Chacao Mayor, Leopoldo Lopez is in Uruguay, lodging a complaint at a plenary session of the Southern Cone Economic Zone (Mercosur) parliament plenary session. Lopez insists on following up his campaign against the disqualification ban in Venezuela that prevented him from running as candidate for the November elections. The opposition politician has made several international forays to highlight his case and himself. According to Lopez, the ban has caused a lot of controversy inside the Mercosur parliament. However, the presence of Lopez was opposed by pro-government parliamentary deputies, such as Saul Ortega and Desiree Santos Amaral. National Assembly (AN) Deputy for the Podemos party, Juan Jose Molina has attacked pro-government deputies, who opposed the presence of Lopez at the Mercosur parliament plenary session on human rights. Molina says the only thing the four government deputies did was to throw insults at Lopez and himself instead of using arguments to defend their position. Molina maintains that he accompanied Lopez to hand over two documents, one rejecting the disqualification ban and another containing research for Mercosur parliament on the 26 laws passed by President Chavez under the legal figure of the Enabling law. The former pro-government Podemos party has joined the opposition.
President Chavez has announced that the famous magazine for children, "Tricolor," will circulate once again. The magazine was started in 1948 by Raphael Rivero Oramos and was a common feature of Venezuelan literary life for many years. The first edition of the resurrected magazine will contain the adventures of Brear Rabbit and Uncle Tiger. Education Minister, Hector Navarro says 400,000 copies will be published on a monthly basis and that the government is preparing radio and television versions of the magazine.
Expressing his deep concern for the course and direction of the agrarian reform, which is fundamental to his Bolivarian policy to push Venezuelan into full production, President Chavez has called on Agriculture & Lands (MAT) Minister, Elias Jaua to present results of the land reform as contemplated under the law. The President made the statement during a visit to the Pedro Camejo socialist farm in Calabozo (Guarico).
During his Sunday radio address, the President accused the current Guarico State Governor of putting a brake on the agrarian reform and siding with rich landowners. Chavez insists that many mayors and state governors have forgotten about the revolution, sticking to minimum tasks such as fixing holes on motorways and not tackling landed estates. Another complaint raised by the President during his visit is the fact that food prices have not been lowered, despite the many subsidies the government has offered to Socialist production companies. What is at play, Chavez suspects, is the "metabolism of Capitalism," and he asks why prices aren't going down after the government has exonerating producers in many aspects.
The continued presence of Chavez in Guarico is a sign that he is determined to bring the landed estate system to an end and get socialist production companies away from the limited concept of cooperatives that benefit the partners rather than the community.
The telecommunications regulation body (Conatel) has fined two radio stations in Guarico for using airwaves without the appropriate administrative and concessionary permits. The suspension of the two radio stations is provisional, until they put their house in order. The owners of the stations have 15 days to present their argument and 15 days to oppose the measure.
During his visit to Guarico, President Chavez says he may take over the state police force militarily after learning that Agriculture & Lands Minister, Elias Jaua and National Lands Institute (INTI) president, Juan Carlos Loyo and staff have been threatened by the police, while inspecting farms. Chavez contends that he will not allow the police to be used against the people or against government officials, and has ordered the commander of the Guarico garrison, Army General Elvis Sulbaran to use tanks, if necessary to take over the police barracks.
Interior & Justice (MIJ) Minister, Ramon Rodriguez Chacin has presented a proposal to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) to set up special tribunals dealing with drug-related offences. Ramon Rodriguez Chacin says the law is of the utmost importance for the government. The Minister also announces that last weekend, almost 3 tonnes of drugs have been seized, bringing the total this year to 33.9 times.
Patrick J. O'Donoghuepatrick.vheadline@gmail.com
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