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Weekly Newsletter of the Bolivarian Republic of N° 34. March 02, 2017 Vice President Tarek El Aissami responds to US accusations , February 22, 2017 (MPPRE) .- The Executive The letter highlights the progress realized between 2008 Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and 2012 in the fight against drug cartels, the transnational Tareck El Aissami, issued a letter today through New business of illicit drug trafficking and its logistical structures. York Times newspaper, in which he responds to the ac- "Between those years, Venezuelan anti-drug authorities un- tions of the Department of Treasury of the United der my leadership arrested, imprisoned and brought to jus- States of America against him. tice, in Venezuela and in the countries that requested them, 102 heads of criminal drug trafficking organizations. From The letter to Treasury Secretary, , high- all the heads captured, 21 were expeditiously deported to lights how the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) the United States and 36 to Colombia ..." has manipulated the information provided to Mnuchin, highlighting that the US politician "has been deceived "There is much that you should investigate before endorsing by political sectors, lobbyists and interest groups in the a false and reckless accusation, crafted by bureaucrats and United States, whose fundamental interest is to prevent anti-Venezuelan interest groups, that sets a dangerous prec- the United States and Venezuela from rebuilding their edent in the relationship between sovereign nations," writes political and diplomatic relations on the basis of mutual El Aissami; "The decision of 120 countries to reject these ille- recognition and respect. " gal measures against Venezuela is a clear indication of the serious error that constitutes the unilateral action and the El Aissami warns that the groups interested in under- opposition of the mining the US-Venezuela relationship "have no evi- international law dence to validate the very serious accusations that committed by the have been imputed to me (...) they have built a false North American positive case to criminalize - through me - the Govern- administration." ment of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a nation that holds a frontal and transparent battle against the transnational business of drug trafficking." Chancellor Rodriguez denounced in the UN illegitimate forms of appropriation of resources of the States Geneva, February 28, 2017 The minister said that "warfare is another form of ap- (MPPRE) .- The Minister of propriation," and said that by 2015 military expenditure Popular Power for Foreign in the world amounted to $ 1.7 trillion. Affairs of the Bolivarian Re- The capitalist model prevents the human being from public of Venezuela, Delcy being placed at the center of the humanist model, since Rodríguez, today denounced its interest is to generate wealth in an unequal way. commercial controversies and armed conflicts as forms of "Eight people have the wealth of half the world's popu- violation of international law by the capitalist model, for lation, and the five largest companies in the world, reg- the "illegitimate appropriation of the resources of sovereign istered in 2016, the equivalent income of 180 countries," States". added the Venezuelan Foreign Minister. th In her intervention at the 34 Regular Period of Sessions of She also denounced that Venezuela has been considered the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, the Vene- as an objective for the application of these coercive, uni- zuelan Foreign Minister said that in the period 1995-2005 lateral, illicit measures that violate the Public Interna- large transnational companies won 60% of the controver- tional Law. sies against the States, by appropriating their property.

Made by the Institute of Strategic Research on Africa and its Diaspora, “Centre of African, American and Caribbean Kno- wledge” www.saberesafricanos.net CUMBE PAGE 2 Venezuela ratifies support for peace and Al-Qaeda wins its first Oscar independence of Palestine By misionverdad.com

