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Venezuela Happiest Country in South America

Jun 10th 2012

According to Columbia University's "happiness study," Venezuela is the happiest country in South America (Venezue

The University of Columbia’s “Earth Institute” has released the results of its first happiness report, which highlight Venezuela as the happiest country in South America and the second happiest country in the region after Costa Rica.

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Venezuelan Government and Communities See Urban Agriculture Increasing

May 9th 2012

Urban agriculture in Caracas (Patriagrande)

Venezuela’s urban agriculture program has seen urban communal and family based food gardens developing rapidly over the last two years, to a current total of 19,000. 

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Venezuelan Government Creates National Pharmacy Network, Invests in Construction Industry

May 3rd 2012

The new national pharmacy network will be called “Farmapatria” (Periodico24).

The Venezuelan government has announced that it will create a national network of low price pharmacies across the country in an attempt to combat the effect of inflation on the price of medicine for Venezuelan citizens.

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Venezuela’s Housing Mission on Track for 2012 Construction Target

Apr 27th 2012

Venezuela’s Great Housing Mission (GMVV) aims to construct 3 million new homes by 2019 (archive).

41,863 houses have been built so far this year as part of the Venezuelan government’s mass house construction program, equating to 21% of the 2012 aim of 200,000 new houses, according to the latest report from the government’s housing body.

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Venezuelan Government’s Mission Mercal Celebrates 9th Anniversary

Apr 27th 2012

The Venezuelan Government’s food security program Mission Mercal saw its 9 year anniversary last Sunday (MPPA).

Venezuela’s Food Minister Carlos Osorio highlighted last Sunday the role that the revolutionary government of President Hugo Chavez has played in ensuring food security to the nation by providing more than 10 million tons of important staples for the economically disadvantaged.

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National Study: New Book Culture Sees More Venezuelans Reading Regularly

Apr 24th 2012

Children receive free books at Venezuela’s annual book fair this year (AVN).

According to a Reading Behaviour Study conducted jointly by the National Book Centre, the Venezuelan Book Laboratory, and Goya Consultancy, 50.2% of Venezuela’s population are book readers, with a preference towards history, politics, and social issues.

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Venezuela’s Tree Mission Plants 45 Million Trees in 6 Years

Apr 23rd 2012

Environment minister Alejandro Hitcher inspecting some of the gathered seeds in Francisco de Miranda National Park (AVN).

Venezuelans participated in a national day of seed gathering to mark World Earth Day yesterday, while government figures and environmentalists highlighted the advances of the Venezuelan government’s Mision Arbol (Tree Mission) reforestation program.

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Venezuela’s Chavez: Informal Workers to Receive Social Security

Apr 23rd 2012

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (Prensa Presidencial)

Self-employed and informal sector workers in Venezuela are to be included in the nation’s social security system, following an announcement by President Hugo Chavez last Saturday.

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More than 1 Million Venezuelans Benefit from Land Reform Program

Apr 20th 2012

The Venezuelan government's new Mission Agro Venezuela program provides assistance to farmers willing to produce for the do

The President of Venezuela’s National Land Institute (INTI), Luis Motta Dominguez, affirmed that more than 224,000 families have benefited from redistributed farmlands made available through the Chavez administration’s agrarian reform program.

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9 Years of Venezuela’s Health Mission Sees 745,078,000 Consultations

Apr 17th 2012

Doctors yesterday at the inauguration of another Integral Rehabilitation Room in Miranda state (AVN).

Venezuela’s Barrio Adentro Health Mission now involves 12,898 Cuban and Venezuelan doctors, 4,595 dentists, 7,772 nurses, 6702 community medical surgeries, 551 medical diagnostic centres, 580 rehabilitation rooms, 33 high technology centres, and 459 optometrist centres, according to Vice-president Elias Jaua.

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8th Venezuelan International Book Fair Closes with Attendance Up

Mar 20th 2012

The Filven 2012 book fair saw a massive rise in attendance (YKVE Mundial).

Venezuela’s 8th Annual International Book Fair (Filven) closed on Sunday with record attendance, up over 20% from 2011. Between 9 and 18 March over 235,000 visitors attended the open cultural event, compared with 180,000 last year.

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Over 702,000 Venezuelans Register in Government's Work Program

Mar 19th 2012

(AVN)

A total of 36,401 people registered in the government’s Knowledge and Work mission as the final stage of the program’s registration phase got underway last week.  The latest recording brings the total of Venezuelans registered in the mission to 702,674, said the vice-president for the Economic-Productive Area, Ricardo Menendez.

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Venezuelan Government Hands out Traditional Musical Instruments as Part of Crime Prevention Strategy

Mar 14th 2012

Children receiving their musical instruments (Mpprij)

On Monday the Venezuelan government handed out 600 musical instruments to children from ten schools in Caracas, as part of a strategy to prevent crime, and bringing the number of instruments handed out so far to a total of 1,600.

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“Education for Liberation” – Venezuela’s New Work Mission Begins Training this Week

Mar 13th 2012

A Knowledge and Work Mission registration point (AVN)

Thousands of Venezuelans are to start work training this week, training which includes critical components and theoretical discussions, and hundreds will train in special education, as the government changes its policy towards inclusion of children with disabilities in the classroom.

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Venezuelan Scientific Achievements Aimed at Social Progress

Mar 7th 2012

Part of the exhibition of scientific achievements yesterday (AVN)

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.

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