Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs
Weekly Newsletter / September 17th 2021
TOPIC OF THE WEEK
Venezuela accelerates massive vaccination
to immunize 70% of the population
The massive vaccination plan against Covid-19
is marching successfully in Venezuela. President
Nicolás Maduro informed that in spite of the siege
and the Unilateral Coercive Measures, by mid Sep-
tember 30% of the population has been immu-
nized. He added that it’s expected to reach 50%
by the end of the month and 70% in October, this
means 22 million people.
Vaccination in Venezuela began in February with the
application of Sputnik V (Russia), initially targeted for
health personnel - who are at the first line of struggle
against the disease - and seniors. Later on the na-
tional immunization plan incorporated Shinopharm
(China) and Abdala (Cuba) vaccines to expand the
Return to classrooms under biosafety conditions under way
The Venezuelan educational sector plans to
resume face-to-face activities next October,
with the “Victory Bicentennial Plan. Safe and
Progressive Beginning of Classes 2021-2022,”
which establishes the necessary conditions
to start the new school year, subject to the
7+7 method.
DIPLOMACY
• Comprehensive oil policy
NEWS BRIEF
• Cooperation with the United Nations
CAPSULES OF IDEAS
• “... more united, stronger ...”
program to more sectors of the population.
The massive plan entered a new phase by the end
of August that went from 100 thousand persons
vaccinated each day to 300 thousand, by opening
179 more vaccination centers added to the 452
that were already operative and by the extension
of opening hours at the centers.
This process will continue to expand as the first 693
thousand doses arrived from the 12,068,000 units that
Venezuela bought through the Covax Mechanism, of
the World Health Organization, and the new batch of
the second doses of the Russian antidote Sputnik V
that arrived in the country in early September.
“In October we plan to include children and teens
In the second half of September, teachers and
parents will be trained on the protocols that will
be applied for face-to-face classes, which will be
resumed gradually.
At the same time, the immunization of teaching
staff is expanding. “We must complete the
vaccination of teachers, workers of all personnel
IN THIS EDITION
REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS
• New agro-productive structure
UNBLOCK
• Call to end the UCM
VENEZUELA IN IMAGES
• Cultivating the love for theater
from 3 to 18 years in the vaccination scheme. I think
that un Venezuela, despite all we have suffered, we
lead an important and pronounced pace,” President
Nicolás Maduro expressed.
Thanks to the 7+7 prevention scheme, that alter-
nates one week of radical quarantine, and a week
of flexibility to facilitate economic activity, and the
massive immunization plan coordinated by the
“Patria” digital platform, Venezuela is amongst the
South American nations with the lowest number of
infections per million citizens, with 12,267, a figure
which contrasts with its neighbors Brazil (97,991)
and Colombia (95,697).
Photo: Courtesy
around the school,” said President Maduro.
The program also includes social care for
teachers and the rehabilitation plans for
the structures of education centers, among
other aspects that guarantee adequate
conditions for school activities without risk
of contagion.
BEATS OF OUR PEOPLE
• Sports heroes
HEROIC ROOTS
• Necessary is to win
UNCOVERING FAKE NEWS
• False positives
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NEWS BRIEF

Cooperation
with the United
Nations System
DIPLOMACY The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro,

Venezuela proposes a met in Caracas with Gianluca Rampolla Del

Tindaro, new resident coordinator of the

comprehensive oil policy to OPEC United Nations System in Venezuela, in order to

In a visit to Caracas, on the 61st anniversary of the
bloc, the Secretary General of the Organization
of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC),
Mohammad Barkindo, met with the President of
the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, who informed that
Rodríguez, the People’s Power Minister for Foreign
Relations, Félix Plasencia, and the Vice-President for
the Economic Area, Tareck El Aissami, who presented
the proposal of an integral policy for the oil market,
based on coherence, cohesion and consensus, in favor
strengthen diplomatic, political and economic
alliances. “We ratify the will to strengthen
cooperation mechanisms with the United
Nations System, for the social protection of our
people,” said the head of state.
Photo: Presidential Press

