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Contact a Newsletter About Venezuela’S National Oil Industry Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Caracas, January 2007 • N° 10 The New Contact A Newsletter about Venezuela’s National Oil Industry With the re-election of President Chávez Venezuela further energizes Latin American energy integration page 8 The Ribas Mission Petrocaribe PDVSA commited CITGO credit rating is Venezuela nominated continues to train is strengthned (II) to environmental Raised venue of 2007 Energy winners conservation Summit POPULAR POWER MINISTRY FOR ENERGY AND PETROLEUM The New The New PDVSA PDVSA Contact Contact SOWING THE OIL >> First fruits are being harvested Misión Ribas: training winners with a socialist spirit The Ribas Mission is a Project that arose as part of the further deepening of the revolutionary process headed by the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, who firmly believes in this educational program “which trains men guided by the socialist ethos”. he Ribas Mission was born three Under the slogan of “yesterday Independence, today Socialism, we winners accept the challenge”, the third anniversary of the RIbas Mission was celebrated in Maracaibo’s bull ring, in Zulia. Tyears ago with the clear vision of consolidating educational democracy the Ribas Mission has gathered Winners of the new homeland in Venezuela, thereby helping solve strength, consolidating an academic the problem of student exclusion from profile based on Socialist ethics and The number of Rivas Mission secondary education by means of morals. For the head of state, the graduates up until December 2005 the formation of integrally educated Mission’s educational model is aimed was 168,000 students. Then, in participants. This program developed at breaking the chains imposed by August 2006, another 250,000 since 17 November 2003, involves the old capitalist model. “It is not the graduated, for a total of 418,000 716,939 students. case of training a laborer to become winners, men and women, in a three- a skilled worker, so that he can year period. This total represents 58% Beginning with the guidelines continue to be exploited by capitalists”, of student population that heeded suggested by President Chávez, President. Chávez said, quoting Italian President Chávez’s original invitation. political philosopher Antonio Gramsci. Orlando Ortegano, president of the The purpose of the Ribas Mission Mission Ribas Foundation, feels is to open avenues towards the that “these figures highly satisfying liberation of the homeland through because they cover barely three an educational process based on years, and are one of the Mission’s enterprise, transformation and cutting main achievements”. When the chains. “The greatest power a country census undertaken to determine the can have is not based on oil, but on number of people excluded from an ethical and educated population”, the secondary education system, The Ribas Mission as produced 418,000 integrally President Chávez stated. Ortegano was faced with the fact that educated graduates since its creation by 1.4 million people had not completed President Chávez in 2003. their secondary education. 2 The New PDVSA Contact • January 2007 The New The New PDVSA PDVSA Contact Contact Productive Professionals We are truly very well prepared, With the Ribas Mission we can become “culturally as well as socially and economically productive professionals for our country. because, besides the knowledge obtained, This is an educational system adapted to we have been given the opportunity through the needs of all of us, without exclusions, PDVSA to work in cooperatives within the which is why we, as winners, must do our missions, and we are going to receive special very best, as President Chávez does for training for this purpose. Venezuela. ” Maryerin Luis Alcalá Winner. C.I. 15.752.928 - Valencia, Carabobo. Maryerin Alcalá, winner of the Valencia branch, of the It is for this reason that President oppressed, excluded but, as Ribas Mission in the State of Carabobo. “We are truly Chávez created the Productive Ribas Aquiles Nazoa said: ‘I believe in the well prepared”. Mission, which seeks to impart greater creative power of the people’. The The Ribas Mission has today more strength to the integration of students Ribas Mission’s integrally educated than 400,000 integrally educated and winners with the organized graduates are the most wonderful secondary school graduates trained by communities. This new project aims to thing that exists between heaven and it, and another 512,728 are undergoing guarantee social security through the earth: the people”, he stated. the process. This illustrates the construction of a socialist economic Venezuelan people’s keen desire for system. The setting up of cooperatives an improved educational system to requires that 