Frail former Bolivarian top-dog, Luis Miquilena says he is certain the opposition will win regional elections on November 23 because President Chavez, he claims, is becoming increasingly nervous and resorting to aggressive language. Miquilena argues that the use the government is making of State media and resources is another sign of nervousness. Added to that, Miquilena declares, there is a real participation and positive attitude on the part of people which has shaken the confidence of the President. A group of hundred international relief helpers belonging to the educational Mission Ribas have returned to Venezuela after a month of voluntary work in Cuba clearing up after hurricanes Gustav and Ike. The volunteers helped repair around 30 educational institutes with carpentry, electricity and construction work. The group was received by mission foundation president, Orlando Ortegano and Cuban Embassy representative, Roberto Soto. Ortegano says he was very satisfied with the work undertaken by the volunteers as an example of the Latin American revolutionary process and a sign that Latin America is waking up.
In his Sunday TV political show, Jose Vicente Rangel insists that Colombian paramilitaries are able to move with unusual easiness in Caracas. Movements have intensified over the last weeks, the journalist states, especially in the barrios of Gramoven in Catia, La Bombilla in Petare and Filas de Mariche in the Tuy Valleys. Movements have also been detected in the Southeastern Bolivar State where, Rangel claims, paramilitaries are preparing acts of destabilization. The former Executive Vice President adds that State security organs are monitoring a supposed terrorist operation on a big scale in the coming weeks.
The National Lands Institute (INTI) plans to recover 731, 470 hectares in 2009 and have (Bs.F) 10.2 million bolivares at their disposal. In 2008, the budget was 16.4 million bolivares to recover 1.5 million hectares of lands. The Venezuelan Agrarian Corporation (CVA) will also receive less resources in 2009. This year it will receive 140.6 million bolivares, which is 17% less than last year's budget. The CVA is entrusted with boosting and marketing of agricultural products, building agro-industrial plants to store and process products and promoting as well as consolidating units of socialist production. Next year, the CVA proposes to build and set in action the Vuelvan Caras agro-industrial complex and strengthen infrastructure to market agricultural products financed by the government.
Following suggestions from President Chavez, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) vice president, Alberto Muller Rojas has announced that the party will ask the Attorney General to open an investigation against State Governor of Zulia and candidate to the Mayor of Office of Maracaibo, Manuel Rosales for alleged corruption. Muller Rojas says the charge rests on administrative problems related to properties that Rosales has been able to obtain unexpectedly either verbally or through front-men. The General insists that Rosales has allowed a permanent presence of paramilitaries and arms-traffickers in the State, claiming that levels of violence have risen and people who could be viewed as possible rivals of Rosales have been assassinated. The PSUV declares that it will set up a committee of economists to analyze all possible scenarios rising as a consequence of economic crisis.
The German Ambassador to Caracas has presided over the closure of a seminar for Venezuelan state security agents dealing with narcotics control. The course was given by Germany's criminal investigation office (BKA). Attending the ceremony, National Anti-Drugs Office director, Nestor Reverol says the course is part of planned international co-operation that Venezuela has with many countries within the framework of shared responsibility that each country has in fighting the war on drugs. Venezuela has signed similar agreements with France, Spain and Russia.
Patrick J. O'Donoghue
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