Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs Weekly Newsletter / August 13th 2021

TOPIC OF THE WEEK This set of actions will be accompanied by the Actions underway to strengthen Public Procurement Law that will be presented to the National Assembly, in order to guarantee that national production State purchases are directed, in the first place, to internal production. Also, the stimuli for small and The Higher Council of the Economy (CSE in Spanish) the Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez. medium industry are maintained. creates the new national productive map, essential After the first balance of activities carried out by Thus, the joint interest in building a new economy in the policy of strategic and gradual import substi- the CSE, she said that the tax exemption will be is reaffirmed, which meets the needs of the tution, with producers from various sectors. Among maintained to import 59 products whose inter- population and overcomes the limitations imposed the first actions, President Nicolás Maduro ordered nal production is not enough to satisfy the na- by the Unilateral Coercive Measures, the misnamed the elimination of the exemption from tariffs on tional market. “sanctions,” and the economic, financial and com- 597 imported products. In this regard, the Council evaluated the production mercial blockade against the country. The goal of this decision is to protect the national of corn, oilseeds, rice, sugar and coffee, to define “Venezuela can produce, it can advance despite the market, stimulate competitiveness in these areas, the areas in which imports will be substituted and criminal blockade against our country,” emphasized “expand potential, create jobs, save foreign ex- those in which the tax exemption to import must the Vice President. change” and recover the income of workers, said be maintained. Photo: Courtesy

the digitization of the currency. Towards the Digital Bolívar The entry into force of the Digital Bolívar As of October 1, the Digital Bolívar will come commercial activity electronically, as part of the includes the circulation of a new family of into effect, a new monetary expression that actions to recover and stabilize the economy. banknotes, to facilitate transactions where applies a scale in which six zeros will be re- It is “a policy also aimed at consolidating our the use of electronic payment channels is moved from the national currency to facilitate national currency,” said Vice President Delcy more limited. In addition, the corresponding commercial transactions. In addition, it will Rodríguez, who added that progress has been operational adjustments are coordinated with contribute to the development of banking and made in updating technological platforms for the national banking system. IN THIS EDITION DIPLOMACY REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS BEATS OF OUR PEOPLE • 10-year cooperation plan • Olympic celebration • Milestone in popular participation NEWS BRIEF UNBLOCK HEROIC ROOTS • Mexico: scenario for dialogue • Behind the “sanctions” • Andes Campaign CAPSULES OF IDEAS VENEZUELA IN IMAGES UNCOVERING FAKE NEWS • “... Being an internationalist ...” • New Neighborhood, Tricolor Neighborhood • Mercenaries and lies August 13th 2021 / Page 2

DIPLOMACY NEWS BRIEF

Government of Venezuela ready for dialogue in Mexico The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, confirmed that his country will host the dialogue between the Government of Venezuela and the opposition: “What we are looking for is for dialogue and agreements be- tween the parties (...) hopefully an agreement Venezuela and Iran strengthen will be reached.” For his part, the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, reported that the Government is ready 10-year cooperation plan for the talks, with 7 items on the agenda that are The Venezuelan Sectoral Vice President and The Sectoral Vice President and the Vice-Minister for being discussed, and that soon the place and date Minister of Planning, Ricardo Menéndez, and the Asia, Middle East and Oceania, Capaya Rodríguez, of the meeting will be announced. President of Iran, Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, ratified the represented Venezuela at the inauguration of “We believe in dialogue as the way, as the way willingness to strengthen bilateral cooperation to President Raisi. to listen to and understand each other. Since face the Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCM) that Both countries have agreed to a 10-year plan, with I have been President, the words I have men- affect both nations. scientific, technological and health projects, among tioned the most are dialogue, understanding Venezuela and Iran “have common interests others. Our nations are united by “the antiimperialist and unity,” he said. and enemies, but with perseverance it has vision, the defense of humanity, life on the planet He explained that there are 4 demands in the been demonstrated that we can frustrate the and the principles promulgated by the United dialogue: lifting of unilateral coercive measures, conspiracies of global imperialism,” said the Nations,” said Minister Menéndez, co-president of the misnamed “sanctions,” against Venezuela; “recog- Iranian Head of State, after meeting in Teheran Iran-Venezuela High-Level Joint Commission. nition of the legitimate authorities” of the country; with Minister Menéndez. Photo: Courtesy that the opposition renounces violence, and “that all oppositions be incorporated.” St. Lucia and Photo: Courtesy Venezuela open Diplomatic relations new relationship era with Tuvalu The new Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Philip Pierre, For the first time in its history, Venezuela- es reaffirmed the intention to strengthen ties with tablished diplomatic relations with Tuvalu, Venezuela. “It is a hope to recover the amicable rela- an island country located in the Pacific. The tionship that St. Lucia and Venezuela had some time ambassadors to the UN of Venezuela, Samu- ago,” he said after a meeting with the Venezuelan announced the withdrawal of St. Lucia from the in- el Moncada, and of Tuvalu, Samuelu Laloniu, Vice-Minister for the Caribbean, Raúl Li Causi. terfering Lima Group, under U.S. tutelage. signed an act to seal the ties of cooperation Pierre sent in a video his greetings to President Meanwhile, Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge and friendship. Nicolás Maduro, whom he valued as a “good friend of Arreaza, welcomed this new era of relations: “We St. Lucia” and emphasized that the new government are resuming relations of respect, non-interference, Rejection of violence respects the sovereignty of each country. In this solidarity, neighborliness and affection.” in Saint Vincent and sense, its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alva Baptiste, Photo: Courtesy the Grenadines CAPSULES OF IDEAS In a statement, Venezuela reiterated its com- mitment to peace and condemned the vio- “To be an internacionalist is to pay our own lent acts in which the Prime Minister of Saint debt to humanity. Whoever is not capable of fighting Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, was wounded in the vicinity of that coun- for others, will never be sufficiently try’s parliament. “Venezuela enhances the able to fight for himself.” democratic principles that have characterized the Vincentian people and vows that such Fidel Castro, La Habana, December 5, 1988 regrettable situations will not be repeated.”

