for the role played in his country and in the great transformations of humanity, for freedom, social justice and the development of people". This internationalism would be one of the hallmarks of Fidel and the Cuban revolution that even in the most difficult moments has not ceased to offer its unconditional and disinterested support to the people of the world. Its internationalism has also resulted in the training of youth from all five continents in Cuba, reaching over 40,000 professionals, most of them doctors. As well as the thousands of Cuban doctors departing on international missions to save lives around the world. Fidel knew that the unity of the peoples of the South was fundamental not only for their subsistence as a nation but to achieving political sovereignity and the improvement of their lives. For this reason he fostered the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, of which the Havana has hosted on two occasions. He established a deep friendship with Commander ChĂĄvez, which in the political field resulted in the creation of CELAC and ALBA-TCP, important mechanisms for the integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. That is the socialism that Fidel proclaimed and that from Cuba it continues illuminating the whole world.
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By Carlos Feo Centre of African American and the Caribbean Knowledge Venezuela CUMBE Bulletin No: 24 29th November, 2016
Defending humanity
Fidel at the United Nations in 1979 ( Extract of the speech he gave on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement )
Mr. President, distinguished representatives: There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to speak of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk around barefoot so that others can travel in luxurious automobiles? Why should some live for 35 years so that others can live for 70? Why should some be miserably poor so that others can be overly rich? I speak in the name of the children in the world who do not have a piece of bread. [applause] I speak in the name of the sick who do not have medicine. I speak on behalf of those whose right to life and human dignity have been denied. Some countries have access to the sea; others do not. [applause] Some have energy resources; others do not. Some have abundant lands on which to grow food; others do not. Some are so saturated with machines and factories that one cannot even breather the air of their poisoned atmosphere; [applause] others have nothing more than their emaciated arms with which to earn their bread. In other words, some countries have abundant resources; others have none. What is the destiny of the latter? To starve to death? To be eternally poor? Of what use, then, is civilization? What is the use of man's conscience? Of what use is the United Nations? [applause] Of what use is the world? It is not possible to speak of peace in the name of tens of millions of human beings who die yearly of hunger, of curable disease throughout the world. One cannot speak of peace in the name of 900 million illiterate persons. The exploitation of poor countries by rich countries must cease. I know that in many poor countries there are also exploiters and exploited. I am addressing the rich nations, asking them to contribute. I am addressing the poor countries, asking them to distribute. Enough of words. Deeds are needed. [applause] 6
Enough of abstractions. Specific actions are needed. Enough of talk about a speculative new international economic order which no one understands. [applause] It is necessary to talk of a real and objective order that everyone understands. I have not come here as the prophet of revolution. I have not come to request or express the desire for violent upheaval in the world. I am here to talk of peace and cooperation among nations. I am here to warn that either injustice and inqualities are solved peacefully and wisely, or the future is going to be apocalyptic. [applause] The sound of weapons, of threatening words and prepotency in the international arena must cease. [applause] Enough of the illusion that the world's problems can be solved with nuclear weapons. Bombs might kill the hungry, the sick and the ignorant, but they cannot kill hunger, disease, ignorance and the people's just rebellion. In the holocaust, the wealthy will also die. They are the ones that stand to lose the most in this world. [applause] Let us say farewell to arms and concentrate in a civilized manner on the most urgent problems of our time. This is the responsibility and most sacred duty of every statesman in the world. Furthermore, this is an indispensable requirement for mankind's survival. Thank you very much. [applause] from the Venezuela CUMBE Bulletin No: 24 29th November, 2016
Opinion:
By Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Jhony Balza Arismendi published in the Star Newspaper, September 24th/25th, 2016
NON ALIGNED MOVEMENT
Non-Aligned Movement founders India’s Jawaharlal Nehru, Ghana’s Kwame Nkurumah, Egypt’s Gamal Nasser, Indonesia’s Achmad Sukarno and Yugoslavia’s Josip Tito
VENEZUELA AT THE HELM OF NAM September
commitment to multilateralism and contribute to sponsor plans, projects and resolutions defining proposals and policies that lead to peace in the world, respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and equality of nations.
2016, between the 13th and 18th, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela became the third Latin American country to assume the leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement. Previously, it had been chaired by Cuba (twice) in 1979 and 2006, Colombia in 1995 and now Venezuela, which will preside until 2019.
Venezuela, along with 53 African countries, 39 from Asia, 26 from Latin America and the Caribbean, plus two European countries, will now stimulate policies of profound social content, propose projects of solidarity cooperation, without dominant pretensions and adherence to the principles of self-determination for the people.
We have no doubt that during this period, Venezuela will establish itself as a faithful driver of this multilateral organisation that brings together 120 countries worldwide. President Nicolás Maduro was thankful for the support and said this period “will be used with firmness and loyalty for the cause of our people’’.
Venezuela will lead and promote, in NAM, the South-South cooperation based on mutual interest and respect for the national sovereignty of each country.
In 1955, NAM was preceded by the Afro-Asian conference in Bandung, Indonesia. On this date, 29 heads of state of the two continents gathered to clarify and define joint policies to overcome decolonisation initiated after the end of World War II.
We will follow the route expressed by the Commander Hugo Chávez in his message to the Africa-South America Summit III in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2013. “Our South-South cooperation must be a genuine and a permanent link of joint work that should unite all its strategies and sustainable development plans towards the South’’.