they talked “about the prospects of the oil market,
the development in the years to come and the
strategy for strengthening of OPEC+.”
During his working day, Barkindo thanked President
Maduro for his performance “typical of the great world
leaders” in stabilizing the market. He added that he
hopes to continue counting on the leadership of
Venezuela, the largest oil reserve on the planet.
He also met with the Executive Vice-President, Delcy
High Commissioner for Human Rights recognizes
impact of the Unilateral Coercive Measures
In the update of her report, the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle
Bachelet, recognizes the negative impact of
the Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCM) on the
Venezuelan people and calls for their lifting, some-
thing that Venezuela appreciates.
Since the previous report, “the US government
has continued its siege against Venezuela with
the imposition of illegal coercive measures,” said
the representative to the UN-Geneva, Héctor
Constant, at the 48th regular session of the
Human Rights Council.
of producers, investors and consumers.
El Aissami denounced that Venezuela “continues to be
subjected to an illegal and implacable siege regime”
by the US and its allies, through Unilateral Coercive
Measures against its oil industry. Therefore, he makes
an “imperative and urgent” call to OPEC to adopt
“mechanisms that allow us to confront the aggressions”
against Venezuela and its partners in the world.
Photo: Presidential Press
He highlighted the cooperation between the
Venezuelan State and the members of the office,
present in the country after the signing of an
agreement in 2019, extended for one year, which
demonstrates the commitment of Venezuela to
the protection of Human Rights.
However, he regretted that “politicized ele-
ments that negatively impact its objectivity and
credibility” persist in the report and insist “on un-
founded questions that feed the agenda of multi-
form aggression” against the country, despite the
ease of access to verified information.
Honor and glory to
Fermín Toro Jiménez
International Relations authorities and
professionals expressed their regret for the
physical departure of Fermín Toro Jiménez,
expert in International Law and co-editor of the
international chapter of the 1999 Constitution.
Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia lamented the
loss of “dear professor, exceptional diplomat,”
who exercised high responsibilities on behalf
of Venezuela.
Relationships marked by
respect and cooperation
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Félix Plasencia,
met with the new Charge d’Affaires of the
European Union in Venezuela, Rafael Dochao
Moreno, with whom he discussed the need to
advance in relations “marked by respect for In-
ternational Law and mutual cooperation.” In
addition, he thanked him for supporting the
dialogue process between the government and
the opposition that is taking place in Mexico.

In defense of the Essequibo

CAPSULES OF IDEAS The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
celebrates the signing of the partial agree-
“Latin America is a federation of identities; hopefully that, ment between the Government delegation
the more nuanced then more united, and when more united then and the so-called Unitary Platform of the
opposition for the defense of Venezuela’s
the stronger and more creative it is. The promising future of our sovereignty over the Essequibo. An official
America does not lie in its false homogeneity, but rather in the real communiqué states that it is the will of the
entire people “not to abdicate their territo-
and accepted proximity of its heterogeneities.” rial claim or their will to reach a mutually
Mario Benedetti, A Federation of Identities, 4 January 1993. acceptable agreement with Guyana.”

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UNBLOCK REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS

