News: Bolivarian Project

Venezuelan Government Outlines Social and Economic Advances in Annual Report

Mar 1st 2013

Venezuelan vice-president Nicolas Maduro and ministers of the national executive outside the national assembly yesterday (Prensa

The Venezuelan government has highlighted social and economic gains made over the previous year in an annual report of government performance.

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Large Rally Remembers Venezuela's Caracazo, While Opposition Students Protest

Feb 27th 2013

Vice-president Nicolas Maduro speaking at the rally today (Prensa Miraflores)

Vice-president Nicolas Maduro spoke at a large and vibrant rally today in Caracas to mark the 24^th anniversary of the Caracazo, while a small group of opposition students protested in another part of Caracas.

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Application of Venezuela's Labor Law Advances

Feb 24th 2013

Labor Minister Maria Cristina Iglesias (Presidential Press)

Labor Minister Maria Cristina Iglesias announced this week that the Labor Ministry will be intensifying meetings with public sector and state-run companies in the upcoming weeks to ensure the correct application of the Labor Law for Workers.

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Chavez Returns to Venezuela

Feb 18th 2013

Supporters outside the Dr. Carlos Arvelo military hospital in Caracas, where Hugo Chavez will continue treatment after returning

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela in the early hours of this morning after over two months in Cuba recovering from cancer surgery.

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First Images Released of Venezuela’s Chavez since His Operation

Feb 15th 2013

The Venezuelan government has released the first photographs of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez since his cancer operation last 11 December.

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Venezuela’s Chavez Undergoing “Complex and Difficult” Treatments

Feb 14th 2013

Venezuela’s Vice President, Nicolás Maduro, announced yesterday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is undergoing “complex and difficult” treatments for his cancer.

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Venezuelan Government Officials Increasingly Confident on Chavez Recovery

Feb 4th 2013

Showing the document bearing Chavez’s signature, Vice President Maduro declared, “we have a president governing”. (AVN)

Venezuelan government officials have sent signals of increasing confidence about President Hugo Chavez’s successful recovery from his cancer operation last 11 December.

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United Socialist Party of Venezuela Announces Primary Elections

Jan 29th 2013

PSUV vice-president Diosdado Cabello announcing the party’s primary election procedures yesterday. (Ciudad CCS)

The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), will hold internal elections to choose its candidates for the mayoral and municipal council elections, to be held on 14 July.

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CELAC Strengthened by Second Annual Summit

Jan 29th 2013

Raul Castro (middle), the Cuban president and new president pro tempore of CELAC shakes hands with the previous one, Sebastian P

The recently formed Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met last weekend with the European Union (EU) for a Business Summit, before holding its own annual summit over Sunday and Monday.

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Chavez Overcomes Respiratory Infection, Venezuelan Government Says

Jan 28th 2013

Venezuelan minister of communication, Ernesto Villegas (VTV)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has beaten his respiratory infection and his recovery continues to be favourable, the Venezuelan government has reported.

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Census Figures Show Reduction in Poverty in Venezuela over Last Decade

Jan 25th 2013

Elías Eljuri, president of Venezuelan’s National Institute of Statistics (Informe21)

Representatives from Venezuela’s National Institute of Statistics (INE) officially revealed some of the most important conclusions from the 14th National Census of Population and Housing to the Venezuelan public this week.

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Huge March Defends Venezuela’s Democracy and Revolution

Jan 23rd 2013

A very small part of the Caracas march, with the barrio in the background (AVN).

The vice-president and ministers marched with up to a million people today to defend the Bolivarian revolution on Democracy Day, while the opposition march turned out to be a small rally. Further, sectors of the far right have called on the armed forces to resist what they referred to as the “invasion” of “Castro-communism” in Venezuela.

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Venezuelan Government: Chavez Recovery “Favourable”

Jan 14th 2013

Venezuelan minister of communication, Ernesto Villegas, read out the official announcement yesterday (VTV)

The Venezuelan government has described Chavez’s clinical progress as “favourable” in its latest update on the Venezuelan president’s recovery from his operation for cancer last month.

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Massive Rally in Venezuela to Support Absent Chavez on Inauguration Day

Jan 10th 2013

Tens of thousands of Chavez supporters filled the streets of Caracas on Thursday (AVN)

Tens of thousands of supporters gathered in Caracas today for a massive rally in support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and in response to the controversy surrounding his absence on the January 10^th inauguration day.

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