NAM is the world’s second largest organisation, after the UN
After the Bandung Conference, six years later in Belgrade in 1961, NAM was born, raising the flags of the economic and political sovereignty against hegemonic powers of the so called first world. The NAM today is the world’s second-largest organisation by representation, after the United Nations, which means a great opportunity for Venezuela to demonstrate its 7
There are many, perhaps 100, tasks that today will have to be addressed. Several of them are priority: to democratise international relations, confront the hegemonic projects sponsored from some northern countries; and the attempts at domination that harm the sovereignty of the countries of the South. Claiming the character of multilateralism as an option to address global challenges is a priority requirement Venezuela would know how to comply with this demand. It is essential that we all understand the need for a multi-polar world where peace, freedom and development are collective principles. The vast majority of humanity today calls for non-interference in the internal affairs of other nations and respect for the will of the people. These are part of the problems to be addressed at the global level, while understanding that NAM has both old and new challenges. This month, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela assumes the presidency of NAM with a commitment to join efforts to confront and stop a new wave of imperialist character, which aims to re-colonise and subdue the people of the world.
We all have a challenge, to strengthen the work for peace and international security. Then Venezuela will make greater efforts to be accompanied on the international chessboard. No one can deny that the South every day becomes increasingly important on the international scene. No one can deny that the South plays a substantive role to establish new forms of coexistence on the planet. Every day humanity rebels against those who try to justify dominant and exclusionary positions and to this reality. The South must establish itself as an important factor in promoting initiatives that emphasise the conference of Bandung (Indonesia) and the emergence of NAM, which since its founding, declared the fight against all forms of imperial domination. Venezuela declares itself ready to guarantee the right to the future of the people of the South.
‘‘ Venezuela assumes the
presidency of the Non-Aligned movement with a commitment to join efforts to confront and stop a new wave of Imperialist character, which aims to re-colonise and subdue the people of the world
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Venezuela promotes the NAM
2nd NON - ALIGNED MOVEMENT (NAM) FILM FESTIVAL
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With the participation of the embassies of the
Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Cuba and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the second film festival of the NAM - ‘Movies from the South’ was held from the 27th to the 29th September 2016 in the auditorium of the Alliance Française, Nairobi. With the screening of the films ‘Gold and Copper’ by Iranian director Homayoon Asadian; ‘Smell of Oak’, by Cuban director Rigoberto Lopez; and ‘Brother’ by Venezuelan director Marcel Rasqui. This initiative was carried out within the framework of the Venezuelan Presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement, a position it assumed at the XVII Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement, held at the Margarita Island, Venezuela, from the 13th to the 18th September 2016.
Ambassador Jhony Balza Arismendi stressed in his speech the importance of this event, because of its significance to relive the experience already started in October 2015. This is to bring together members of the Non-Aligned Movement in this country, with the aim of reviving the spirit that inspired the creation of this body and spread to the Kenyan society the efforts of the founders of this organization to build a world of peace and solidarity. He also stressed that as Chair of the NAM, we have great and new challenges, and it behoves us to live up to meet the approved set of demands, among others; respect of the sovereignty of our countries, non-interference in the internal affairs of States and the ultimate democratization of the United Nations.
This activity was attended by the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jhony Ambassador Jhony Balza Arismendi, the Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba, Tania Pérez ‘‘ This initiative was carried Xiquez; and the Director of the Iranian Cultural out within the framework of Centre, Seyed Mohammad Khalili. Also present the Venezuelan Presidency of were representatives of the Kenyan Foreign Affairs the Non-Aligned Movement, Ministry, members of the diplomatic corps accredited position it assumed at the to Kenya and the Kenya Venezuela Friendship and XVII Summit of the Solidarity Network, as well as a representation of the Non-Aligned Movement, held community of Mathare and the public in general. at the Margarita Island, Venezuela, from the 13th to the 18th September 2016.’’
Balza Arismendi took the opportunity to invite the other member countries of the NAM present in Kenya to join efforts to institutionalize this festival and incorporate new countries of the South in future film shows. The Attendees received from Embassy copies of the Declaration adopted at the NAM Summit XVII and the speech made by President Hugo Chavez at the XIV NAM Summit held in Cuba in 2006.
