VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
One of the first acts of President Chavez in the New Year was to officially celebrate 50 years of the Cuban Revolution, which, he says, has come to be an example of a People's dignity in the face of an Empire that seeks to submit it by force and turn it into a colony. The official ceremony took place at the National Pantheon in Caracas. Chavez highlighted current relations of brotherhood and trade between the two countries, recalling that Libertador Simon Bolívar also wanted to liberate Cuba. Continuing his historical review, the President recollects that 50 years ago Venezuela was a CIA base for conspiracy ... "the country was the shame of the continent." The political leaders at the time, such as Romulo Betancourt, Chavez declares,installed a tyranny of the elite at the service of the US Empire, becoming a sub-imperial colony, openly conspiring against Cuba.
Bolivarian ideologist, William Izarra has announced the launch of ideological workshops beginning on Saturday, January 10. The workshops are open to communal councils, PSUV branches, and grassroots groups in the Caracas parishes of Coche and El Valle. The first workshop will be called, the "situation of the Bolivarian process within the scenario of 2009." The same workshop will move to the Maracay nucleus of the University of Carabobo. On January 17, the workshop will take place in the Guanta municipality of Anzoategui and later in the month will move to Cabimas and communities situated on the eastern bank of Lake Maracaibo. Izarra says the workshops hope to provide a political interpretation of the 21st Century Socialism thesis and define how to spread the thesis within the current scenario of the constitutional amendment and the last regional elections. After the November elections, President Chavez had stated that he will be pushing for greater consciousness among supporters through setting up political workshops and discussion groups.
In his New Year's message to the Nation, President Chavez has reaffirmed that he wants to make Venezuela into a power, a "social, scientific and popular economic power." The Socialist project he is fighting for, the President told viewers, ranges from agrarian, energy, economic and social projects to the creation of a new man. Chavez calls on Venezuelans to try and imagine what would be happening today in Venezuela, if the Bolivarian revolution had not arrived and insists that there is no doubt in his mind that the country would have been taken over by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which would have implemented a neo-liberal packet and continued the privatization of the country. Referring to Venezuela's Simon Bolivar satellite, Chavez praises it as an example of national dignity.
Patrick J. O'Donoghue
patrick.vheadline@gmail.com
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