February 24, 2017 The most important event in the American cultural (MPPRE). - The presi- industry (the Oscars) honored the history of the Syrian dent of the Bolivarian White Helmets as the best short documentary. This Republic of Venezuela, short documentary was used to promote the nomina- Nicolás Maduro Moros, tion of the Syrian Helmets to the Nobel Peace prize reaffirmed this Friday last year. the support of this South This NGO of pretended rescuers in areas of the Syrian American country for conflict was founded in 2013, in Turkey by James Le peace and independ- Mesurier, former senior British official and high repre- ence of the State of Palestine, after holding a meeting at the sentative of the UN during the war of Bosnia and Ko- Palace of Miraflores with Foreign Minister Riad Malki. sovo. Le Mesurier was also part of military contractors The Prime Minister emphasized the need to promote an ef- Olive Security and Good Harbor International. The first fective negotiation to ensure respect for the right of Pales- is related to Blackwater (now Academy), famous for tine to have a State, territory and independence. "It is a its massacres against the civilian population in Iraq. world cause, it is a worldwide acclaim, in our America, Eu- The second was led by Richard Clark, former security rope, Africa, Asia and beyond. The Palestine cause is a pend- adviser to George W. Bush. ing clamor”, he emphasized. These so-called rescuers make no effort to hide their For his part, Foreign Minister Riad Malki reiterated his grati- sympathy for Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (the name of Al- tude to the Government and people of Venezuela for their Qaeda in ). Neither they hide their festivities support of the Palestinian Cause: "I have not seen more re- when this terrorist organization or the Islamic State flection of solidarity and support for the Cause of Palestine in takes a city, going so far as to participate in executions any country of the world than as here, that’s why I feel perpetrated by the armed jihadists. To such an extent proud and I want to continue working for that relationship is their involvement in the conflict in favor of terrorism, that we have established between Venezuela and Palestine. which shows Syrian soldiers killed as trophies of war. The White Helmets also participated in the staging of President Maduro congratulates SADR on the rescue of the Syrian boy Omran Daqneesh in Sep- its 41st anniversary of its independence tember 2016, who was used for a viral propaganda operation to manipulate public opinion about alleged The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, bombings against Syrian civilians commanded by Rus- Nicolás Maduro Moros, on behalf of the Government and the sia and Bashar Al-Assad, in a clear display of advertis- Venezuelan people, congratulates the Sahrawi Arab Demo- ing morbidity. cratic Republic, on commemorating the forty-first anniver- sary of their independence, in which day the Saharawi peo- White Helmets operate in areas taken by "moderate ple Emancipated from all foreign power. rebels" and al-Qaeda militants, demonstrating who they work for in the end. Their orchestrated and pre- It is the greatest interest of Venezuela to continue advocate prepared rescues also serve a strategic military func- in the multilateral instances and from the chairmanship of tion: to sensitize public opinion to stop the Syrian army the Decolonization Committee for the respect and applica- and its allies from bombing and so Al-Qaeda can tion of the United Nations Arrangement Plan for the decolo- withdraw and protect itself from casualties on the nization of Western Sahara. ground. They are his press office and propaganda bar- We echo the words of Commander Hugo Chávez Frías when racks. he said: "Venezuela supports and recognizes the Sahrawi His Oscar nomination is an accolade from the financial Arab Democratic Republic, and we will continue to support elite (and his political advertising apparatus, Holly- it by raising our voice in all international forums in defense of wood) to terrorism in Syria. They boost their image, this noble, brave brotherly people fighting for their legiti- legitimate it before public opinion and try to shield the mate Rights to freedom and independence. " credibility of this vital NGO to generate anti-Syrian and anti-Russian humanitarian propaganda at a key moment of the conflict. More than a prize of consola- tion is a frontal support to the assassins of the Syrian nation, a call for the war to continue.

ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION The revolution intensified the fight against drugs, Venezuela being declared by the UN as a territory free of illicit crops N° 34. MARCH 02, 2017 PAGE 3 Venezuela celebrates Carnival with successful deployment of security This Wednesday, President via his Twitter account. when more than 8 Recently, a security device was activated, in which more million 249,000 than 182,000 officials from the State security agencies, the people were mobi- Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), the Caracas lized for tourism General Staff and the ministries for Youth and Tourism purposes through- security were deployed in the country, in order to ensure out the country, the comprehensive security for the people. President of the During the weekend, the XIII Sports, Recreational and Republic, Nicolás Cultural Festival of Beaches was held in 141 places, where Maduro, celebrated the success of the deployment of secu- 11,700 activities of integral prevention, solidarity and rity during the Carnival holiday. peace were carried out, with the participation of more "Carnival 2017: Total Success! Thanks to everyone and to than 3,000 representatives and 6,000 volunteers serving all who made it possible: representatives, police, military, a population of more than 3 million 258 thousand people. firefighters, artists and so on. Venezuela lives, "said the The Vice minister for Africa gives lecture at the Military Academy Caracas, 23rd February, 2017 (MPPRE).- "The reason why the attended by approximately 800 cadets, representa- imperial powers constantly attack the countries of our region tives of the Solidarity Movement "Puente Sur - is because they feel affected by its capitalist interests," said Diplomacy from the People "and the Commander of the Vice Minister for Africa, Reinaldo Bolivar, during a paper the Corps of Cadets, Colonel Jose Gregorio Martinez presentation presented to a large group of cadets of the Mil- Campos, who at the end of the presentation gave itary Academy of the Bolivarian Army. Vice Minister Reinaldo Bolivar a statuette with the figure of a cadet of the institution. During the presentation titled "The Thick Lines of Foreign Policy of the Countries of the World", Vice Minister Reinaldo Bolivar, made a historic tour of important events that de- fined the current shape of the international system, thus re- ferring to the bipolar system and the implantation Of unilat- eralism, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the disso- lution of the socialist block and the Soviet Union in 1991, as well as the subsequent emergence of multilateralism and pluri-polarity, which led to the emergence of different poles of power. The activity that took place within the framework of the "Revolutionary Debates" program, which takes place every Wednesday in the campus of the military university, was

CEMAC Summit takes place in Equatorial Guinea six member countries agreed to Pro Tempore Presidency of this apply the free movement of per- important regional integration sons and goods in the CEMAC mechanism, made up of Gabon, Community to anyone who has a Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Came- national identity document and / roon, Central African Republic and or biometric passport. Chad. Also, It was agreed to relocate the This achievement has been made headquarters of CEMAC in Bangui, possible not only by the political capital of the Central African Re- will of the member countries, but The 13th Summit of the Economic and public. Similarly, they elected Dan- also by the boost given by the Afri- Monetary Community of Central Africa iel Ona Ondo, the former Prime can Union to support policies such (CEMAC) was held last February 17 in Minister of Gabon, as President of as the issuance of a common Afri- Djibloho, Equatorial Guinea, where the CEMAC Commission for a period of can passport. five years, while Chad assumes the