RNV, translated by: Jorge Marin

Venezuela is one of the Caribbean Latin American countries that is a leader in the matter of literacy, according to the last figures recognized by the Organization of the United Nations for the Education, Science and the Culture (UNESCO) in less than ten years, Venezuela has managed to educate nearly 95.2% of its people.

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The Bolivarian Government has invested more than 4 billions dollars this year in the National Electrical System, informed President Hugo Chavez Frias, during the meeting with the Electrical General Staff, carried out this Thursday in the conference hall of the Generating Complex Josefa Joaquina Sanchez Bastidas in Vargas.
He asserted that as part of that investment, at this moment, 14 thermoelectric plants are ready for their inauguration that will add a generation of 358.3 megawatts, to consolidate a true Interconnected National System.

The “formal job” category in the country is located at 57%, whereas the “informal” has descended from 50% to 43%, informed the president of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), Elías Eljuri, interviewed in the program “Venezuela Woke up” that transmits VTV.
According with Eljuri, the formal jobs in 1999 was around 49%, a tendency that has been increasing.
" This measure shows that the quality of the jobs has been improving and that it is not what the spokesmen of the opposition always try to reflect, that the jobs are too precarious" , he pointed out.

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The economic situation worldwide is going through a rough period. Many countries are facing bankrupcy. Lets take a look at Venezuela over the decade since Chavez took office. Is the alternative to capitalism better for you and me?

Translated from RNV article.
The presidents of Venezuela and Brazil, Hugo Chavez and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, subscribed these diverse agreements on Friday (10/30/09) with the aim of mutual cooperation.
Among the cooperation areas are the hydrocarbons, nutrition, tourism and telecommunications. All these focused on ways to develop the integration and development of both nations.

Venezuela's unemployment rate was 7.8 percent in June, which shows a
stable behavior in the last months and is positive within the framework
of the world economic crisis, said the National Institute of Statistics
(INE, Spanish acronym).

As a mater of fact, unemployment registered 7.7 percent rates in April
and May, and it barely climbed 0.1 percent last month.

The Labor Force Monthly Report in June indicates that the employment
rate was 92.2 percent (11,888,179 people), being it 92.4 percent
(11,660,847 people) in June 2008 , which represents an increase of

The Venezuelan industrialists are fortified, thanks to the management of inclusion and endorsement that the National Government has carried out during these 10 years of management, mainly in the case of the small and medium industrialists, who have received the leverage necessary to grow. These were words of Alexander Uzcátegui, president of Industralists for Venezuela (Empreven), that denies the media campaign that it looks to seed fear in the deprived sector of the country.

April 23rd 2009, by ALBA Member Countries
ALBA
Cumaná, Venezuela

We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela, member countries of ALBA, consider that the Draft Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons:

- The Declaration does not provide answers to the Global Economic Crisis, even though this crisis constitutes the greatest challenge faced by humanity in the last decades and is the most serious threat of the current times to the welfare of our peoples.

On March 15th 2009 the Salvadoran people went to the polls and elected Mauricio Funes, the FMLN candidate, and in doing so they broke through 130 years of right wing dominance in the country. The FMLN, the same organization that fought a guerrilla war for many years in the 1980's proved that they could win in the political field as well. After many years of the civil war, broken promises from the peace accords, and lies and pressures from the US and ARENA supporters the Salvadorans decided to ignore fear and voted for a change in their country.