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N° 12. NEWS FROM 23 TO 29 Weekly Newsletter of the Bolivarian Republic of DE AUGUST 2016 Maduro receives the march of the working class in the Miraflores Palace Revolution. Workers also showed their support for the policies im- plemented by the Government, which seek to pre- serve peace and deepen the social achievements over 17 years. Accompanied by Vice President Aristóbulo Isturiz and the first fighter , Maduro said it was worth the struggle of the people of Venezuela. "Long live the working class winner of all time, how many struggles we have suffered and today we can say it was worth all the struggle of resistance and we will continue." , August 27, 2016 (Correo del Orinoco).- The He stressed that with each march he feels strongly en- president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nico- gaged in the battle. "We have lived the great history of las Maduro, received on Saturday the mobilization of the America, now we must move from stage of living it to working class, in the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. make the new history of socialism and the Bolivarian Rev- olution the rest of this century, from living making history The mobilization started in the morning from the Paseo to make his- of Indigenous Resistance, , and ending Men do not want to go to paradise tory with our outside the Miraflores Palace, where the head of state with an empty stomach, people hands." who are hungry do not need to was waiting to share the joy of working people who re- hear verses. I say this with full con- affirm with this march their support for the Bolivarian sideration by the Koran, which I learned at the age of ten years. The people who are hungry need Caracas and Tehran initiate a new strategic al- bread. liance for the development of their peoples Houari Boumediene Caracas, August 27, 2016 (MPPRE) .- With the commit- Furthermore, the president announced the creation of a ment to further expand the financial ties between Caracas High Level Technical Commission Venezuela-Iran and and Tehran, officials of both governments signed the joint integration of the Persian enterprises to fifteen engines communiqué between the Central Bank of the Islamic Re- the Bolivarian Economic Agenda (AEB) to achieve di- public of Iran and the Central Bank Bolivarian Republic of versified and sustained development in Venezuela, with Venezuela. emphasis on pharmaceutical, food and industrial sector. So he was an- President Nicolas Maduro congratulated Iranian Presi- nounced by the Pres- dent Hassan Rouhani, for the excellent presidency he has ident of the Republic, exerted in the Non-Aligned Movement, adding that a Nicolas Maduro, af- plan will be created to boost NAM towards the transfor- ter a meeting with mation of the UN system. the Persian Foreign Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said that Minister, Moham- with the signing of this new strategic alliance bilateral mad Javad Zarif, in cooperation and relations among peoples is strength- the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, accompanied by the Min- ened. It also acknowledged the untiring struggle of the ister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Delcy Rodríguez Supreme Commander for the construction of a new and other representatives of both countries. world, free from imperial hegemonies.

Made by the Institute of Strategic Research on Africa and its Diaspora, "Centre of African, American and Caribbean Knowledge" www.saberesafricanos.net CUMBE PAGE 2 Excerpt of Thomas Sankara’s Speech at the VII NAM Summit NAM, New Delhi, 1983 Mrs. President, allow Attaining collective peace among the member countries me to express my most of the Nonaligned Movement, and among all the coun- heartfelt congratula- tries, constitutes our first main objective. Our movement tions on your brilliant should never abandon its perseverant endeavor so that election for the Presi- all its members respect that main objective through ne- dency of the Summit gotiation and the peaceful mechanisms for the resolution and the work of our of all the conflicts that might come up among us, which movement. are in most cases encouraged by the maneuvers of impe- rialism. During the three years our movement was Wherever the people arise to demand their freedom and chaired by President independence, imperialism brutally intervenes to arm Fidel Castro, he their enemies, foster war and organize their massacre, showed an extraordi- fighting in this way against peace and against the libera- nary capacity which tion of the people. allowed for the strengthening of our dignity and credibil- We also believe that concerning the problem of peace, ity. We also want to convey to him all our satisfaction and security and the right of the peoples to self-determination our deepest consideration. and independence, the Movement of the Nonaligned I hereby greet the representatives of the peoples and gov- countries is absolutely right to keep a permanent position ernments from our sister and friendly nations to whom we and support the peoples who fight for their freedom and are bound by a common history of colonial and neocolo- their independence as well as the national liberation nial suffering, of painful and heroic struggle for our free- movements, no matter how savage the pressures of im- dom and independence and the fair and balanced devel- perialism may be on any of our members as a way to opment of humanity. weaken the voice of our movement. Despite the restrictive and simplistic interpretation imperi- Our countries no longer want the old economic order alism wants to impose as a definition of “non-aligned”, built on the irrefutable supremacy of the strongest, and this has nothing to do with the arithmetic equidistance of organized on a one-way exchange system of our raw ma- two blocks that dominate the world. We can never meas- terials and their manufactured products, their technology ure with the same standard he who oppresses plunders and their way of life. and massacre his people when they fight for their libera- The objectives of our move- tion and he who permanently and selflessly helps those ment for peace, independence people to liberate in their fight for liberation. We have to of countries and peoples and make a distinction of he who arms and supports, diplo- the democratization of the matically and economically, a racist elite that murders in international relations might cold blood an entire people for dozens of years, from he seem ambitious, but the audi- who helps that people to put an end, by means of the ence, each time more numer- armed struggle, to that racist regime that massacres it. ous of the movement of the We must not measure them by the same standards and nonaligned countries, proofs keep the same distance from both sides. the each time greater impact of our movement. So we must Our movement is above all, a moral force that joins coun- persevere in our actions. tries of diverse geography, extension, population, econo- my and social systems that bet on a positive and construc- In our convulse world, the permanent pursue of peace tive policy to foster peace among them and among all must be the biggest imperative of our movement, be- the counties in the planet, to promote the democratiza- cause without peace none of the goals we have set will be tion of international relations based of equal rights and attained. obligations instead of the present unfair and unequal Long live international cooperation! international relations; to foster the progress of countries Long live the solidarity among the nonaligned countries! and peoples instead of the continuous impoverishment of the poor countries and the enrichment of the richest ones Long live peace! at the expense of the poorest. Long live security and independence, and the progress of all the peoples! ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION Before the Revolution, 141 children were operated on the heart in all the hospitals of the country. Today, only at the Cardiological Children’s Hospital, they operate one thousand children a year . N° 12. NEWS FROM 23 TO 29 DE AUGUST 2016 PAGE 3 International Day of the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

