60 tractors from Belarus have arrived in Puerto Cabello (Carabobo). Agriculture & Lands Minister, Elias Jaua was at the port to receive the tractors and head a showpiece cavalcade of tractors at the local naval base. The Minister repeats that the Josefa Camejo Socialist company is entrusted with distributing the tractors to several States for rice and other kinds of plantation. Specialized staff of the Venezuelan Agrarian Corporation (CVA) take care of red tape and the transfer of imported machinery to the Socialist company as well as monitor use of the tractors. Venezuela expects to set up an assembly tractor factory shortly with the aid of Belarus experts, Jaua reveals, adding that the money to pay for tractors and other agricultural implements comes from the Venezuelan-Chinese fund. The Ministry is currently negotiating the purchase of machinery from Brazil worth around $60 million to help recover and improve agricultural roads . Communication & Information (MIJ) Minister, Andres Izarra says the network of the Real Venezuela project, which he will be implementing to offset what he calls private sector "media bombardment," must strengthen direct communication with communities to provide them with information to broadcast what is really happening in the country. The Minister maintains that the project is of great importance as international Capitalist structures collapse because of the world financial crisis. It will allow, Izarra contends, a new model to arise with greater force as well as schemes of social construction in Venezuela and the rest of the world. The Minister emphasizes that Venezuela is one of the points ushering the birth of a new world and the advance of a new civilization ... "heading the process of world change is the Venezuelan State and its leader, Hugo Chavez." The importance of the Real Venezuela project, Izarra continues, is to enlighten consciences about the importance of the continuity of the Bolivarian process. However, he did make it clear that the change envisioned has a lot to do with what will happen on November 23 when there will be regional elections. The first issue of a million leaflets has already been printed, outlining statistics and important information about growth and government achievements over the last 10 years. 14 documentaries will also be sent to local communities and alternative media for distribution through a network of video forums.
National Electoral Council president, Tibisay Lucena says voters will be able to use electoral guides or help cards when they come to vote on November 23. Lucena made the statement after meeting magistrates at the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (CNE). The CNE president states that the electoral timetable will e followed rigorously. The CNE is currently publishing leaflets to help voters understand how to vote in regional elections where they have more than one choice.
Conflict continues at the Sidor steel plant in southeastern Venezuela. Basic Industries & Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz says there is no justification for workers belonging to private contractors preventing access to one of the factory gates and blocking vehicles from reaching other state companies in the Matanzas industrial zone in Cuidad Guayana. The Minister recalls that at a recent meeting in which Executive Vice President Ramon Carrizalez talked with representatives of people working for contractors, decisions were taken in favor of the protesters. There are currently five committees working to implement an agreement with workers regarding transport, canteens, and other conditions, Sanz slams protesters for organizing a new wildcat protest without any dialogue or warning and suggests that the motive behind the protest could be political. "They want to reverse the political effect of a mass rally that President Chavez held in Cuidad Bolivar last Wednesday." The Minister calls on protesters to return to work and not allow themselves to be manipulated politically.
Zulia State Governor, Manuel Rosales has risen to the challenge launched by the government to have him brought to trial proclaiming that he will go to the National Assembly (AN) to clarify charges against him but insisting that the hearing be made public. Rosales confirms that is ready to meet the AN comptroller committee next Tuesday. "I'm ready to go to any investigations to discuss all the lies that they have invented against me and the false documents which is nothing new." Commenting on the release of tapes supposedly incriminating himself, Rosales contends that they are tapes fabricated by Cubans working the security forces.
Telecommunications & Computer Minister, Socorro Hernandez has announced that a series of services generated by the Simon Bolivar satellite will start in the first quarter of 2009. During a ceremony to swear in the new board of the Mission Sucre educational foundation, Hernandez declares that among the services offered will be voice, video and data, digital and radio television signals and Internet. The Minister says a list of needs required by the different public organs as well as national cooperation agreement has been drawn up. At the moment, the Minister comments, the satellite is in a process of adjustment and antennae must be installed to be able to reach different sectors of the country before the services can be offered.
President Chavez has held an important meeting with disabled persons. Speaking at the closure of a meeting called an " integral study of persons with disabilities," the President listened to the final phase of a diagnosis undertaken by Mission Jose Gregorio Hernandez. An initial survey in several States reveals that there are 21,917 cases of disabled persons in Miranda State, 1,164 in Delta Amacuro, 33,119 in Zulia, 6,382 in Barinas and 4,256 in Vargas. The mission itself is was set up to give primary attention to people suffering from any kind of incapacity and to establish strategic programs to help them and their families.
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