Special rapporteur
for UN urges to
lift Unilateral
Coercive Measures
The Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCM) im-
posed by the US and the European Union on
Venezuela have a “devastating effect” and
should be “reviewed and lifted.” This is what
the final report of the Special Rapporteur
Alena Douhan indicates about the negative
impact of the UCM on the enjoyment of
human rights.
The text, presented at the 48th Session of
the United Nations Human Rights Council, A new agro-productive structure is born
is the result of work that included meetings
held by Douhan during her visit to the
in the Venezuelan countryside
country in February 2021. It details that last Venezuela is working on the construction of an eco- Maduro, to the Cacique Yare Unit, on September 8.
June, 14 children died waiting to be assisted nomic structure to overcome the attacks of imperialism The Head of State instructed: “AgroFANB must
by the Citgo health program, a Venezuelan and guarantee food security from the countryside. think big in terms of three vital years (...) it must
asset kidnapped abroad under the pretext This model already has expression in spaces such as be like a machine that advances consolidating
of the Unilateral Coercive Measures. the Gran Cacique Yare Agricultural Production Unit, in production, with more and more hectares and it
The rapporteur urges the US “to review Aragua state, Central North of Venezuela. must achieve the virtuous circle of producing all
and lift the sector sanctions against the In this production space, 370 hectares of corn are cul- the seeds we need.”
public and private sector of Venezuela” and tivated, one of the agricultural items most consumed He exhorted his Cabinet to consolidate a new
the secondary ones against other States, by the Venezuelan people. This crop is produced with economy not dependent on imports, so that the
while reaffirming that their extraterritorial the guidance of the Agriculture of the Bolivarian country imposes itself “over threats, blockades
application is inadmissible. National Armed Forces (AgroFanb), a company and sanctions,” which caused the dramatic de-
It urges all States to lift “selective sanctions in created in 2013, key in agricultural production, with crease in food imports.
accordance with the principles of international 31 units throughout the country which produces Some advances to break the old model are already
law and the rule of law” so that senior offi- 210,000 hectares of various items, of those 2,830 are palpable: 95% of the rice consumed by Venezuelan
cials can represent Venezuela, respecting the dedicated to yellow and white corn. families is produced in the country, thanks to the
“principle of sovereign equality of States.” “We are going to grow, month by month, year by effort made by entities such as Guárico state, in the
The report denounces that in 2020 the year, to reach a complete production,” the President Venezuelan plain lands, where 232,540 hectares of
purchase of blood reagents was blocked of AgroFanb, Luis Valbuena Ferrer, declared during cereals are cultivated.
for 2,586,106 patients. The acquisition of a visit by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Photo: Courtesy
vaccines for 2,600,000 children was also
prevented, and they were finally attended
thanks to the efforts of Venezuela with the
UN and the support of friendly countries.
The so-called sanctions also affect public
services. For example, as a consequence of
international persecution of suppliers of in-
puts needed to refine oil and diesel, trans-
portation has become difficult.
In the report, the“governments of the United
States, the United Kingdom, Portugal and
the banks are urged to unfreeze the assets
of the Central Bank of Venezuela to buy hu-
manitarian goods.”
In this regard, the Minister of Foreign Affairs
VENEZUELA IN IMAGES
of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, denounced that Eight years cultivating the love of theater
the Unilateral Coercive Measures “constitute
Fostering knowledge and love for the paying tribute to the playwright, poet, painter
crimes against humanity.” He stressed that
performing arts is the main goal of the National and journalist César Rengifo, who vindicated
despite the more than 430 “sanctions” against
Movement of Theater for Girls, Boys and Youth in his works the causes of the humble people
the country, social care, even in the midst of
“César Rengifo”, born on September 16, 2013. with his deep sensitivity.
the pandemic, has been preserved.
This group, reaches its eighth anniversary, Photo: Courtesy

