Venezuela’s life expectancy among the highest in the Continent

Caracas, May 21. ABN.- Venezuela registers a life expectancy of 75 years, which is one of the highest rates in the American Continent as it was certified by the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to the World Health Report 2009, which was presented this Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, the life expectancy of the citizens of North [...]

Venezuela: women conquer successfully more and more labor and political spaces

Caracas, May 21 ABN.- Women’s recognition as subject of social transformation and their subsequent progressive incorporation to the different spaces of participation are already a fact in Venezuela.
This change is not by chance, but as a result of the implementation of different public policies on behalf of the Venezuelan Government and which the Bolivarian Gender [...]

President Chavez: Banco de Venezuela now belongs to the people

Caracas, May 22. ABN.- The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias, said this Friday that the Banco de Venezuela pass to belong to the people.
During a tour through the facilities of the Universidad Nacional Experimental Politecnica de las Fuerzas Armadas (Unefa), in Barinas, Venezuela’s plains, the Head of State ratified that [...]

European parliamentarians praise Venezuelan participatory democracy

Caracas, May 22. ABN.- “Representatives of the European Union Parliament expressed pleasure and supportiveness to the participatory democracy, which is a guarantee to the defense of the human, social and labor rights, provided by the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela,” informed the Vice-president of Commissions of the Venezuelan Group of the Latin American Parliament, Carolus Wimmer.
Wimmer [...]

Globovision would not be authorized in no other place of the world

Caracas, May 25 ABN.- The private television channel Globovision “is a channel that would not be authorized in no other place of the world; it is a very aggressive channel, cynical, it enjoys a real press licentiousness,” expressed the Executive Secretary of the Latin American Federation of Journalists (Felap, Spanish abbreviation), Ernesto Carmona.
During a phone [...]

Venezuela is the single Latin American country that operates its own satellite autonomously

Caracas, May 20 ABN- Venezuela is the single Latin American country that owns, operates and manages a satellite autonomously, without the intervention of private or foreign sectors, stressed on Wednesday the Minister of People’s Power for Science, Technology and Intermediate Industries, Jesse Chacon.
“Venezuela is the single country in Latin America that owns a satellite, operates [...]

PSUV denounced media campaign to create new coup d’état

Caracas, May 20 ABN.- A national and international campaign devised by the media oligarchy to generate a new coup d’état against democracy and the National Government, denounced on Wednesday the coordinator of the board of communication and propaganda of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), for Miranda state, Armando Octaviano.
The political leader expressed that [...]

Venezuelan economy grows despite world crisis

Caracas, May 19 ABN.- The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at constant prices recorded a grow of 0.3% during the first trimester of 2009, with regards to the same term the previous year, which represents the twenty-second trimester of growth in a row, despite the world financial crisis.
The positive result of the GDP estimates during the [...]

Rapporteurs from the OAS and UN use opposition media to attack Venezuela

Caracas, May 23. ABN.- The rapporteurs of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations use the information supplied by Venezuelan private media outlets to attack the Government of the President Hugo Chavez, assured the Permanent Representative of Caracas to the OAS, Roy Chaderton Matos.
In an interview offered to Telesur, Chaderton Matos asked [...]

President Chavez’s Administration guarantees freedom of expression

Caracas, May 25 ABN.- “In Venezuela, we live in democracy and according to the law; you can debate any kind of issue, even if it is about a delicate matter,” affirmed the journalist and former vice president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jose Vicente Rangel.
The statement was issued during his Sunday television program, and [...]

Denying importance of Latin American integration is to suffer historic blindness

Caracas, May 23. ABN.- The pretension of denying the importance of people’s integration, by some groups of power that ruled Latin America for years and that have been defeated through votes, “is just to suffer from a historic blindness,” assured the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, in a press conference in joint with his Venezuelan [...]

PSUV gives the possibility to join President Chavez on building the Homeland

Caracas, May 11 ABN.- Enrolling in the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV, for Spanish) represents a possibility for citizens to join the President of the Republic, Hugo Chavez Frias, on the building of the homeland.
The statement was issued by the PSUV vice president for the Southeastern region of the country, Nicolas Maduro, who [...]

Venezuelan opposition goes on with its destabilizing plan “Operation Check to the King”

Caracas, May 10. ABN.- Venezuelan opposition sectors are preparing a destabilizing plan called “Operation Check to the King,” and the idea of creating a national front or a patriotic board with all the opposition factors is getting stronger. For such purpose, there are diverse lines of work to achieve street riots, said this Wednesday the [...]

PDVSA has control over 90% of the activities in the Maracaibo Lake

Caracas, Amy 12 ABN.- The state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) has achieved to have control over 90% of the activities in the Maracaibo Lake, Zulia state, without the participation of the private sector, as part of the new Organic Law that reserves to the State the goods, services and basic activities of hydrocarbons. [...]

Venezuelan opposition goes on with its destabilizing plan “Operation Check to the King”

Caracas, May 10. ABN.- Venezuelan opposition sectors are preparing a destabilizing plan called “Operation Check to the King,” and the idea of creating a national front or a patriotic board with all the opposition factors is getting stronger. For such purpose, there are diverse lines of work to achieve street riots, said this Wednesday the [...]

The socialism to save Venezuela and the world from world crisis

Caracas, May 10. ABN.- “The socialism will save China, and we can say that it will save Venezuela and the world, so that we have a big responsibility,” said the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frias.
The statements were made during his weekly program “Alo, Presidente,” broadcasted from Barinas state (Venezuela’s [...]