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Congratulatory note Kenya Venezuela Friendship and Solidarity Committee (September 2016)
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Note to the Government and People of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on assuming the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement
The
Kenya Venezuela Friendship and Solidarity Committee takes this opportunity to congratulate the Government and the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on the auspicious occasion of assuming the chair of the Non-Aligned Movement. We do this with the full confidence that under the able legacy of President Chรกvez, the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the movement will be able to re-engineer its historic mandate, consolidate and steer the fragmented aspirations of the peoples of the Global South into a more effective and self confident engagement with and solidarity in dealing with the challenges of the new world order. Building on the magnificent tradition set by Hugo Chรกvez, we are more than certain that Venezuela and her people will not only be equal to the task ahead but also be able to drive the NAM agenda along a new and progressive path. They will also strive to place it on a platform that will be worth the heritage and continuation of what Chรกvez stood and sacrificed the revolutionary potential, political integrity and moral dignity of the Venezuelan people against US imperialist aggression. The Non-Aligned Movement has been on a long and twisted journey. The path has spiraled tortuously around a steep mountain of challenges, setbacks and great achievements. NON ALIGNED Born of the cold war era MOVEMENT amidst the painful process of decolonization when the
contradictions between the super powers sought to straight jacket the destinies of the peoples of the Global South, it did not fill a vacuum in the bipolar international situation of the 1950s. Instead, it emerged forcefully as a veritable platform for articulating the militant demands of the newly liberated peoples of the Global South for self-determination and fraternal South-South cooperation as a viable instrument for stemming the unfettered expansion of neo-liberal capitalism. It has, since then, remained a potent instrument for processing and effectuating militant demands for national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the nation states emerging from colonial and imperial subjugation and the accompanying degrading effects of under-development. It still stands for disarmament, non-interference in internal affairs of states and peaceful coexistence among sovereign nations. In doing so, obviously with mixed results, it has provided the much needed refuge for the majority of former colonies that had been forced into playing the disdainful role of pawns of the hegemonic super powers on their global chessboard. In this way it assuaged the painfully divisive effects of the bipolar rivalry between the super powers. We have fond memories of the 3rd summit of 1970. It produced the Lusaka declaration that saw the Movement assertively reaffirm the imperatives of economic emancipation through the renewed demand for self-reliance. The increased radicalization of this agenda around an unwavering anti-imperialist program was given increased traction when, later on - at the conference of 1973 in Algiers - the movement launched the demand for a NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER 10
(NIEO) with the renewed energy and purpose to remove the imperialist fingers from the scales of equitable economic development. It helped in the difficult task of integrating the agenda of both national liberation and democratic social progress.
that require the steady hand and progressive leadership of a nation and a people with vast and bitter experience with the modern manifestations of market driven marginalization of particular sections of humanity. Venezuela fits the bill.
The re-unipolarization of the world politics, following the collapse of the Soviet Block, introduced a set of new challenges, including the existential threat to the continued operations of the movement in the way of not finding a reason to exist, particularly at the end of the clash between the two antagonistic ideological blocks.
One of its main challenges will be to forestall the real and encroaching threat of state or governmental control and monopoly of the Bandung agenda and instead to strengthen and reaffirm the popular base of the movement: NAM must, in this respect, remain the democratic instrument of the people of the Global South and not a diplomatic contraption of global-southern governments.
At the 14th summit in Havana, Cuba, the movement was destined to re-affirm its commitment to the ideals, principles and broad objectives in pursuit of which it was founded. This was a welcome rejuvenation of the movement against odds without number; including mounting threats to national sovereignty and democratic development in member nations like Brazil, Libya, Syria, Cuba and others. Venezuela, the great land of Hugo Chávez, is now poised to assume the chairmanship of a movement facing intractable challenges and whose historic role in the present international situation is in dire need for a strategic and ideological re-positioning, particularly in the face of an increasing multi-polarization of global affairs. Neo-liberal globalization is proceeding at breakneck speed and thereby introducing geo-political challenges
This explains, but only in part, why we all look forward to a dynamic chairmanship and hope that this is the opportunity the peoples of the Global South have been waiting for; first to stem the tide of external misintegration into the globalizing capitalism and internal disintegration of the global-southern societies. We believe that the collateral benefits arising from the above will create the necessary conditions for the people of Venezuela to advance their quest for freedom from the US imperialist strangle hold on the economy and sovereignty of the Bolivarian Republic and its people. “LONG LIVE THE BANDUNG AGENDA UNDER THE CARE OF THE BOLIVARIAN SPIRIT”
Signed by: The Kenya Venezuela Friendship and Solidarity Committee Prof. Edward Oyugi
Mr. Mwandawiro Mghanga
Ms. Wahu Kaara
Mr. Booker Ngesa
Mr. Mwaura Kaara
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Prof. David Anyoti
Mr. Benedict Wachira
2nd NAM seminar at the African Union headquarters in Nairobi The
Second Seminar on the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was held at the African Union headquarters in Nairobi on the 26th October, 2016. This was done as part of the activities planned by this Diplomatic Mission as soon as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela became the chair of this organization as from September 2016 to 2019. We conceived this initiative in order to facilitate space that allows us to reflect on the different issues, adversities and challenges facing this multilateral organization that represents 55% of the worlds population. This event allowed us to meet with different diplomatic representatives from Kenya, Eritrea, Algeria, India, Uganda, Saharawi, Tanzania, Colombia, Indonesia, Kuwait, among others. It is important to emphasize the interventions of the Government of Kenya represented by the Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mrs. Monica Juma, the presence of the University of Nairobi represented by Professor Maria Nzomo, the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr. Hadi Farajvand, who recently presided over the (NAM) between 2013-2016, social movements, representations by Dr. David Anyoti on behalf of Professor Edward Oyugi and Mr. Yves Niyiragira. The seminar incorporated criteria and ideas that, although diverse and controversial, served to review the current complex and delicate international board. There were no shortage of recommendations, suggestions and even proposals to encourage this body, (NAM). Suggestions to refresh, invigorate and thus channel the different approaches, coincidences and strategies to respond to the hundreds of demands that exist to define substantive contemporary issues such as Peace, the democratization of the United Nations, the Sovereignty of the people, Climate Change and many others that are outlined as important issues. Embassy of Venezuela, Nairobi, Kenya 12
VENEZUELA & AFRICA
Before and after Hugo Chavez
Intervention by Reinaldo Bolívar Deputy Minister for Africa Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Before the African representatives at the UNHRC, Geneva:
But the most alarming part was that there were no diplomatic relations not even with half of the fifty-four (54) African countries. Venezuela had only signed – in fifty years-, only thirty agreements with the whole of Africa.
