The new Venezuela social network, called Plaxed, which allows streams of short posts (200 characters), as well as event invitations, polls, and questions, was created as an alternative site so that files or personal details found on the network “aren’t blocked, erased, or followed” by U.S laws, said its creator, Cesar Cotiz, a systems engineer student.
The Venezuelan vice minister for health services networks, José España, said that by May of next year, the country will be operating pharmaceutical plants in order to guarantee medicines supplies to the population.
According to preliminary data collected in the 2011 National Census of Population and Habitat, the president of Venezuela’s National Institute of Statistics, Elias Eljuri, said the national population has likely increased from 27 million to 28.5 million inhabitants.
Thousands of Venezuelan youth took to the streets of Caracas on Friday last week to demonstrate their desire for peace and support government measures calling for an end to the use of firearms in the streets of the South American country.
95,912 houses and apartments have been built in the first seven months of Venezuela’s massive house building program, the “Great Housing Mission” (GMV), confirmed energy and petroleum minister Rafael Ramirez yesterday.
Musicians from Cuba and Venezuela performed at an event to wish Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez good health in the Casa del Alba Cultural in Havana, the official AIN news agency reported.
On Thursday those involved in the fight against price speculation in Venezuela held an educational forum in Caracas to help consolidate the 500 popular “Committees against Speculation” established to support government efforts against unfair pricing practices.
This past Thursday, hundreds of activists involved in Venezuela’s popular movement mobilised for the immediate re-creation of the “Patriotic Pole”; a coalition that would unite all of the political forces that support the Bolivarian Revolution.
On Thursday Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the creation of the country’s National Public Works Company, a new government institution aimed at managing and maintaining all publicly-owned construction equipment.
From 29 to 31 of July, the Fourth National Meeting of Commune Members was held in the municipality of Torres, state of Lara, with over 300 delegates representing some 70 communes from 13 of Venezuela's states.
Opposition legislators of the Venezuelan National Assembly recently argued that Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua should replace Chavez as president, after emergency medical surgery forced Chavez to extend his stay in Cuba. The opposition was especially angered on Wednesday after Chavez enacted a law from the carribbean nation.
Saturday Venezuelan and Cuban social movement activists marched in Caracas demanding that U.S. president Barack Obama extradite Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela on terrorist charges and that he release the Cuban Five.
Around ten thousand people marched in Caracas on Sunday to protest the sanctions by the U.S. on Venezuela’s state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) for trading with Iran.
Caracas-based Radio del Sur suffered a shake up this week after Venezuela’s Minister of Communication and Information replaced the station’s president in what workers there described as a reprisal for having aired “the exercise of self-criticism” in the aftermath of Venezuela’s controversial deportation to Colombia of alternative media activist Joaquin Pérez Becerra.
