Venezuelan law enforcement agencies will create an Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping Command this year as part of new measures to fight criminality in the country. A series of meetings on the issue began this week in Caracas.
Venezuela’s ministries of education and university education are working together with experts from the Currency Administration Commission (CADIVI) to create new administrative procedures for requests for currencies to facilitate academic activities abroad, said CADIVI President Manuel Barroso.
Venezuelan lawmaker Freddy Bernal, who leads the National Assembly’s Joint Commission for Disarmament, said Tuesday that a new state-funded social program known as “Mission Safety” “is aimed at deepening and coordinating policies among the government, the state, and people’s power…
William Godnik, coordinator of the United Nations Regional Center for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, praised initiatives by the Venezuelan government to guarantee peace through disarmament efforts.
On Thursday in the state of Guárico, the governments of Venezuela and England held their first ever Workshop on the Promotion of Human Rights for Homosexuals and Transgendered People, an event directed toward Venezuelan law enforcement agents.
After the conclusion of this year’s first special session of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), the president of that entity, Tibisay Lucena, presented at a press conference a review of CNE activities in 2011, offering details about the achievements of…
In the name of President Hugo Chávez, Minister for Indigenous Peoples Nicia Maldonado handed over on Tuesday the first economic benefits to indigenous families in the state of Zulia in northwestern Venezuela.
Operación Cambote begins today in Venezuela, an initiative allowing inmates to become involved in the restoration of the penitentiary centers throughout the country, according to the minister of penitentiary services, Iris Varela.
The President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, said on Monday that laws proposed directly by citizens through popular initiative will be prioritized during the 2012-2013 legislative period.
The Venezuelan government is set to invest over $16.2 billion in building homes for citizens that lack adequate housing, and will give priority to victims of the devastating rainstorms that hit the country in early 2011.