I come here on behalf of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros; the Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, Delcy Rodriguez; and on behalf of the Venezuelan people to thank the African Group for the valuable support that they have provided to our country in the framework of the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council that took place between the 13th - 30th September, 2016
For years they aimed to convince our government that Africa was poor and that we should only look to the North. But, as all of us here present know, Africa is not poor. How is a Continent going to be poor when it is the main mineral and gem stones reservoir in the world?
Thank you Africa for such a decisive support! Friends, The relations between Venezuela and Africa changed drastically when Hugo Chávez Frías rose to power. In 1998 Venezuela kept a subordination type of relation with the Northern countries. This was evidenced through public policies and diplomatic relations, as well as in economic and trade exchanges. In 2001, when President Hugo Chávez Frías began the process of rebuilding the Republic, he developed a foreign policy on the basis of multi-polarity in a multicenter based world. Before 1999, the relations between Venezuela and Africa were based on political, economic and cultural discrimination.
How is a Continent going to be poor when it has the second largest water reserve in the world? Just the water that is produced in Ethiopia and Kenya could sustain 75% of the African territory. How is a territory going to be poor with more than 30 million squared kilometers? How is a territory going to be poor that has 20% of the world oil reserves? President Hugo Chávez, Historic leader of the Bolivarian Revolution and Paladin of the Southern causes was very clear in his policies. He said it with devotion: We come from Africa and we should look to Africa.
As an example of these policies: Venezuela only had eight (8) embassies in Africa; four (4) in the North and only four (4) in the sub-Saharan Africa. These embassies were underestimated. Our capital did not provide the support that they required.
In 2005, President Hugo Chávez restructured the Venezuela Foreign Ministry and created the Deputy Ministry for Africa. From there on began a Bolivarian and humanitarian diplomacy to bring us close to our “Mother Continent”, as Hugo Chávez called Africa.
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In this framework the “Africa Agenda” was created from the Venezuelan Foreign Policy. This agenda is based in the great cultural and historical similarities between Africa and Venezuela. And it paves the way for the reunion between the Venezuelan people and the African peoples. In the Africa Agenda the need of helping each other and complementing each other is clearly expressed. The cooperation with Africa is in the center of our foreign policy. Venezuela has its strengths in education, health, knowledge, energy resources, which we make available to our African brothers and sisters. Africa, as you well know, has its strengths in agriculture, mining, regional organization in political, financial, environmental areas among others which are examples to the world. The African Agenda is founded on the constitutional principles: in the 2001 – 2007 Nation’s Economic and Social Development Plan; in the 2005 – 2013 Simon Bolivar Strategic Plan; and in the 2013 – 2018 Homeland Plan. Its great goals are:
Today we have 18 Embassies, with ambassadors committed to the Bolivarian Revolution. Many of them happen to be of African descent, since in our country almost 55% of the population is recognized as having African descent. Our Embassies in Africa have allowed to increase, to the highest level, the bilateral contacts, official visits, signing of agreements and exchanges. Many agreements have been signed with all of the African countries, in order to develop cooperation and exchange programs in education, culture, sports and health areas. In 2005 there were 30 agreements. Today, we have more than 500 agreements in energy, oil, education, mining, agriculture, science and technology and a brotherhood has been created amongst African and Venezuelan cities. In 2006, Venezuela brought together the first Joint Commission with a sub-Saharan African country: Gambia, setting a milestone in Venezuelan diplomacy that had turned its back to the African Continent. That same year, President Hugo Chávez was the first non-African President to participate in an African Union Summit. It was in Banjul where he proposed the South Poles, through the creation of a Bank of the South, a University of the South, a television of the South (Telesur) and an oil company of the South (Petrosur).
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• To boost multi-polarity in the international community. Which translates into promoting the configuration of a more balanced world system. • To consolidate and diversify international relations, strengthening the South – South Cooperation. • To contribute in the promotion and protection of human rights, supporting the regional peace process. The number of Venezuelan Embassies in Africa increased significantly. Venezuela opened 10 new Embassies in Africa to have 18, and become the third Latin American and Caribbean country with largest presence in the African Continent. And with their aid and personnel we serve Africa as a whole.
In 2009, President Chávez held in Venezuela the II South American – African Summit, with the participation to the highest level of representatives of 66 countries. There the Margarita Declaration was drafted, which gathers all of the desires of the peoples of the South in many cooperation areas. The commitment was acquired to complement its natural resources, which are the most abundant on the earth.
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With Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution, lead today by President Nicolás Maduro Moros, Venezuela turned to Africa. In our universities there have been fields of study created on Africa and the African Knowledge Center was founded, which is the only one in Our America. Venezuela has developed the solidarity program “Support an African School”, aimed at avoiding school dropouts. The program provides school supplies to thousands of boys and girls; and provides aid to teachers and families. It had repaired and rebuild schools and it is complemented with the International Scholarship Program that Venezuela grants to African, Asian and Latin American students. Thousands of youth coming from brother countries of the South study in Simon Bolivar’s Homeland. This program is present in 28 African countries and has benefitted more than 300 thousand boys and girls. Around 500 students coming from 22 African countries study in Venezuela and more than 400 youths have studied in Algeria. Soon a group of Venezuelan engineers will travel to South Africa to specialize in mining. Venezuela has received boys and girls coming from Africa to be treated and have surgery related to heart diseases. Venezuela, through CEDEAO programs and the Cuban participation contribute in the fight against malaria. The Bolivarian Government with the support of the FAO, carries out in 10 African countries an ambitious rice and other crop planting programs. President Chávez created an African Fund and asked the rich African and South American countries to join this effort. This Fund has helped many countries in emergencies such as floods, droughts and other natural disasters.
