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Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs
Weekly Newsletter / August 6th 2021
Yulimar Rojas set an Olympic re- made history (...). I am very happy
cord in her first jump, with 15.41 to be part of the most beautiful
meters, and broke it on her sixth country in the world, Venezuela
TOPIC OF THE WEEK attempt by achieving the world (...). No matter how difficult the
record of 15.67 meters. Four times situation gets, you always have
Venezuela makes history world champion, now Olympic
champion and silver medalist
to get up and never put a limit on
yourself. We come from a warlike
at Tokio Olympic Games in Rio 2016, Yulimar is one of
the great figures in Tokyo 2020.
land, full of struggle, of beauti-
ful people and this is a gift that I
Venezuela leaves an indelible mark in judoka Anriquelis Barrios, pole vaulter “Happy to have given that joy to am giving to my country (...) We
the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Yulimar Robeilys Peinado and weightlifters my country, to have given every- have accomplished it! We have an
Rojas wins the gold medal and sets the Yusleidy Figueroa and Naryuri Pérez. thing on the track and of having Olympic gold and a world record.”
world record with a mark of 15.67 me- Venezuela had achieved a maximum
ters in the women’s triple jump. It thus of three medals in an Olympic event: 2
adds the fourth medal of the country silver and one bronze in Rio 2016 and Unforgettable! Olympic medal or diploma, we
embrace them, we love them,
in the Japanese capital, which together 3 bronze in Los Angeles 1984. Yulimar’s
President Nicolás Maduro we support them (...) what they
with the silver medals of Julio Mayora also became the country’s fourth gold
congratulated the Olympic dele- deserve from us It is a hug, a big
and Keydomar Vallenilla, both in medal in the Olympic Games and the
gation. “Tremendous performance applause and the commitment to
weightlifting, and Daniel Dhers, in BMX first won by a woman. With the three
of all the athletes, those who have support them and the entire golden
Freestyle cycling, already crowns the from Tokyo, we add a total of 7 sil-
obtained medals, those who have generation to continue shining in
best performance of Venezuela at the ver medals. So we get to 21 Olympic
obtained an Olympic diploma and the sky.” He stressed that the “Tokyo
Olympic Games. The delegation also medals, for the time being.
those who have not achieved an 2020 games are unforgettable.”
sports 4 Olympic diplomas, thanks to Photos: Courtesy
Another weightlifter, Keydomar Vallenilla, The first medal for Venezuela in Tokyo went “In 60 seconds I had to compress what I have
reached the second medal for the country in to the weightlifter Julio Mayora, in the 73 kg done in 15 years.” Cyclist Daniel Dhers won
these Olympics. He won the silver in the 96 category, Olympic runner-up by lifting 346 kg. Venezuela’s third medal, with a score of 92.05
kg category by lifting a total of 387 kg. “The “Thanks to the people of Venezuela for all the in BMX Freestyle, a sport that debuted on the
strength of Venezuela was with me at all times.” support and all the energy they gave me.” Olympic program.
IN THIS EDITION
DIPLOMACY REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS BEATS OF OUR PEOPLE
• Venezuela and Peru relations • Higher Council of Economy • Strengthen the health system
NEWS BRIEF UNBLOCK HEROIC ROOTS
• Cooperation for children • To defeat the blockade • The way of freedom
CAPSULES OF IDEAS VENEZUELA IN IMAGES UNCOVERING FAKE NEWS
• “... plague America ...” • Anti-imperialist symbol • UN report naked lies
August 6th 2021 / Page 2
DIPLOMACY NEWS BRIEF
Cooperation
for children
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza,
evaluated in Caracas with the regional director
for Latin America and the Caribbean of the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Jean
Gough, programs and projects that are being
developed co-ordinately in Venezuela for the
protection of children. Gough also met with
other Venezuelan State officials.
Photo: MPPRE
Evaluate progress
with WFP
Venezuela and Peru move towards Representatives of the Venezuelan Govern-
ment, including Minister Jorge Arreaza, re-
viewed with the regional director for Latin
a new stage in their relations America and the Caribbean of the World Food
Program (WFP) of the United Nations, Lola
Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, attended the inau- Castro, the progress of the agreement aimed at
guration of Pedro Castillo as President of Peru and Intense work agenda
providing nutritional assistance to one million
conveyed to him the best wishes on behalf of the During his official visit to Peru, Minister Arreaza children in Venezuela.
