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Venezuela Informează - Buletin Săptămânal 27.08.2021 - Versiune Limba Engleza
Venezuela Informează - Buletin Săptămânal 27.08.2021 - Versiune Limba Engleza
Venezuela Informează - Buletin Săptămânal 27.08.2021 - Versiune Limba Engleza
IN THIS EDITION
DIPLOMACY REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS BEATS OF OUR PEOPLE
• Peace diplomacy • Science and Farmer Alliance • In greater love
Year 1 / Number 23
August 27th 2021 / Page 3
Democratic
congressmen from
the US demand an Science and Farmer Alliance
end to Unilateral boosts seed production
Coercive Measures More than 3,500 families dedicated to farming in
126 nucleus established in the country have united
Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture
(FAO). Furthermore, they use biocides designed in
against Venezuela their experience with investigators and laboratories
to stimulate and to strengthen the production of
Venezuelan laboratories.
In the Venezuelan Andes, at the Páramo region, a great
A group of 19 congressmen from the national seeds, to recover local varieties in order to farming area, the families dedicated to planting pota-
Democratic Party demand the President of progressively substitute imports of these supplies. toes offer their experience in order to improve the pro-
the United States, Joe Biden, to put an end Through the Science and Farmer Alliance the wis- duction of seeds of this tuberculum.
to the wrongly called sanctions imposed on dom of farmers is combined with the knowledge They are also working on the production of gar-
Venezuela, by considering that such measures of men and women of science for the growth lic seeds free of pathogens without an agro toxic
are contrary to international law and consti- of agroecology in Venezuela. It is a process charge and a higher potential for a bigger and
tute a failure in North America’s foreign policy. where “farmers keep a horizontal relation with more productive harvest.
In a letter sent to the Secretary of State, researchers,” explained Miguel Ángel Núñez, advi- These type of experiences are also carried out
Anthony Blinken, on August 12, they call on sor to the Ministry of Science and Technology. in the Andes, with sweet potatoes, coffee, cocoa
the lifting of the prohibition to exchange oil for Thanks to this exchange, nuns in Chirgua, in and celery, by combining the old wisdom with
diesel, imposed by Donald Trump’s administra- Carabobo state, in the center northern part of the the scientific labor aimed at improving seeds for
tion, and to depoliticize all operations related country, cultivate ancestral corn seeds as part of a a robust crop.
to humanitarian issues. project that Venezuela carries on with the United Photo: Courtesy
They also consider that the policy applied by
the former leader against Venezuela damaged
the credibility of the US in the region, and they
urge Biden a change in the course of his ad-
ministration that includes an exchange with
sectors from the non extremist opposition.
In the text, which was signed by figures such
as James McGovern, Mondaire Jones, Jared
Huffman, Raúl Grijalva and Jesús “Chuy” García,
they also ask the US leader to support the dia-
logue process initiated in Mexico City between
the Venezuelan government and the Unitary
Platform of Venezuela, that counts on the me-
diation of “highly respected actors,” such as the
government of Norway, who is a facilitator.
The congressmen also conclude that the
objectives posed by Unilateral Coercive
Measures to press for a change in the govern- VENEZUELA IN IMAGES
ment have not been accomplished, because
President Nicolás Maduro continues stronger
Clara Fuentes wins bronze in Tokyo Paralympics
than ever heading the Bolivarian Government. Weightlifter Clara Fuentes gave Venezuela its first proud to award this medal to Venezuela at my first
“The current ‘maximum pressure’ policy medal at the Tokyo 2020+1 Paralympic Games, Paralympic Games,” she said It’s 18th medal in our
towards Venezuela is a total failure.” winning bronze in the -41 kg weightlifting catego- Paralympic history.
