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ISSUE. 24, 31st AUGUST 2015

MADURO PROPOSES CREATION OF COLOMBIAN MOVEMENT FOR PEACE

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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro proposed Tuesday the creation of a political movement for peace that would include Colombian migrants living in the country.

“I want all of you to help me in an important task, lets look for all the hard working and honest Colombians that live in our homeland and lets build a movement of…Colombians in Venezuela to defend sovereignty, peace in Venezuela,” said the head of state during his weekly TV show.

Maduro also responded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who hours earlier spoke to the U.S.-based TV network CNN. In declarations with the station, Santos demanded a fair treatment for all Colombians, regardless their economic situation.

“President Santos,you’re being fooled, the Colombian oligarchy lies about Venezuela,” said Maduro.

The president highlighted that around five million Colombians are currently living in Venezuela and that they have come seeking affordable healthcare and education.

“The exodus of Colombians coming to Venezuela is the largest that exists in the world today. The Colombian people are fleeing war, paramilitaries and misery, and they have come here by the millions,” he added.

1. Maduro proposes creation of Colombian movement for peace 2. Venezuela asks UN Security council to give priority to world peace The head of state added that Venezuela loves the Colombian people, and that for over 16 years those millions of migrants have received healthcare and education in the country.

He insisted that those who have migrated to Venezuela are the poorest, the victims of the paramilitary groups that have operated in Colombia for decades.

“This is the truth President Santos, I know you inherited this situation and I respect the effort that you are making .. but I have said that from this humane Venezuela, even if it might sound strange, I have to go forward: I will not allow more paramilitary attacks, attacks from criminal gangs against our economy,” Maduro added.

The president warned about what he believes is a campaign of hatred is underway to create divisions between the people of Venezuela and Colombia.

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3. Venezuela, Brazil, FAO signed a letter of intent in agro-alimentary cooperation.

4. Latin American children’s cardiology has returned hope to 9,980 children in 9 years - Children will learn to program from school

VENEZUELA ASKS UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO GIVE PRIORITY TO WORLD PEACE

According to the United Nations Charter, the Security Council has the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security, and in that sense Venezuela proposes to this body to include peace in its name and embrace this term.

"The Security Council should also include peace in its name, and it should be named the Council for Peace and Security," said Tuesday Venezuela's Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez.

From the headquarters of the Venezuelan Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Caracas, she said that in view of the threats against the stability and tranquility of countries and peoples of the world, this United Nations agency should direct its efforts without hesitation, to fighting wars and terrorism.

The Security Council of the UN should not "put peace aside because it should be the ultimate goal to be achieved in all the nations of the world," stressed the Venezuelan Foreign Minister.

to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Antifascist Victory of China's people.

She noted that today the world must question "who finances these groups? who provides them with guns? who trains them? and, above all, what is the goal of the terrorist violence that pervades whole regions in the world? These are the answers humanity is seeking tirelessly and it should be like that if we really want to live and share in a world where peace prevails."

The Chancellor said that the consciousness of the people on these challenges is key to defeat the violence and fascism that exists in the world, and added that an example of them was what happened 70 years ago, when the Chinese people obtained a landslide victory against the invasion and fascist attacks by Japan during World War II. "That's what gave them the strength to defeat the fascist forces", stressed the Foreign Minister.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela was accompanied at the opening of the photo exhibition by ambassadors from other countries, including Chinese Ambassador Zhao Bentang. www.avn.info

She also urged the international community to reflect and take action in that regard.

"The world is living very significant challenges. There are very significant challenges to solve: the terrorist violence that has expanded in some regions, and this should call the entire international community to reflect about," she said, after opening in Caracas a photographic exhibition

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Venezuela, Brazil, FAO signed a letter of intent in agro-alimentary cooperation.

Representatives of the governments of Venezuela and Brazil and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) signed on the 26th of August in Caracas a new agreement on cooperation and exchange of experiences in the agro-alimentary area.

The triangular cooperation agreement, signed at the headquarters of the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, has as its main goals the promotion and exchange of experiences, technical assistance, agricultural extension and research and technology transfer in the areas of food supply, school feeding, family farming, agrarian reform and alimentary and nutritional security.

It was attended by Marcelo Resende, FAO’s representative in Venezuela; Patrus Ananías, Brazilian Minister of Agrarian Development, and Yvan Gil, Venezuelan Minister of Agriculture and Lands.

