Petrocaribe will be relaunched in the first half of 2020
The Petrocaribe Energy Cooperation Agreement will be re-launched for the first half of 2020, as reported by the head of State and Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, during the celebration of the twentieth Intergovernmental Commission of the Integral Cooperation Agreement Cuba – Venezuela held on January 19th and 20th in the Venezuelan capital. “We will recover PetroCaribe in the first half of the year to recover the level of brightness it had.”
Bilateral relationship between Iran and Venezuela flourishes and projects towards the future
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran have strengthened their relations of friendship and bilateral cooperation, in an official visit the Minister of the People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, to the Persian nation which concluded on Tuesday, January 21st.
At a press conference from Tehran, after meeting with the Iranian president Hasan Rohaní, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister ratified Caracas’s commitment to the promotion of a new necessary global geopolitical scheme, in which the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of The United Nations. “It is something we have shared with the Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif; We have shared it with the ministers with whom we have met and with President Rohaní as well, ”he said in his statements to the media.
Venezuela and Chinese province of Shaanxi strengthen cooperation
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza held a meeting with the vice governor of Shaanxi Province, Xu Dantong, on Saturday, January 18th, as part of his official visit to China to strengthen bilateral relations.
“I think we have to establish a twinning between a province or state of Venezuela and Shaanxi Province, so that we can approach more formally. It would be interesting that our teams could define some of the 23 states of Venezuela to establish a twinning between provinces, ”said the Venezuelan Foreign Minister. For his part, Dantong noted the importance of the visit to strengthen cooperation between Shaanxi and the South American country in terms of trade, culture and industries.
President of Venezuela proposes dialogue to interact with the US
In an exclusive and extensive interview with The Washington Post, published this weekend, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro proposed a dialogue with the United States (USA), based on respect, to establish a different relationship with the North American country.
“If there is respect between governments, no matter how big the United States is, and if there is a dialogue, a truthful exchange of information, then making sure we can create a new type of relationship,” said the Venezuelan president.
Despite the interventionist and contrary position of the US which Juan Guaidó arbitrarily imposes as head of the Venezuelan legislature, the legitimate Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro considers “A relationship of respect and dialogue brings a win-win situation. A confrontational relationship brings a lose-lose situation. That is the formula. ”
Venezuela rejects US interventionist attempts with allied governments
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza rejected the insistence of the United States (US) together with the Colombian government to promote a coup against Constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro.
“Mr. Pompeo has a hard time understanding that as a puppeteer, he and his job were a monumental failure in Venezuela. Instead of accepting him and opting for Diplomacy, he now dedicates himself to walking his puppet defeated by the world. Anyway … What else could you expect? “Said Foreign Minister Arreaza. The pronouncement of the minister comes after the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, announced his departure to Colombia to hold meetings with members of the coffee executive and with the Venezuelan deputy, Juan Guaidó.
Cuba – Venezuela Annual Cooperation Plan is made up of 21 projects
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, participated on Monday in the signing of agreements in the framework of the XX Intergovernmental Meeting of the Integral Agreement on Cuba-Venezuela Cooperation, held at the Miraflores Palace.
The agreement of the Annual Cooperation Plan for the year 2020 is made up of twenty-one (21) cooperation projects carried out in eight work tables detailed below: Health Services Program, Technical Advice to the National Public Health System, Electrical Support Program, Human Talent Training Program, Sports Promotion Program, Cultural Promotion Program, Food Development Program, Convention Support Services Program.
International Anti-Imperialist Meeting kicks off in Venezuela
Representatives of social and political movements from the five continents will participate in the Anti-Imperialist World Meeting that started on January 22nd in the capital of Venezuela.
Under the slogan “for life, sovereignty and peace” the attendees and participants of the meeting will denounce the neo-liberal, anti-imperialist policies promoted by the United States and its allies.
Venezuelan government denies search of Juan Guaidó offices
The Venezuelan government denied on Wednesday, January 21st, that authorities raided the offices of opposition deputy Juan Guaidó and indicated that the police operation responds to a corruption investigation against two businessmen with an office in the same building as the politician.
The Minister of Communication and Information of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, denied that the officials had the private office of the opposition deputy as their objective, ensuring that it was an operation against two businessmen for “legitimization of capital.”
Venezuela repudiates the decision of the Government of Guatemala on rupture of relations
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza repudiated that Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei decided to break relations “definitively” with the Government of his country.
Through his Twitter account, the Venezuelan diplomat said that Giammattei “has immediately thrown himself at the feet of Donald Trump.” However, Arreaza reiterated that the Venezuelan Government chaired by Nicolás Maduro reiterates “our respect and affection for the dignified Guatemalan people.”
Venezuela assumes Grulac presidency in Unesco
Venezuela assumed the presidency of the Latin American-Caribbean Group (Grulac) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) on January 16th, the country’s Ambassador to the international organization, Hector Constant Rosales, informed.
Through his Twitter account, Constant Rosales said the group’s board of directors will also be made up of the representatives of Cuba and Nicaragua. Grulac is made up of 33 member states of Latin America and the Caribbean, and serves as a non-binding dialogue group to discuss issues related to regional and international issues.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister affirms that Latin America is in battle for multilateralism
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Friday that the Latin American region is in the midst of a battle for multilateralism. “This battle is in defense of multilateralism, non-intervention and self-determination of peoples,” Arreaza said during a meeting with the President of the Institute for International Studies of China, Qi Zhenhong.
Kueka: The sacred stone for the Pemón people returns to Venezuela after 22 years in Germany
It was stolen from the Gran Sabana during the government of Rafael Caldera in 1998, in a process that disrespected the regulation of the National Park as an Area Under Special Administration Regime, to be exhibited in the Tiergarten metropolitan park in Berlin, as a work of the plastic artist Wolfgang von Schwarzenfeld.
After the efforts undertaken by the National Government that since 2000, assumed the repatriation of the “Grandmother Kueka”stone as a historical debt to the indigenous peoples and communities and the consequent struggle of the fierce Pemón people, on January 20th, the Removal process began, for it to be transferred to its home, in the pemona community of Santa Cruz de Mapaurí.
Reverol: Indicators of crime and violence fell by 36.2% during 2019
Minister for Internal Relations, Justice and Peace, Néstor Reverol, met with the board of the Criminal and Scientific Investigations Corps (CICPC), where he announced that in 2019 there was a 36.2% reduction in all crime and violence indicators.”
“Homicide rate has been decreasing per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 4 years. Likewise, 2 thousand 47 peace quadrants have been deployed throughout the country, ”said the minister.
“Last year we had a 36.2% reduction in all the indicators of crime and violence that are studied in the country according to the guidelines of the United Nations Organization, we have managed to reduce the incidence of crime by 36.2%,”.