Our Revolution is not a threat to anyone, as certain imperial voices claim. Our Revolution is hope. We have a diplomacy based on peace and stand for the full enjoyment of human rights for all, without any sort of exclusions or discriminations. The Venezuelan struggles for independence, sovereignty and self-determination are the same as those of the African people. Thanks to the solidarity support of the African governments and people, today Venezuela is part of the UN Security Council; the Human Rights Council and the ECOSOC. This coming November 1st 2016, Venezuela will have its second Universal Periodic Review. I respectfully ask you to participate in Venezuela’s UPR, giving your support in this important review for my country. This is a new opportunity to reaffirm the commitment of all of our Governments, with the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedom. I would like to reiterate the importance of the UPR as the United Nations most important mechanism for the promotion and protection of these rights. We reiterate our commitment with genuine dialogue, cooperation, international solidarity, which are the founding pillars of multilateralism and the labor of the Human Rights Council. We restate our firm and unhindered solidarity commitment with the peoples and Governments of Africa. We still have a long road ahead of us, but we are on the right path. New challenges await us and we must remain together. On behalf of the Bolivarian Government and the Venezuelan People, thank you very much. Long Live Africa! Long Live Venezuela! Long Live the peoples of the South!
Our Government boosts these solidary policies that are born from the Venezuelan soul, with its deep African roots. We are with African, because we are brothers!
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Sponsor a school in Africa (Kenya) programme
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Ilbisil Township Pri. School, Kajiado County
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projects are part of the ‘‘Sponsor a School in Africa programme’’ conceived in 2006 by President Hugo Chávez as part of the great purpose to strengthen fraternal cooperation and South-South linkages. The programme to date has been carried out in 18 African countries. On the 4th October, 2016, the first project of a block of five (5) additional classrooms was inaugurated at Ilbissil Township Primary School, located in Ilbissil Town, Kajiado County, Kenya. The delivered classrooms were equipped with desks, chairs, blackboards and bookshelves.
The objective of this project at Ilbissil Township Primary School, is to reduce the number of pupils per class. It is also to improve the quality and welfare of the pupils, while allowing the entry of new ones to the educational institution. This Primary School currently has sixteen (16) teachers, ten (10) teachers provided by the Teachers Service Commission and six (6) teachers provided by the Parent Teacher Association, to serve a total of nine hundred one (901) pupils; 453 girls and 448 boys.
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Museno Pri. School, Kakamega County
On the 9th November
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2016, the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Jhony Balza formally delivered to the authorities and the community of Khayega, Kakamega County facilities of the new "Museno Primary School" built with funds provided by the Venezuelan government presided by the President Nicolรกs Maduro. In the construction of this second project in Museno Primary, a total of 11 classrooms, 14 toilets (for both male and female), a perimeter fence with a gate and an administration block were were originaly planned. Importantly, each of the 11 classrooms was equipped with desks and chairs that will allow appropriate conditions for positive impact of learning promoted and transmitted there.
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Ambassador Balza at the time of his speech stressed, "I thank God, President Hugo Chรกvez, President Nicolรกs Maduro for allowing me to come to Kenya and witness in the eyes of the 1,048 pupils and 16 teachers, gesture of joy as they received this contribution executed by the Venezuelan government." Ambassador Balza and his team were accompanied to this great event by authorities from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, area member of parliament and officials from the Ministry of Education, teachers of Museno primary, the local church as well as parents and representatives of the children who would benefit from this noble project.
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CLACSO highlights impact of social misions
on poverty reduction in Venezuela
CLACSO = Latin American Council of Social Sciences is an international institution Non-governmental organization with associative status in UNESCO
Some Of The Social Misions In Venezuela
"CLACSO has given us its solidarity, commitment and support to the social achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution. They come as researchers to check progress in social matters," he said. He explained that this agreement opens a space for students and university professors to have access to the entire CLACSO network and can join their postgraduate studies and their networks.
The Latin American Council of Social
Sciences (CLACSO, Spanish initials) stressed that the social missions implemented in Venezuela are a reference for Latin America and the Caribbean, as participatory public policies for poverty reduction and expansion of opportunities for the Venezuelan people.
For his part, Gentili added that Venezuela has become one of the dynamic poles, with greater participation, plural and creative space within the Latin American social sciences. He expressed his solidarity with the Venezuelan Government in relation to the social work he carries out. In this sense, he added that for any perspective that is thought of for the future of Venezuela it is important to strengthen the achieved achievements that have benefited the poorest Venezuelans.
The Vice President for Social Development and Revolution of the Missions, Jorge Arreaza, signed a cooperation agreement with CLACSO under his executive secretary, Pablo Gentili, which will strengthen and expand the work developed by this institution in the country. According to a note published in a portal of the Social Vice Presidency, Arreaza recognized the importance of the presence of representatives of CLACSO in the nation.
"They have shown to the whole of America and the world that it is possible to use the State to build social justice, more democracy and more opportunities ... this agreement represents an opportunity to develop new lines of work, new forms of cooperation and to be able to learn from This important process of transformation that Venezuela is living " he said.