Minister Ananías welcomed the signing of the agreement and said that “this is an important step we are taking, in the cooperation between the Governments and peoples of Venezuela and Brazil, especially in the field of development of family farming” “The guarantee of the right to alimentation passes through family farming, passes through the social function of land, which is what we are reaffirming here today”, he said.

Minister Gil emphasized on bilateral relations, since “beyond a signature, the most important thing is the commitment of brothers that we are acquiring, moral and ethical, from those of us who believe that food production must be from the people and for the people”.

“We believe that agriculture is not just another economic activity”, he said after signing the document.

Ananías met on Monday in Caracas with the Venezuelan Chancellor Delcy Rodríguez, to evaluate the expansion of trade relations in the agriculture area.

Chancellor Rodriguez described the activity as one of a great importance, because of bilateral agreements in the area, and stressed that the Minister was sent by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, to advance in agricultural development, in alimentary sovereignty and security of both nations.

Venezuela and Brazil keep friendly relations since the 19th century, but after the start of President Hugo Chavez in 1999, and of Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva in Brazil in 2003, began a dynamic process of deepening the strategic relations between the two countries from bilateral cooperation for economic and social development, to political convergence towards the regional unity and sovereignty, demonstrated in various multilateral forums.

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Latin American children’s cardiology (in Venezuela) has returned hope to 9,980 children in 9 years Since its opening on the 20th August, 2006, and to date, the Latin American Children's Cardiology Dr. Gilberto Rodriguez Ochoa has restored hope and smile to 9,980 children with some type of congenital heart disease in Venezuela and other countries.

"This figure would have taken over 70 years at the pace that treatment was being carried out in previous governments. At nine years of revolution, since the Children's Cardiology opened its doors, we made a radical difference, the director of this health center�, Isabel Iturria, said this Thursday.

Through Venezolana de Television, Iturria revealed that this year, for the first time since its opening in the Cardiological there is no waiting list "neither in electrophysiology nor pacemaker nor cardiac catheterization."

"I mean, this year we have cleared the list of all the patients that have issues that can be solved in the heart without opening the chest, and the patients remaining are those added to the listing this 2015, most of them with no more than six months of waiting" she added.

So far in 2015, she said, 550 surgeries, among interventions, hemodynamic and electrophysiology- have been carried out in this hospital, which means that in just eight months, "We did

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what we did in an entire year, totaling all hospitals in the country."

Many of the operated patients are cared for even before arriving at the Cardiology. From their home, the Government and Simon Child Foundation help the transfer of children to the hospital and also have resources for patients to return to their homes after surgery.

"This is the difference of health in socialism as opposed to health as a commodity," said Iturria.

This cardiological was conceived by the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez, to meet the demands of patients aged between zero and 18 years old with heart defects. Today, in addition to caring for patients across the country, it opened its doors to children from sister nations of South America and Africa. www.avn.info

Empower the youth and conquer technological sovereignty are fundamental policies of the Bolivarian Government and, based on these assumptions, basic education pupils will be given greater access to information and communications technology (ICT) in the Project Small Programmers, that will train children in the country in the design, animation and programming from your computer.

This project is implemented by the Bolivarian Foundation of Informatics and Telematics (Fundabit), an entity under the Ministry of People’s Power for Education, and is particularly aimed at children enrolled in standard one and two.

In this regard, Camila Magrane, the educational specialist in charge of the project, explained that the initiative will teach young people to program on their computer. "Since last year we imparted classes to standard four and five pupils using the tool Scratch, and now in the second phase we will train teachers so that during the next school year they can offer this same material in all the country's Bolivarian schools".

The training program consists in forming four teachers and eight graduates from the Industrial Technical School "Gregory Mc Gregor", located in the Coche parish of Caracas specializing in Electronics.

These new facilitators will be assigned to various educational institutions to transmit this knowledge to the young and then at the end of the school year, present as a project an educational videogame that will serve to teach new students.

Magrane also stressed that children would program in a creative and fun way, by addressing daily class issues in a didactic way. "When programming video games, through the Scratch tool, children learn the basics of computing in an educational and entertaining way."

This initiative is part of a series of projects developed by the Bolivarian government in areas such as robotics and creative design and programming under Free Software, through training programs taught by experienced tutors from the Bolivarian Centers of Informatics and Telematics (CBIT, abbreviations in Spanish), a fact that drives the national technological independence.

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