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8th February 2011, 18:45
http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/dc-12-years-bolivarian-revolution.html
On Feb. 2, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition attended a historic celebration in Washington, D.C. honoring the 12th anniversary of Venezuelas Bolivarian Revolution. More than 200 people attended the event entitled 12 Years of Peoples Democracy in Venezuela: A Tribute to the Bolivarian Revolution.
Speaking at the event were Deputy Francisco Torrealba, a member of the Venezuelan National Assembly, and Cuban Ambassador Jorge Alberto Bolaos Suarez, with a special message delivered from Caracas by Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez.
Venezuelas President Hugo Chvez was elected in 1998. Under his leadership, the Bolivarian movement has made incredible strides towards building a society organized around peoples needs. From 1999 to 2007, extreme poverty in Venezuela fell from 20.2 percent to 9.5 percent, pulling two million Venezuelans out of extreme poverty.
Infant mortality per thousand live births dropped from 21.4 percent in 1998 to 13.7 percent in 2007, and since 2005, 7,491 health care centers have been built. Nearly 3.5 million Venezuelans have graduated from education missions and 652 Internet centers have been built to promote computer literacy and guarantee access to information, a free resource that has been used by over two million Venezuelans.
Ambassador Bolaos said: The Bolivarian Peoples Democracy gave Venezuela to the Venezuelans. It has obtained unprecedented social achievements where human beings are put as the top priority, because millions of Venezuelan men, women and children do not have to endure poverty anymore.
The ANSWER Coalition cosponsored this event along with a number of other progressive organizations, and congratulated Venezuela for its remarkable achievements.
We support not just the Venezuelan revolution, but the idea of the Venezuelan revolutionary, which is truly a transformative idea for people around the world, not just in Latin America, but also here in the United States, said Eugene Puryear, an organizer for the ANSWER Coalition, in a solidarity message delivered at the celebration.
The people of Venezuela, and now the people of Latin America, have stood up to fightto walk, to jog, and now to runtowards freedom, towards justice, towards human solidarity, towards socialism and towards a future where everyone in the world can live together cooperatively, share and build a sustainable planet.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation congratulates the people of Venezuela for their remarkable and inspiring efforts to build a peoples democracy, as well as President Hugo Chvez for his ability to harness the revolutionary potential of the people to fight against oppression and exploitation. Viva la Revolucin Bolivariana!
On Feb. 2, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition attended a historic celebration in Washington, D.C. honoring the 12th anniversary of Venezuelas Bolivarian Revolution. More than 200 people attended the event entitled 12 Years of Peoples Democracy in Venezuela: A Tribute to the Bolivarian Revolution.
Speaking at the event were Deputy Francisco Torrealba, a member of the Venezuelan National Assembly, and Cuban Ambassador Jorge Alberto Bolaos Suarez, with a special message delivered from Caracas by Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez.
Venezuelas President Hugo Chvez was elected in 1998. Under his leadership, the Bolivarian movement has made incredible strides towards building a society organized around peoples needs. From 1999 to 2007, extreme poverty in Venezuela fell from 20.2 percent to 9.5 percent, pulling two million Venezuelans out of extreme poverty.
Infant mortality per thousand live births dropped from 21.4 percent in 1998 to 13.7 percent in 2007, and since 2005, 7,491 health care centers have been built. Nearly 3.5 million Venezuelans have graduated from education missions and 652 Internet centers have been built to promote computer literacy and guarantee access to information, a free resource that has been used by over two million Venezuelans.
Ambassador Bolaos said: The Bolivarian Peoples Democracy gave Venezuela to the Venezuelans. It has obtained unprecedented social achievements where human beings are put as the top priority, because millions of Venezuelan men, women and children do not have to endure poverty anymore.
The ANSWER Coalition cosponsored this event along with a number of other progressive organizations, and congratulated Venezuela for its remarkable achievements.
We support not just the Venezuelan revolution, but the idea of the Venezuelan revolutionary, which is truly a transformative idea for people around the world, not just in Latin America, but also here in the United States, said Eugene Puryear, an organizer for the ANSWER Coalition, in a solidarity message delivered at the celebration.
The people of Venezuela, and now the people of Latin America, have stood up to fightto walk, to jog, and now to runtowards freedom, towards justice, towards human solidarity, towards socialism and towards a future where everyone in the world can live together cooperatively, share and build a sustainable planet.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation congratulates the people of Venezuela for their remarkable and inspiring efforts to build a peoples democracy, as well as President Hugo Chvez for his ability to harness the revolutionary potential of the people to fight against oppression and exploitation. Viva la Revolucin Bolivariana!