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The executive secretary said that social missions are a reference for the region as public policies for poverty reduction. "The missions are a field from which we have much to learn, how it is rethought in terms of the new challenges that we have in the countries," he said.
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have to have a Latin American evaluation system that revalues the quality of academic training, but
Gentili said that from CLACSO they analyze the possibility of designing a form of evaluation of universities. "We believe that traditional assessment systems overlook important elements in maintaining a very colonial logic that is very centralized in the modes of development of the educational systems of the United States and England. We believe that we have to have a Latin American evaluation system that revalues the Quality of academic training, but also shows the social function that institutions fulfill," he emphasized.
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He acknowledged that Venezuela was the country of Latin America that had the most significant growth in the university enrollment during the last 15 years, and this was as a result of public policies that were carried out and allowed millions of Venezuelans to enter universities.
The CLACSO is an international non-governmental institution with associative status in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) created in 1967, and whose main objectives are to promote Social research to combat poverty and inequality, the strengthening of human rights and democratic participation.
"Knowledge as a common good must be freely accessible to all citizens of the Republic and expand the possibilities of access to academic knowledge and work collectively against the monopoly of knowledge. It is one of the challenges of CLACSO, " he reflected.
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Important achievement in Venezuela
More than 5 million pupils will
feed in school canteens with regional menus With the start of the new school year,
the national Government aspires to increase the performance of a significant number of children and young people in the classrooms, because it will extend to more educational institutions having the School Feeding Program (PAE, for its acronym in Spanish), which will be applied under a scheme of regionalization of the menu.
The new feeding program, to be implemented from 15th September, will provide balanced diets adjusted to the towns where the campus is located. This will not only ensure entry into the educational system but also permanence, progress and performance, in contrast to the old program that consisted of a glass or packet of milk given only to those who were enrolled in schools in popular areas. Another type of the program that prevailed in the 90’s was the subsidy granted to the parents. It did not guarantee that the child had a balanced diet; even though it remained in force between 1989 and 1999, child malnutrition was at 7.66%, while 1,800,000 children and youth were not in school, according to data from the National Statistics Institute. The Minister of Education Mr Rudolfo Perez, said that the regionalization of the menu will ensure feeding for 5,200,000 children and adolescents who will attend studies in the 20,208 educational institutions in the country. "The regionalization is a measure taken by the President of the Republic, Nicolås Maduro, and this is a referential program in Latin America, because it provides 70% of the
necessary calories for schoolchildren, in comparison with other Nations that do not reach 30%", he said. For the teacher Lilibeth Gonzalez, the feeding school program created by the former President Hugo ChĂĄvez in 1999 has improved the nutrition of children and young people studying and keeps them in the educational system, in this way, foods purchased at home can be managed better. "There were many parents who received the scholarship cheque and spend the money in brandy. Teachers today observe the students eating. The school dining rooms are a relief and hope", he said. The PAE, one of components of the School Feeding System of the National Corporation of School Feeding (CNAE, for its acronym in Spanish), currently has a list of 77 products approved in 1999 by the National Institute of Nutrition. "With regionalization we are recognizing the culinary and gastronomic culture of each State, including the indigenous people," said Alexis Adarfio, President of the CNAE, who acknowledged the difficulties for access to food in some schools. "Thanks to the ingeniousness of the cooks the missing products were replaced; "for example, the State of Bolivar made churros from the tuber yansin, which is only harvested in the Orinoco river". Adarfio said that 4,021,114 children and adolescents received food in school canteens, amounting on average to more than ten 10,700,000 meals served per day, including those who receive classes on weekends. He added that the regionalization of the menu will boost local production, purchases will be made directly from the producers, communal councils and communes since Mercal is the only supplier of the items. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) points out that Venezuela is among the 27 countries free of hunger.
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President Maduro: Highlight in Habitat III (Ecuador)
The Great Venezuelan Housing Mission
"Article 82 of the Human Rights chapter includes the right to housing for the first time, with constitutional status, and establishes the fundamental elements to support families and communities." He added that since 1999 they started a set of trials on the agendas designed in Vancouver and Istanbul and based on the search for overcoming the capitalist model that "defines the soil and housing as a commodity and not as a Right of people, of families.”
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, was one of the first leaders to participate in the General Assembly of Habitat III on the 17th October, 2016 in the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development in Quito, Ecuador.
On that stage he transmitted a "very special" greeting to the people of Quito. "We have loved you forever, from history. It is the land of our general Manuela Sáenz, of General Eloy Alfaro ". He then mentioned that the New Urban Agenda is the result of a proposal, from the United Nations system, to respond to fundamental problems created by the development of capitalism of the twentieth century. "Problems of housing, stability of families, communities, problems of overcoming poverty and misery, immense human migrations that generated the phenomenon of the explosion and concentration of immense migrant sectors within our countries of Latin America , Caribbean, Africa and Asia ". He also said that since 1999, Venezuela has modestly developed an extraordinary experience. "There has been a housing and habitat revolution as part of the Democratic Revolution that started with Commander Hugo Chávez." He recalled that in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, elaborated with the "broader participation of the people", the right to housing is collected for the first time as a fundamental human right.
