The Venezuelan government has responded to demands from flood refugees for a quicker solution to their housing problem after recent protests by refugee groups closed key highways in the capital Caracas.
On Wednesday, Venezuelans were shocked at the news of Attorney General and revolutionary lawyer Carlos Escarra’s abrupt death after suffering a heart attack earlier that morning.
The current Venezuelan government is to pursue a policy of more socialism, social justice and revolutionary, participatory democracy if successful in winning this year’s 2012 presidential elections, said President Hugo Chavez on Sunday.
The levels of malnutrition in children have decreased in recent years from 7.6% to 2.91%, thanks to food-focused missions and to the increase in access to subsidised food and drink. Growth levels in Venezuelan children have also increased stated Di Luca.
Over 27,500 Venezuelans have registered in the first two days of the government’s new Knowledge and Work mission, which aims to incorporate over 800,000 unemployed citizens into the labour market within the coming year.
Thousands of Venezuelans gathered outside the country's National Assembly (AN) on Saturday to hear President Chavez give his annual speech to the nation. Each year the Venezuelan president is obliged to give an "annual report" to the legislative body accounting for the management of his government and detailing its setbacks and achievements throughout the past year.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to his weekly talk show programme last night, after his cancer diagnosis in June last year caused it to be cancelled for over seven months. On the show Chavez argued that the claim brought by Exxon against Venezuela's PDVSA was "about imperialism".
Venezuela’s National Assembly (AN) began the 2012 - 2013 legislative period yesterday, electing legislator Diosdado Cabello of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) as the Assembly’s new president and head of the body’s directive council.
Venezuela's government has offered to pay for the removal of breast implants feared to be at risk of rupture. The implants, made by French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) had been imported illegally.
Thousands of revolutionary social movements marched in Caracas on Sunday in order to consolidate the formation of the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) – a broad front which comprises all of the popular organisations and political parties that support the advance of the Bolivarian Revolution. GPP activists proposed an "international pole" of movements to challenge "barbarous capitalism".
“2012 is going to be a decisive year. There will be various elections, including the presidential elections in October. That means that the manipulations, lies, and distortions by both Venezuelan and international private media will be even more intense than usual,” said VA writer Tamara Pearson.
The Minister of Venezuela’s recently established Penitentiary Service, Iris Varela, vowed to “transform prison centres” last week as she continued to advance the national census of the country’s jails.
Representatives of 11 countries from around Latin America and the world made their way to the Caribbean island of Margarita last weekend to promote travel and cultural exchange through their participation in Venezuela’s 6th annual International Tourism Convention (FITVEN).