50% of its participants produce free men and women, guided be Ribas Mission students, winners by a revolutionary action and thought or graduates, the remainder being which prizes the principles of human members of the community. The solidarity, integration and construction Mission graduates will receive financial of the motherland as envisaged by assistance to develop activities in José Martí: America. agricultures, food, services, tourism, handicrafts production and metal- Socially productive activities working. The commitment to undertake For President Chavez, the Ribas socially productive activities and Mission must become a powerful services within the communities, social and political movement that currently prevalent among students reaches beyond the noble aspiration and winners, is one of the academic to become a secondary education Thanks to president Chávez, Ribas Mission has formation’s fundamental pillars. graduate. “The people were helped more than 1.800.000 people to leave the dark “ The student delegates and the winners should be in the forefront Figures and in permanent mobilization with the people 418.000 ” integral graduates in three years 512.728 students in schoolrooms 32.000 enablers throughout the country Rafael Ramírez Popular Power minister for Energy and Petroleum and 1.893 jailed inmates studying President of PDVSA. The New PDVSA Contact • January 2007 3 The New The New PDVSA PDVSA Contact Contact PETROCARIBE >> Consolidating energy security Petrocaribe strengthened (II) Petrocaribe has, from its very beginning, become consolidated as a Latin American and Caribbean energy Major steps were taken integration initiative. towards the consolidation of the Petrocaribe Energy Cooperation Agreement during the last quarter of 2006, as evidenced by the agreements signed through PDV Caribe for the installation of storage centers in strategic eastern arch Caribbean locations and the fuel supply accords established with the various island countries of the region. he major advances made by the Antigua and Barbuda’s geographic distribution to the islands of the TPetrocaribe Energy Cooperation location provide a number of shipping region by means of smaller tankers.” Agreement during the last quarter advantages for the handling and of 2006 consolidate it as one of distribution of fuel for the eastern The agreement contemplates the the most effective cooperation Caribbean area, besides being a refurbishment of mothballed storage agreements established to achieve strategic zone interconnected with tanks, thereby increasing the region’s energy security in the Caribbean and a major part of the 14 countries Central America. As part of these which are signatories of Venezuela’s achievements, Antigua and Barbuda Caribbean unification project through will become a storage center for the Petrocaribe. distribution of diesel oil, jet fuel and gasoline to the countries and islands The PDVSA Refining vice-president in the eastern Caribbean through and president of PDV Caribe, the agreement signed by PDVSA Alejandro Granado, explained that subsidiary PDV Caribe and West “this is the case of a wholesale India Oil Company for the storage of storage agreement that will generate 82,000 barrels of hydrocarbons, in savings by enabling the shipping of In addition to the 90,000 barrels stored at present, addition to the 90,000 barrels already large volumes of hydrocarbons from a further 82,000 barrels of hydrocarbons will be held at the St. Johns storage center. Venezuela, to permit their subsequent available at St Johns storage center in Antigua. 4 The New PDVSA Contact • January 2007 The New The New PDVSA PDVSA Contact Contact storage capacity by another 150,000 Venezuela together with cylinders of 10 kilogram capacity barrels and the possibility of effecting St. Kitts and Nevis sign for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) additional savings in freights. a supply agreement were delivered, in addition to the 47,000 units which have already been Venezuela and Belize sign The supply of 21,000 barrels per placed on the island, representing a a supply agreement month of refined products such as Jet savings mechanism for the population A1 fuel, diesel oil, fuel oil and asphalt in terms of domestic energy for the internal consumption of St. consumption. Kitts and Nevis began in January 2007, thanks to the agreement New agreements signed by PDV Caribe, a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Similarly, the Bolivarian Republic of and the St Kitts and Nevis Ministry Venezuela and St. Vincent and The of Public Works, in the framework of Grenadines forged closer fraternal the Petrocaribe Energy Cooperation ties though the signing of a supply Agreement. contract for the monthly delivery of 30,000 barrels of fuel, made up The St. Kitts and Nevis Energy and
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