Finally, in 2011, according to President Maduro a successful model was reached, which has been shared with the different governments and systems in the world. This is the Great Venezuelan Housing Mission, created by President Chávez. For this, he said, important alliances with countries have been made that have contributed capital and technology experience. In that list is the People's Republic of China, Iran, Portugal, Spain, Russia and India. "This is a great international alliance that has allowed us to bring new technologies and incorporate achievements of worldwide architecture." He recalled that in the last five years the Venezuelan government has culminated and delivered approximately 1.1 million homes to popular families. "That is, 211,000 dwellings annually in a country with 28 million inhabitants". He said that the goal of this year, until December 31st, 2016 is to deliver 1,500,000 more homes and march to the goal set in a national census of 3 million until 2019. ‘‘The Great Venezuelan Housing Mission has allowed a miracle in redevelopment, in overcoming poverty and misery. It has allowed us to carry out much of the postulates of Istanbul and to be in tune with the New Urban Agenda". According to the Venezuelan president, in five years they have invested 95 billion US dollars, "four times the international reserves of Venezuela. That allows us to have faith and confidence that these goals will strengthen housing policies." www.elcomercio.com 21
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Venezuela builds 1,200,000 homes in five years A
historic milestone was achieved on the 10th November 2016, in Venezuela with the delivery of 1,200,000 houses. Thanks to the success of the Great Venezuela Housing mission (GMVV, Spanish initials), the housing program created in 2011 at the initiative of the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chรกvez, and that in its five years it has reached an equal number of families throughout the country. The delivery was led by the President of the Republic, Nicolรกs Maduro, who moved to Trujillo State to give to Ms. Margot Andrade the keys to her new home. "It gives me great joy to reach the doors of the house of this beautiful family," was President Maduro's expression after entering Margot's house. As it has happened with more than 700,000 Venezuelan families, this Andean also received the title of ownership of her house from the hands of the President. During the activity, President Maduro reflected on the importance of valuing this good that is a product of the effort of the humanist vision of the Bolivarian Government, which promotes public policies to consolidate social investment throughout the country. 22
President Maduro stressed that this act goes beyond the delivery of housing, it must be assumed as the opportunities offered by the National Government to build a home full of patriotic love, education and good example. "Beyond housing, which is very important for the family, is the construction of homes, homes of the homeland, homes of love, Values, education, good example, solidarity," he said. The GMVV was born in 2011 after heavy rains destroyed homes in 2010 and its objective, in principle, was to care for those left homeless. However, the housing policy expanded rapidly and this has allowed support to the rest of the Venezuelan families that do not have the necessary resources to acquire a home with these characteristics. President Maduro complied with the delivery of 1,200,000 house in the middle of a year of economic conditions, characterized by a 70% drop in oil prices, the main national income. Towards territorial socialism In the act, President Maduro also emphasized that the GMVV is a fundamental pillar in the construction of territorial socialism.
He pointed out that in contrast to the capitalist model - in which individualism and the interests of minority groups prevail, the socialist model defends the quality of life of the majorities with an emphasis on those most in need. In that context, he reiterated his call to work, with more force, together with popular power in the construction of territorial socialism through a plan led by missions and major missions. Companies run by the GMVV As part of the announcements, the head of state reported that all public companies in the construction sector will be led by GMVV, in order to boost the industrialization of housing construction in the national territory.
The Socialist Corporation of Cement and all the cement plants (of the public sector) of the country. He emphasized that these actions respond to the need to deepen the housing construction policies applied by the National Government to guarantee the welfare and social protection of the Venezuelan people. "Venezuela has the rhythm of the highest housing construction in the world, despite the right, that has wanted to sabotage the Great Venezuela Mission Housing and we have not stopped. The right we have to leave it in its corner, and be everywhere in the national territory building and working for Venezuela," he said. www.avn.info.ve
"I am going to put all Venezuelan (public) industry in the field of construction and inputs for the construction of housing under the Ministry of Housing. We will restructure all these companies by summoning the working class," he said in a joint Radio and television interview. The President explained that these measures are in line with the country's restructuring plan for public enterprises, which aims to optimize and boost industrialization in various productive areas. "We are going to create a large construction corporation in Venezuela, a powerful conglomerate that will unify public companies and put them to work. Tough hand against corruption," he said. He named among the transferred companies the factory of blocks, tiles and bricks "Pedro Zaraza"; Production Plant for Asphalt, Concrete and Aggregates (PACA, Spanish initials); Factory of Movable Plants of Venezuela; Tubrica Pipe factory; "Leonarda Rivas" Factory of metal structures for construction of buildings; 23
A cultural example to the world
Venezuela achieved five UNESCO patrimonial declarations in four years
Venezuela is at the head of the world as the country that has achieved five declarations of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in a period of four years, which began in 2012 until 2016. During the program Kiosko Veraz, broadcasted by Venezuelan Television, the president of the Center for Cultural Diversity, Benito Irady, highlighted Venezuela's achievement which is part of the policies of the Bolivarian Revolution to defend and protect the Venezuelan cultural heritage. "With this new declaration we have been at the head of the world, there are two countries in the planet, Venezuela and Uganda which have the largest number of declarations in the period of 2012 to 2016. Uganda has all of them on a list, that is the list of safeguard, but Venezuela has them not only in the safeguard list but also in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity," he said.
On December 1st 2016, the Carnival of El Callao was recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), during the meeting of its Intergovernmental Committee held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 2012, the Dancing Devils of Corpus Christi entered the representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO; Also in 2013, the Parranda de San Pedro; In 2014, the Oral Tradition Mapoyo and in 2015, knowledge related to the cultivation and processing of Curagua.