Venezuelan people and government. greeted the Argentine head of state, Alberto
He ratified the bonds of brotherhood between both Fernández, and the foreign ministers of Spain,
Electoral
peoples, and met with the new Peruvian Minister of Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico, Chile, accompaniment
Foreign Affairs, Héctor Béjar, a renowned social fighter, Bolivia and Nicaragua, among others. The President of the Council of Electoral
writer and sociologist, to evaluate mechanisms aimed He also held meetings with the former Experts of Latin America (CEELA), Nicanor
at the integral recovery of relations, in matters such as presidents of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Moscoso, met with authorities of the Electoral
“trade, policies of assistance to migrants and the need Evo Morales, and Honduras, Manuel Zelaya. Power of Venezuela to set the terms of the
to strengthen the mechanisms of union in Our America.”
mission that the body will send to the regional
Minister Arreaza also attended the symbolic
and municipal elections on 21 November. In
swearing-in of President Castillo at the Pampa de obstacle to get this far.”
Caracas, the president of CEELA also witnessed
Quinua, where the Battle of Ayacucho was fought, In a subsequent statement, Minister Béjar said
the start of the audit of the Electoral Register.
which sealed the Independence of South America. that his government rejects unilateral coercive
Regarding the new head of state, he stated: “Pedro measures suffered by countries such as Cuba
Castillo is a President that the humble people put and Venezuela: “Our policy is against unilateral
Support to
in the Presidency (...). We feel deeply proud of the sanctions and blockades.” Nicaragua
Peruvian people for overcoming any situation and Photo: Courtesy Venezuela expressed in a statement its
categorical repudiation of the imposition of
CAPSULES OF IDEAS unilateral coercive measures against the Vice
President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, and
“The United States appear to be destined by Providence seven other high-ranking officials of that coun-
try by the European Union, which “once again
to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” aligns itself with the practice of follow-up to
Simón Bolívar. Guayaquil, August 5, 1829. the intervention policies of the United States.”
Year 1 / Number 20
August 6th 2021 / Page 3
UNBLOCK
New economic
and legal
architecture
to defeat
the blockade
Since 2014, Venezuela has faced the largest
aggression in its history. Unilateral Coercive
Measures (UCM), preceded by the fall in oil
prices, produced an average annual loss of
30,000 million dollars over 6 years.
VENEZUELA IN IMAGES
The onslaught comes from “two laws An anti-imperialist symbol
passed in the (U.S.) Congress, 7 executive
On August 3, 1806, Generalissimo Francisco de of Independence. It is an anti-imperialist symbol
orders, more than 350 measures against
Miranda hoisted for the first time on national soil that accompanied the Liberating Army and that
natural persons, companies, ships and
the yellow, blue and red tricolour. It became the the Venezuelan people continue to raise today.
aircraft,” and more than 150 additional
National Flag on July 9, 1811, after the declaration Photo: Courtesy
measures, which make the country
the sixth in the world with more peo-
ple sanctioned and the fifth in compa- REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS
nies sanctioned, explained the Deputy
Minister of Anti-Blockade Policies,
William Castillo, in a recent interview.
In this framework, an attempt is made
to crush Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa),
which lost 102 billion dollars due to the fall
in its production, in addition to the theft of
state assets, such as Monómeros and Citgo,
and 31 tons of gold seized in England.
“No economy would withstand such
an attack in such a short period of time
and its government and people remain
standing and its economy reconstructing
itself.” Castillo highlights as a pillar of
resistance alliances in the social base.
Higher Council of Economics
An example is the agreements between
communes for supply.
for productive development
At the same time, a new dynamic is being Strengthening the national productive apparatus, El Aissami, stressed that, despite the blockade,
proposed with small and medium-sized boosting exports and import substitution, as well Venezuela “compared to the countries of the region
enterprises and instances of the People’s as stimulating the domestic market are objec- is economically stable and we are moving towards
Power, through the Anti-Blockade Law. tives of the Higher Council of Economics, which gradual growth.”
When President Nicolás Maduro speaks will establish working groups with the country’s
of “an explosion of productive forces, he productive sectors. 100% of Petrocedeño
is not referring to the traditional relation- When calling for its activation, the President of the The Venezuelan Petroleum Corporation (CVP), a
ship with a business elite,” Castillo said. Republic, Nicolás Maduro, instructed “the design subsidiary of the state-owned PDVSA, will assume
The Anti-Blockade Law seeks to promote of a productive export map of the Venezuelan 100% of the stakes in Petrocedeño, one of the
and protect investments and promote economy, in order to build an economy that does most important oil operators in the world, after
national and international productive not depend on oil income.” a negotiation with the companies TotalEnergies
projects and the communal economy. “It During the kick-off, with businessmen and and Equinor.
creates a temporary special system (...) of producers from all economic sectors, the Executive In a statement, PDVSA indicates that Petrocedeño
legal protection against sanctions.” Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, said that the import will be “the central axis” of the development of the
“If the country unites to call for an end to substitution process should focus on products that Orinoco Oil Belt.
the blockade and sanctions, political sta- allow saving foreign currency and count on a mar- “The negotiation has been a success,” said President
bility will not only become normal, which ket that makes them sustainable. In this regard, she Nicolás Maduro, who reiterated that through
already exists in Venezuela, but it will boost announced that the National Public Procurement the Anti-Blockade Law, hundreds of investment
economic development,” he concluded. Law will be taken to the National Assembly. projects are being developed.