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UNBLOCK REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS

Names behind Venezuela celebrates its best Olympic the design performance and prepares for Paris 2024 of extortion Full of gratitude, the people received part of the dele- and the karate fighter Claudymar Garcés, winners gation that achieved in Tokyo 2020+1 the best Olympic of olympic diplomas. Antonio Díaz, olympic diplo- “sanctions” performance of Venezuela, with one gold and three ma in karate; Daniel Dhers, silver medal in BMX silver medals, six Olympic diplomas, one World record, Freestyle Cycling, and Yulimar Rojas, olympic tri- Little or nothing is said about those who one Olympic record and seven national records. ple jump champion with a world record, will soon design, develop, and implement U.S. coercive Upon landing from a state-owned Conviasa plane, arrive in the country. measures. They are high-profile academic escorted by aircraft of the Bolivarian Military The President congratulated the delegation, which professionals, who accompany military Aviation, these representatives of the Golden to qualify for Tokyo overcame the difficulties commanders and officials of the administration Generation, as Commander Hugo Chávez called generated by the blockade, and announced the on duty in Washington, with the responsibility our athletes, proceeded in a caravan from the state Paris 2024 Olympic Dream plan. He instructed to of knowing the profile, history and culture of of La Guaira to Caracas, accompanied by thousands resume sports massification, through tools such the “enemy” to guide the “correct” application of people on the way. as the Barrio Adentro Deportivo Mission, de- of the sanctioning strategy. At the Miraflores Palace, President Nicolás Maduro vised by Commander Chávez, recover sports fa- A recent investigation by Sures Organization bestowed the “Francisco de Miranda” order on cilities, provide international training to coaches, presents the case of Richard Nephew, a U.S. Olympic weightlifters Julio Mayora and Keidomar comprehensive assistance to the athlete and official who currently holds the position of Vallenilla, who said: “We want this to be an example reactivate the National Games at the end of 2021. Deputy Special Envoy for Iran, and has an for young people who are on the rise.” “We are going to take advantage of the beauty of extensive academic background at Columbia Also recognized were the weightlifters Yusleidy this Olympic delegation... to give a special boost to University. Figueroa and Naryuri Pérez, the pole vaulter sport,” said the Head of State. Sures’ work, A Look at the Regime of Extortion Robeilys Peinado, the judoka Anriquelis Barrios Photo: Courtesy Sanctions against Venezuela from Richard Nephew, shows the architect of the “sanctions” applied against Iran between 2011 and 2013. Nephew defines himself as a “professional” in the field, advising U.S. policymakers on the “effective” application of these extortion tools. He explains this in The Art of Sanctions: A Look from the Ground (2017). The “sanctions,” he says, seek to generate suffering, pain, so that the target of the measures changes behavior. In an article published in July 2020, he analyzes the sanctioning prescription against Venezuela in 2017-2020. It concludes that it was “reasonably well organized” and consis- tent with America’s main objective, namely regime change. In a description of the strategies of economic VENEZUELA IN IMAGES suffocation and reputational damage against our country, he acknowledges that Washington Barrio Nuevo, Barrio Tricolor devotes great efforts to the improvement of Barrio Nuevo, Barrio Tricolor (New Neighborhood, this social program which already exceeds 1.5 “sanctions,” which have become the main Tricolor Neighborhood) is a plan created in 2009 by million recovered homes. The goal for 2021 is to instrument of U.S. foreign policy for the conquest Commander Hugo Chávez to rehabilitate and up- rehabilitate another 300,000 and to promote more of the objectives of its ruling class. grade houses and other infrastructures in popular organization to build the communal cities. Photo: Courtesy zones. In 2013, President Nicolás Maduro boosted Photo: Courtesy

