Following its closure last weekend, La Planta prison in Caracas is to be converted into a community centre using proposals from local community organisations.
The Washington Post has highlighted a global happiness survey released last year by the polling firm Gallup, which found that Venezuela is the fifth happiest country in the world. According to the poll, 64 percent of Venezuelan respondents said their well-being was thriving.
During a telephone call from Cuba last Saturday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the government would carry out an “economic revolution” within the coming years as he approved more funds for the industrial development of the country.
Recently returned President Hugo Chavez addressed thousands of supporters on Saturday on the importance of the coming Venezuelan presidential elections and his state of health. Meanwhile, workers handed over 6,000 proposals to be integrated into the proposed new Labour Law.
President Hugo Chavez will return home to Venezuela within the next few days where he will begin a course of radiotherapy, he confirmed in a state program broadcast from Havana last night. On Friday and Saturday thousands marched around the country to support him.
Yesterday a range of Venezuela’s scientists, innovators, and researchers met in the Institute of Advanced Studies (IDEA) in Caracas to share their most recent projects, including new telescopes, stem cell research, and nutritional innovation, with the public. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also allocated funding to allow for a pay increase for researchers.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez announced that he is “optimistic” about his cancer diagnosis after he flew to Cuba last week for surgery on an abdominal lesion in the same site where he was diagnosed with the disease last year.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced his good physical condition and quick recovery to the nation in a live telephone conversation today with Venezuelan state channel VTV, following his operation on Monday this week.
An initial government statement reports that an operation on President Hugo Chavez on a lesion in the same area where he had a cancerous tumour removed last year, has been successful. Nevertheless, private media, using the recently leaked Stratfor emails, are announcing he has just one or two years to live.
Venezuela has a population of 27, 150, 095 inhabitants, reported the preliminary results of the 14th national census on population and housing, informed the president of the National Statistics Institute Elias Eljuri on Thursday.
Yesterday Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that he would require another operation, this time to extract a lesion from the pelvic region of his body. Opposition spokespeople and international press have speculated about the seriousness of the surgery, suggesting “uncertainty” before the presidential elections.
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.
