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After Twelve Years, the Bolivarian Government Has Increased Social FRIDAY February 11, 2011 Year 1 Nº 4 ENGLISH EDITION “Facts, Facts, and more Facts” After twelve years, the Bolivarian Government has increased social Investment five times reaching a total amount of US $ 330,582,000,000 2 Friday, February 11, 2011 ENGLISH EDITION ENGLISH EDITION Friday, February 11, 2011 3 CHRONICLES OF OUR EVERYDAY REVOLUTION A range Absolute and tangible presence of the people From messenger of possibilities The People- the raison d’être of the Bolivarian Revolution that started in 1999- have become, for the last twelve years, leaders of a to treasurer dramatic and wide-reaching change. The People have a say: Jesús is part of the cleaning staff in one of the branches of the Bicenten- nial Markets chain, and he claims the ority. We have [also] amplified our company has completely changed its customer service capabilities. Ever policy in the economic and human since the Bank of Venezuela ab- areas: “We didn’t use to get paid for Strong faith sorbed the clients of former “Ban- working overtime, our salary was low- Will at full sail co Federal” our 18 cashiers receive er, and now everything is different.” in solidarity between 3,500 and 4,000 clients he says with the typical optimism of a daily.” young person. He highlights that now 23-year-old Jesús Granados lived all workers have the opportunity to in El Valle (Southern Caracas) and Yadira claims she had no idea what After the nationalization of the study and to be promoted. Fortunately, by 2010 the social- Elvis Quintero started working worked in Montalbán (northern would have happened if “the trag- Bank of Venezuela, the customer oriented factory Pescalba was in the bank as a messenger and Caracas). Jesús could barely study edy had occurred under a differ- service capacity has increased 31%, The 35 markets of the Socialist Net- opened in the area and Luis was now he’s the treasurer at the Bank and cover the overtime demanded ent Government”. Today, she and deposit taking capacity 84.1%, and work of Bicentennial Markets nation- absorbed as a permanent worker. of Venezuela main offices. After from his former boss at the CADA other 336 families, who joined her the credit performance 52.2%, wide seek for the transformation of graduating as a computing techni- Supermarket due to the distance in her struggle, live in a housing and they have also incorporated the speculative system through a fair- Luis Roque used to work for a pri- Since then his life has signifi- cian, he was promoted. between the two places. But now Yadira Merentes, a survivor of the development complex called Soli- 52 new offices and 200 ATMs. Be- er commercial offer, and by strength- vate contractor of sea food process- cantly changed. He now gets all the CADA Supermarket is a Bicen- 1999 Vargas mudslides, did not daridad (Solidarity) located in Ca- sides these, 31 communal banks ening the strategies of the Bolivarian ing at the dock of Cumana Port. the benefits according to the law, He says that the new vision of the tennial Market (Abasto Bicentena- hesitate to put her name on the tia La mar. have been installed in popular ar- Government to assure the food secu- bank is to have people as “a pri- list of home-needy people. “I al- thus improving his quality of life: eas with the goal of reaching 200. rio in Spanish). rity of Venezuelans. He earned a meager wage. After “Thanks to God I was given this ways had great faith in the Presi- So far, 2,380 housing solutions having a terrible accident at work, opportunity, because I had no dent Chavez’ promises”. That have been provided to families af- where he lost his right arm, his means to support my family. faith helped Merentes gather 75 fected by the heavy rains in 2010. value as a laborer diminished. The CANTV’s support to social activities families from different districts With close cooperation from the company abandoned him com- That is why I thank Pescalba for The Bicentennial Markets of the state: Naiguatá, Caraballe- People’s Republic of China, Russia, went from BsF 145 million (US $ pletly. As a result he was forced to making me feel useful and for ev- Network sold over BsF 2.8 billion da, Maiquetía, Catia La Mar, and and Byelorussia, 150,000 houses 40,000) before its nationalization to beg in public places. Luis became erything they still do for me. That La Guaira and organize a com- will be built within the next two BsF one billion (US$250,000) (US$ 700,000) another victim of the voracity of is why I’m still here. I’ll keep mov- munitarian commission for hous- years; 70,000 of them have al- the capitalist system. ing on”. ing restoration and construction. ready been built. No