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HEROIC ROOTS

BEATS OF OUR PEOPLE Primary elections of the Psuv, a Andes landmark in popular participation Campaign, In 2007, Commander Hugo Chávez set out to which will be elected in alliance with the political establish the biggest political party of Venezuela, parties of the Great Patriotic Pole. Bolívar’s based on popular organization. This is how the “The Psuv is setting an example of direct democracy, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Psuv), was participative democracy and real democracy,” amazing founded 14 years ago. And last August 8 this party stated the President of the party, Nicolás Maduro, chose in open primary elections its candidates for who considered the process as historical “in the military strategy 23 governorates and 335 municipalities that will run phase that opens up for Venezuela in 2021, for the The Liberator Simón Bolívar never spared for the November 21 elections. consolidation of peace and political dialogue.” efforts to put an end to the oppression of All members of the party as well as all Venezuelans A total of 3.5 million voters participated in the 5,108 the Spanish crown in South America. One registered in the electoral registry were called voting centers installed by the National Electoral Coun- example was the Andes Campaign, a 65-day to vote. The lists of pre-candidates were made cil (CNE in Spanish), which opened at 5 a.m. on Sunday journey through inhospitable roads under after holding elections on June 27 in the popular and went on with long queues until dawn on Monday. unfavourable weather conditions, which cul- assemblies of 14,300 Bolívar-Chávez units, groups The registration of candidates for regional and munici- minated in the successful Battle of Boyacá, of militants in the territories. pal elections of November 21, before the CNE, began with which the freedom of New Granada (now For the selection of aspiring candidates norms this Monday and will go on until August 29. More than Colombia) was sealed, on August 7, 1819. like gender parity were applied and respected. 100 national and regional political parties will participate A year earlier, on August 15, 1818, Bolívar had The assemblies also allowed to choose the list of as well as organizations of indigenous communities. proclaimed in Angostura the end of the vice- pre-candidates for state and municipal legislators, Photo: Courtesy royalty of New Granada: “Granadians! The day of America has come, and no human power UNCOVERING FAKE NEWS can hold back the course of nature guided by the hand of Providence. Gather your efforts Government of Colombia to those of your brothers: Venezuela marches with me to liberate you.” exports mercenaries and lies Thus, the Andes Campaign, one of the greatest military feats of the continent, began on they Noam Chosmky warns that the mainstream Now, in the face of the global scandal over what 27th of May 1819, when Bolívar and the patriot media uses distraction to manipulate the happened in Haiti, the Colombian State and its army left El Mantecal, today Apure state in the masses. This old strategy is used by the propaganda apparatus - with the Minister of Venezuelan plains, towards New Granada. government of President Iván Duque, who is Foreign Affairs as the main spokesperson - have On New Granadian soil, Bolívar decides to cross attacking Venezuela to divert attention from its been activated to try to launder the reputation the inhospitable region of Páramo de Pisba, to repression of the Colombian people and its role of mercenaries involved in the assassination, the east of the Andean Mountain range, since in international criminal actions which constitutes a second crime against the the path was not guarded by enemy troops. This past 7th of July, 26 mercenaries noble Haitian people. This decision favoured the patriot triumph in formed and trained by Colombian military At the end of July, Venezuela asked the UN the battles of Gámeza and Pantano de Vargas, forces assassinated the President of Haiti, Security Council to investigate “mercenary to later be crowned with glory in the Battle of Jovenel Moïse, in Port-au-Prince. The case operations planned in the United States of Boyacá. bears similarities to an event that occurred America, by transnational organized crime Faced with the defeat of the royalist army, in Venezuela in 2004, when 153 Colombian structures to recruit, train and finance Viceroy Juan de Sánamo and his officers fled paramilitaries who intended to assassinate Colombian mercenaries for the commission disguised down the Magdalena River, leaving President Hugo Chávez were captured in of armed attacks, acts of terrorism, acts of behind fortunes and properties. On August 10, Caracas; when the objective failed, the me - aggression and assassination of Heads of the Liberator triumphantly entered Bogotá. dia agents were mobilized to trivialize the State and Government... for the purpose of Image: Courtesy mercenary operation. overthrowing governments.”

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