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HEROIC ROOTS
José Félix Ribas
always chose
to win
He hailed from the privileged class and had
religious inclinations, but the execution of
his friend José María España, who together
with Manuel Gual led a pro-independence
movement in 1797, took him down another
path. José Félix Ribas, born in Caracas on 19
September 1775, committed himself to the
libertarian cause through ideas and action.
His commitment to agitation actions implicates
him to acts that took place on April 19st 1810,
considered the first step for the independence
of Venezuela. That same year he assumed his
military career, with courage and vehemence.
In 1812, upon the fall of the First Republic in
Venezuela, he went to Curacao, and the following
year he travelled to Nueva Granada (today
Colombia), to be a key figure in the Admirable
Campaign, a military operation commanded by
Simón Bolívar which led to the conquest of the
Second Republic.
On February 12, 1814, with an army made up
mostly of young students and seminarians, Ribas
defeated the royalist Francisco Tomás Morales
in the town of La Victoria, in the centre of the
Country, leading the troops with a harangue that
became immortal: “We cannot choose between
winning nor dying, it is necessary to win.”
In 2003, inspired by that principle, Commander
Hugo Chávez inaugurated the Ribas Mission,
a program that has enabled more than one
million Venezuelans to complete high school.
They confirmed that the hero, even after his
vile assassination on January 31st 1815, has
been, as the writer Juan Vicente González said,
“the sublime energy, the life of the revolution,
the soul of the Republic.”
Image: Courtesy
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BEATS OF OUR PEOPLE
The people welcome
their sports heroes
In less than a week, the Venezuelan people
celebrated the arrival of the World and Olympic
Champion Yulimar Rojas and the delegation that
achieved the best performance of the country in
the Paralympic Games, adding three gold medals,
two silver medals in Tokyo 2020+1 and two bronze,
as well as 17 diplomas.
The triple jumper, gold in the Tokyo Olympics and
owner of the world record for the specialty (15.67
meters) arrived on September 14th after also
triumphing in the Diamond League.
“This is the beginning of good things to come (...)
Many diamonds will come, many medals for this
beautiful country,” said the athlete, who celebrated
with hundreds of people in a welcoming caravan.
Five days earlier, the same jubilation enveloped
UNCOVERING FAKE NEWS
False positives are used from Colombia
against the Mexico Dialogue
Given the progress of the dialogue between the
Venezuelan Government and the extremist oppo-
sition in Mexico, the administration of Iván Duque
fabricates false positives to try to hinder that process
and hide the Colombian crisis. This time, he false-
ly accused Caracas of an attack on the military in
Arauca, on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.
The accusation “is irresponsible and demonstrates
the greatest cynicism,” warned the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, Félix Plasencia, who recalled that
it was from Colombia where the plans for the
assassination with mercenaries of the President
of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, last July, and the frus-
trated 2018 assassination attempts against the
Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, took place.
The Minister for Defence, Vladimir Padrino, ascribed
this as predictable to “Duque’s game plan” be-
cause” the scenario of the false positive could not
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the delegation that shone at the Paralympic
Games in Tokyo, led by sprinter Lisbeli Vera,
triple medalist, with two gold (100 and 200
meters, T47) and one silver (400 meters), the
first Venezuelan to achieve such a feat; the
twins Linda Pérez (gold in 100 meters, T11) and
Alejandra Pérez (bronze in 400 meters, T12); Luis
Rodríguez Bolívar (silver in 400 meters, T20) and
Clara Fuentes (bronze in parapower).
Medalists, winners of Olympic diplomas and guides
were decorated with the Francisco de Miranda
Order by the President of the Republic, Nicolás
Maduro, who thanked them for their display of
humanism: “We are moved by your ability to
overcome difficulties and tell the world: Here I am!”
Photo: Courtesy
be missing” in his attempt to “torpedo the dialogue
table.” He warned that in the face of agreements
between the government and the opposition on
sovereignty issues such as Venezuela’s rights over the
Esequibo, “anguish grows” among the Colombian
oligarchy, for “it claims to violate our sovereignty.”
The lie is inherent of the Duque government be-
cause it works “in one direction: exporting the
war and expanding drug trafficking networks
throughout the continent,” said the Minister for
Communication and Information, Freddy Ñáñez.
Warlike eagerness, false positives and media ma-
nipulation have been recurrent on the part of the
Colombian government to divert attention from the
internal problems of their own country and threaten
the peace of Venezuela. Given this, the Executive Vice
President, Delcy Rodríguez, is emphatic: “Bolívar’s
Venezuela will always remain victorious.”