Image: Courtesy ry. The 24-year-old athlete lifted 97 kg. “I am very Photo: Courtesy
Year 1 / Number 23
August 27th 2021 / Page 4
Bartolina Sisa,
symbol of the
struggle against Mauro of Catia, the wise
colonialism and combative voice of the elderly
The heroism of Latin American women, particu-
larly of our native people, has unavoidable names. More than a radio program, “A gathering with Mauro year, the mission was launched with the rank and
Like Bartolina Sisa, a symbol of bravery and intel- of Catia” was a space for debates and contributions force of law.
ligence in the indigenous struggles that preceded led by Mauro González, a fighter and social leader for “In the past we lived like fish in a fish tank and we
the independence of South America the elderly. Mauro, a resident of the popular sector believed that there were no other spaces, until you
Before the Wars of Independence of the nine- of Catia, in Caracas, valued radio as a tool to add, and (Chávez) appeared on February 4th, 1992, and taught
teenth century, our aborigines had a history of from there, after a conversation with Commander us that there is a sea and an ocean to navigate and we
struggle to liberate us from the Spanish em- Hugo Chávez in October 2011, proposed what would decided to break the glass from the fish tank to go
pire. The Aymaras and Quechuas led some of later become the Great Mission in Higher Love (“Gran sailing with you,” said Mauro at the time.
the most important uprisings. Misión en Amor Mayor”). When Mauro passed away on August 23rd, 2013,
Bartolina Sisa stands out. Born in August 1750, This social program made the approach of the so- his proposal had already transpired. Thanks to it
as a child she observed the cruel treatment cial fighter a reality: granting a pension to older and the Patria Social Protection System, Venezuela
against her people, humiliated and exploited adults who had not been able to contribute to the managed to include in 2018 100% older adults of
by the imperial masters. That forged her Venezuelan Institute of Social Security to obtain pensionable age, women from 55 years of age and
rebellious spirit and led her to become an that protection, which included people dedicated men from 60 years of age. By the end of 2020, more
example of resistance. to housework, the field, fishing, taxi drivers, among than 5,000,000 older adults were receiving their
In March 1781, together with her husband, others. The proposal received immediate approval pension, a figure that grows every month.
Tupac Katari, her sister-in-law, Gregoria Apaza, from President Chávez and, in December of that Photo: Archive /Courtesy
and other leaders, she commanded the insur-
rection against the Spanish crown in Bolivia
(then Alto Perú) known as the Siege of La Paz.
UNCOVERING FAKE NEWS
At the beginning of the uprising, some 50,000
indigenous people participated and in 90 days Media corporations bet
they amounted to almost 100,000.
Bartolina expertly handled the kurawa (sling), on the failure of dialogue
the rifle, rode on horseback and excelled in The aspiration to the failure of a process with tion to the conversations, when in reality even
organization and combat strategy. She resisted broad support seems to guide the narrative of pollsters linked to opposition sectors corrobo-
and defeated the royalists who believed they media corporations and influencers aligned rate the broad support for the process.
could break the siege at the point commanded with radical sectors, in the face of the new The big media installed in Miami and Bogotá also
by a woman. cycle of dialogue installed in Mexico between pretend to ignore that President Nicolás Maduro
Unable to militarily defeat the Quechua and the Venezuelan Government and the so-called has always built bridges with all sectors of the
Aymara army, the Spaniards resorted to bribery Unitary Platform of the opposition. country, while the extreme right left the dialogue
until treason allowed them to capture Bartolina, The agents acting against Venezuela insist that the table several times, as it did in the Dominican
whom they tortured, murdered, dismembered talks will fail if there is no change of government, Republic in 2018 and in Barbados in 2019.
and exhibited. an objective that they have sought - unsuccess- It is also hidden that, thanks to this mecha-
The objective was to “chastise” the rebels. They fully - through violent means (assassination, coup nism, always promoted by the government,
failed. Bartolina Sisa forever became an exam- d’état and mercenary invasion, among others) and the presidential elections in 2018 and the
ple, symbol and inspiration of the struggles with the imposition of criminal Unilateral Coercive 2020 parliamentary elections were held with
for the liberation of the peoples. In honour of Measures (UCM) against the country, whose lifting the participation of the democratic opposi-
this Aymara heroine, every September 5th is is one of the points of the dialogue. tion and that the authorities of the Electoral
commemorated as the International Day of In social networks it is intended to impose the Power were renewed, in accordance with the
Indigenous Women. matrix of resounding rejection of the popula- National Constitution.
Image: Courtesy
Year 1 / Number 23