The International Day years ago in Haiti, today of the Remembrance commits us all mankind.: of the Slave Trade and "Teaching this history of its Abolition is celebrat- the slave trade will help us ed every August 23, in to build a better commemoration of the world" (...) "The uprising in night of 22 to 23 August Haiti was a point of no 1791 in Saint-Domingue return in the history of (nowadays Haiti and mankind, with a profound entific and Cultural Organization Dominican Republic) for the begin- impact on the establishment of Univer- (UNESCO) adopted a resolution ning of a uprising that would be of sal Human Rights, therefore we are all proclaiming this date as interna- decisive importance for the abolition indebted to Haiti" (...) "The history of tional day to evoke the slave trade. of the transatlantic slave trade. the slave trade and slavery itself creat- The Director-General of UNESCO, ed a storm of anger, cruelty and rancor In 1997 the General Conference Irina Bokova, notes that the said that has not yet been healed". of United Nations Educational, Sci- event which have taken place 225 Eduardo Piñate: Knowledge Center is a Vanguard Institution Caracas, August 26, 2016 (IEEAD). The leader and con- world. gressman of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela He also said that the (PSUV, as per its Spanish acronym), Eduardo Piñate, study center is constituted paid a visit to the academic headquarters of the Center as a very important space of African, Caribbean and American Knowledge. Piñate for the construction of the stressed the importance of the Institute in the knowledge anti-colonial and anti- -generation that are part of the struggle for peoples' imperialist perspective, emancipation, against colonialism and imperialism, as within the framework of well as socialism. solidarity and South-South relations. In that regard, he indicated that the work of the Center Piñate was received by the Director of the Institute, Vice- of African, Caribbean and American Knowledge is fun- minister for Africa Reinaldo Bolívar, who offered him a tour damental as it allows to study the reality of the contem- of the facilities and introduced him the academic programs, porary world linked to the historical processes of Africa, cultural, outreach and research activities that are being Latin America, the Caribbean and other parts of the developed.

Namibia and SWAPO: A Story to Remember rica People's Organization (SWAPO), can withdrawal, Namibia finally in the said African country. became an independent state. Thus, SWAPO became the official SWAPO became the dominant spokes-organization in the different political party by winning the first international scenarios of the denunci- elections, being appointed as Presi- ations of Namibian people for the in- dent Sam Nujoma. Nujoma led justices of South African occupation of SWAPO during the anti-colonial its territory and the imposition of and anti-apartheid struggle. apartheid regime. Nujoma encouraged Namibian The only way to put an end to the ille- people with a call for unity "One gal occupation of Namibia by South Namibia, one nation" in which he Africa, against the apartheid and the based the new country project. Known as the Day of Namibia or He- independence of Namibia, was With this, he aspired to a social roes Day, every August 26, since 1966, through military confrontation. reconciliation and thus led the na- it is remembered around the world tion towards a more prosperous, After years of battle, for its self- the beginning of the struggles for the tolerant, peaceful and law- determination and against the apart- independence led by South-West Af- governed society. heid, in 1990, following the South Afri-