He explained that the Urgent Safeguard List and the Register of Good Practices are a set of special measures to protect and preserve cultural expressions, which require attention. However, the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity refers to the memories of the identity of a town that has the characteristics of a great fortress.
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Venezuelaʼs Minister Paiva attends conference
Climate change conference in Morocco The
Minister for People’s Power for Ecosocialism and Water, Ernesto Paiva, participated in the high level segment of the Conference on Climate Change (COP 22), held in Marrakech, Morocco, representing the Venezuelan homeland. The conference begun on the 7th to the 18th of November, 2016 During his speech to the delegations from more than 100 countries, Paiva pointed out that "capitalism as a model of destructive development threatens to definitively end the human species. Faced with this model imposed by the industrialized countries, their leaders must be aware of their historical responsibilities regarding climate change. " "Developing countries require funding, capacity-building and the transfer of adequate technology to access financing. Likewise, he said that when it comes to climate there should be no conditionality or differentiation of status between countries, and nothing in any way limits or prevents the access of states to finance climate change," said Paiva. The head of the ecosocialist portfolio stressed that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela supports the efforts of the second high level ministerial dialogue on financing for the climate to address the challenges and opportunities in the mobilization, delivery and access to financial resources. "For our country, the Paris Agreement as the multilateral instrument of the United Nations must be open to all visions. It is a will that plurality prevails in multilateral environmental scenarios," he said. In this way he continued by stating that the Marrakech meetings and the future climate conferences should be an encouraging reflection for the positive transformation of the world reality. "Actions that must be driven without delay, that allow reaching the
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objectives of the sustainable development, to eradicate the poverty and to assure a more balanced relation between the human being and nature," he said.
The Minister concluded by highlighting the call for this meeting for climate change, rescuing the proposals of the eternal Commander Hugo Chávez in Copenhagen: ‘‘... Let us listen to the voice of the street. If we want to change the climate, change the system; listen to the voice of the people.’’ www.minea.gob.ve
Let us remember President Hugo Chávez at the climate change conference in Copenhagen, 2009 ‘‘Let’s not change the climate, let’s change the system! And consequently we will begin to save the planet. Capitalism is a destructive development model that is putting an end to life; it threatens to put a definitive end to the human species.’’ ‘‘And I think that's true. If the climate were one of the biggest capitalist banks, the rich governments would have saved it.’’ ‘‘Climate change is undoubtedly the most devastating environmental problem of this century. Floods, droughts, severe storms, hurricanes, melting ice caps, rise in mean sea levels, ocean acidification and heat waves, all of that sharpens the impact of global crisis besetting us.’’
Kenyan ecofeminist and ecosocialist Wahu Kaara in Venezuela
Venezuelans have shown the world that there is no power stronger than the people
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the Kenyan political activist Wahu Kaara, it is essential that the Venezuelan people remain in force, now more than Wahu Kaara Vice Chairperson for External Affairs ever, the track marked by the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez Frías, who was able to show the world the force that the popular power has. "You as Venezuelans have a responsibility to provide leadership to the world. They have the vision and imagination of how life should be. They have shown the world that there is no power stronger than the power of the people and that power is located in the heart, no one can take it away unless you choose to deliver it and the gift that Venezuelans have given to the world is that they are not ready to give their hearts, " said Kaara in the Africa Asia and Latin International Ecosocialist Conference, held on 24th October 2016, in Vargas state in Venezuela.
East Africa and the whole of Africa. We have come to you to proclaim that life belongs to us and we followed the trail of Commander Chavez, who taught us that there is nothing that can distract us from taking power as a people," she said. This conference, organized by the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture, is carried out in the framework of the Year of Conuco and the International Decade for People of African Descent, decreed by the Organization of the United Nations (UN), in order to protect the rights people of African descent. www.albaciudad.org
There is no political crisis in Venezuela as the national and international right has tried to show. "They are saying that there is political crisis in Venezuela, I am here and I do not see it. I do not see people hungry. Even yesterday I went to Plaza Bolivar when people came to power and I saw the spirit of the people,’’ she said.
With relation to the thoughts of the Kenyan activist, we identify an extract from the article: ‘‘ The Cry of Mother Earth! Call to the First Ecosocialist International’’
Ecosocialism is one of the voices which responds to the cry of Mother Earth, one among many convocations which emerge from our territories. Ecosocialism is a calling in which many others are evoked and resound; one of the many ways to name the pain of Mother Earth, which claims us, names us, and challenges us to change.
The defender of peace also expressed her hopes for coming to Venezuela have been met, since she had the opportunity through this visit to make a spiritual bond with our people. " I bring with me the spirit of Kenya, 26
Guaja/Monte Carmelo, Sanare, Lara, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela October 28th, 2016
Ministry of People’s Bolivarian Government Power for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela 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).
Congratulates the Republic of Kenya ON THE 53RD INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS
12th December ‘‘ Kenya, a country that fought emblematic battles to achieve its independence.’’
Ministry of People’s Bolivarian Government Power for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela 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).
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Thomas Sankara (1949 - 1987) At 67 years of his birth we reclaim his thoughts ‘‘...Our struggle for independence and the well being of our people is marked by insubordination and the plunder they make of our wealth is called civilization work.’’
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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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“Let us form in our children a heart for the beautiful, for the great, for the path of the good homeland. ” Hugo Chávez
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