impediments for A weekend those who want to study A call to serve for a smile Mothers an says. She is a mother, a grandmoth- with Propertiesz er, and a social fighter. After retiring, you see how they go home with a Felicia signed up for Misión Ribas smile on their faces and very excited For me, it’s an honor to carry the (social education program for high to take the Canaima computer with UNES ID card, the cap, and the badge school studies) and has not stopped them. The weekend is worth it”. because this way we are making the ever since. “We were the fourth group Mission Mothers of the Neighbor- difference. I do believe in this police. which graduated from this Misión and hood is not just about a monthly I know it’s a high-risk job, but I’d do I immediately started Misión Sucre. Miguel Villegas is just one of the The Canaima program equips pub- Mairelis Ceballos’ life changed dra- payment of US$ 250, but it also pre- anything for my country”. I got this year an Advanced Techni- hundreds of workers from CANTV lic schools with laptops, each one of matically when she decided to become pares the women in the area of social cal Degree in Social Management for (National Telephone Company) who them with educational software, so a social fighter through a social pro- production projects. Marelis, along Alejandra Noriega, a student at the The Bolivarian National Police (PNB Local Empowering, and I’ll keep on work hard as volunteer to deliver that children get used to new forms of gram entitled Misión Madres del Bar- with other women, is ahead of the Experimental National College for Spanish Acronym) started in 2009 studying until I get my undergraduate computers in the Bolivarian Schools technology from early age. 525,000 rio (Mothers of the Slum). She intend- textile production factory Manuelita Security (UNES Spanish Acronym), and involved 952 officers, reaching Felicia Huice, a 66-year-old inhabit- diploma”. as part of the Educational Project Ca- computers were handed in 2010. ed to help herself and other women to Saenz located in Aragua State. In the claims that her goal of becoming 4,222 officers in 2010 out of which ant of San Agustin parish in Caracas, She never misses a chance to say naima. He’s glad to do the job. Company CANTV-Movilnet recorded transcend their own limitations.“Since same place Marelis teaches disabled part of the Venezuela´s National 718 were women. The operations recently graduated as a technician that “under the Bolivarian Revolution, a 134% increase of both fixed and 2006, my life has turned into a con- boys and girls to sew “so that they Police force draws closer everyday. carried out by the National Police, from Misión Sucre (social program those who don’t study, it is because “You cannot compare this activity to mobile phone lines. This represents stant struggle for the rights of women grow up being useful people”. The “Being admitted in the College is side by side with the community, in of education). they don’t want to. That’s why I want anything else; you have to experi- a figure of 14,056,936 subscribers of with any sort of disability. Any time I Mission provides technical prepa- already an achievement, but gradu- the Sucre parish on the west side of the education programs to continue, ence seeing these kids awake since mobile lines and 5,894,876 subscrib- hug them, or I spend time with them, ration for work to housewives who ating is my next goal. We have got- Caracas --7,000 inhabitants area-- “The missions suit me perfectly, be- so that more opportunities to study early in the morning, some of them ers of fixed lines by the end of 2010. I feel this is nothing but social work,” need it the most. Today the mission ten the chance to study in order to reduced homicides rates to 44% in cause when I was younger, though I are provided for those who couldn’t even slept wearing their uniforms Additionally, the amount of Internet Ceballos said. benefits 100,000 people. become good officers. less than a year. wanted to study, I couldn’t,” this wom- do it in the past”. in order to be the first ones. Then users was of 1,461,915. 4 Friday, February 11, 2011 ENGLISH EDITION ENGLISH EDITION Friday, February 11, 2011 5 THE THREE -ROOTS THREE BLOSSOMS Better alone than with DEA The largest classroom in the world 17 Achievements Pre-school 1.543.660 Elementary School 3.431.920 14 14 High School 2.259.862 + Captured and Extradited Drug Lords by the dozen University and College 2.500.000 54 Total Students = 9.735.442 5 The ideas left by Simon Bolivar, Simon Rodriguez and 4 Ezequiel Zamora allow us to create a revolutionary conscience that let us achieve great goals in our 0 search for freedom, inclusion, and equality.
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