The Vice President for the Economic Area, Tareck Photo: Courtesy
Year 1 / Number 20
August 6th 2021 / Page 4
HEROIC ROOTS
BEATS OF OUR PEOPLE
Vocational training
From the strengthens health system
Admirable The graduation of 3,276 professionals in different 80,000 students at UCS.”
Campaign to specialties, graduates of the University of Health
Sciences “Hugo Chávez Frías” (UCS, Spanish initials),
In order to strengthen the training of future doc-
tors, the president instructed Health Minister, Carlos
Junín: the long strengthens the Venezuelan Public Health System,
which in the words of the President of the Republic,
Alvarado, to seek alliances with countries such as
Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, Nicaragua and Spain.
road of liberty Nicolás Maduro, must become the most complete, of
the highest professional, scientific and human quali-
These new doctors, nurses and technicians “have
an open horizon to develop as human beings,
August involves some of the most glorious ty that exists in Latin America and the Caribbean. as health professionals. They have been trained
dates in the long fight for Venezuela’s and South To support this objective, the president approved to bring relief, love and health to the people,” the
America’s independence. On August 6, 1813, 193,472 Petros (about 10.9 million dollars) to reha- President said.
Simón Bolívar and his army enter triumphantly bilitate the UCS headquarters in Caracas and its 24 In the activity, he also informed that the massive
to Caracas, successfully completing the Admira- centers. Also, during the graduation ceremony, he phase of vaccination against Covid-19 will attend
ble Campaign which initiated six months before, asked the health authorities to strengthen alliances to all the workers of the country’s public and pri-
and in it he won the Liberator title. with other learning institutions and ordered a vate universities from August, as part of the actions
That was not the end of the road. Ahead were doubling of the number of UCS students. aimed at restarting face-to-face academic activities
more triumphs and also many defeats and “You have to incorporate more. If we have 38,000 next October.
backdrops. But being free was an irreversible today, I dream of the time soon when we have Photo: Courtesy
decision of those men and women. Six years
later, on August 7, 1819, the liberation of New
Granada, today Colombia, would be sealed
UNCOVERING FAKE NEWS
in the Boyacá Battle, with the victory of the
Liberator army commanded by Bolívar, after 6
UN report uncovers lies from Colombian
hours in combat.
“Never had our troops triumphed in such a
government about drug trafficking
decisive way” the post battle debrief refers, an The last Survey on Territories Affected by Illicit accuses Venezuela of protecting terrorists
affirmation which predicted the triumphs of Crops made by the United Nations Office on and having links with the Sinaloa cartel. Its
the battles of Carabobo, where Venezuela was Drugs and Crime (Unodc), reaffirms Colombia another false accusation that is dismounted
liberated in 1821; Pichincha, which marked as the biggest cocaine producer in the world, with the UN’s report, which warns of the
the independence of Ecuador, in 1822, and a reality that the government and media of increasing influence of Mexican cartels in
Junín, key element for Peru’s liberty, on that country intend to hide with accusations the structure of Colombian drug trafficking.
August 6, 1824. against Venezuela. Last year it became public -in a trial in the
For Bolívar, liberty was not secured until the According to the study, the cocaine produc- US- that the plot of the Sinaloa cartel plays
Spanish imperialism was definitely defeated tion potential increased 8% between 2019 and a part in a group of pilots that transported
in all South America. It was achieved with the 2020 to 1,228 metric tons of drugs. The crops Duque and Álvaro Uribe during the last
victory of Ayacucho on December 9, 1824. are concentrated in 40% in border areas with electoral campaign.
The Liberator always knew that there is no Venezuela and Ecuador. This situation has been The data in the study also demonstrate the
glory without sacrifice and that there is no permanently denounced from Caracas and its falseness of the alleged protection of terrorism
triumph without a strong will, perseverance origin sits on the abandonment of the respon- in Venezuela, when in fact the production of
and courage. Today, the heirs of his legacy take sibilities of safeguarding its border territory by cocaine has boosted the rising of more criminal
his example and -like him and his army- are the Colombian State. bands in Colombia, that the Venezuelan security
determined to be free. Appealing to the old trick of trying to look forces fight daily on the extensive common
Photo: Courtesy in another direction, President Iván Duque border of 2,219 kilometers.
Year 1 / Number 20
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