(VIDEO) Venezuelan Government Announces PreSale of Cryprocurrency "El Petro" By Feb. 20th

By: Aporrea-Agencies

Jan 30th,18.- The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Tuesday the launching of the Venezuelan bitcoin, The "Petro", this February 20th during a Ministerial Council at the Presidential Palace of Miraflores in Caracas.

Venezuela is already in the fifth stage of the protocol aimed at activating the Petro currency, the signature of the "White Paper" where the functions, vision and conditions regarding the bitcoin are specified. "We've reached the Future. Venezuela moves forward as an Economic Power", President Maduro said.


"The experts have already created the white book on Venezuela to be officially published. The "White Paper" on the Petro", Maduro said. For further information, President Nicolás Maduro exhorted the Venezuelan citizenship to visit the Web Site www.elpetro.gob.ve.


"Venezuela is now at the vanguard with the World. Let's celebrate permanently the activation of the bitcoin "The Petro", President Maduro affirmed.

The Petro is supported on the Venezuelan diamond, gas, oil and gold reserves. "We've been taking every step for the activation of the public and private auction by February. Every miner in Venezuela will be able to start mining. The Venezuelan bitcoin will be mined and it will runn accross the whole World", President Nicolás Maduro stressed.

"The most powerful countries of the World have already created their own bitcoins after Venezuela's announcement", the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro concluded.


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Video, courtesy of Luigin Bracci Roa

(VIDEO) Young Venezuelan Ballerina Wins Contest “Ballet Beyond Borders” in USA

Fabiana Piñero

Fabiana Piñero

By: Aporrea / Agencies

Jan 29th - The young Venezuelan ballerina Fabiana Piñero, member of the Ballet de la Mar company, from Margarita island (State of Nueva Esparta) accomplished the 2nd Place in the international competition "Ballet Beyond Borders" celebrated in Missoula, Montana, United States, between January 09th and 13th, this year.

This was announced by the ballet coach Martha Ildiko, director of the company Ballet de la Mar. Fabiana attended the contest thanks to a scholarship obtained after having won last year the Silved Medal in the A division, from the 9th Grand Prix of the "Active Dancing" contest in Panama.

It's worth standing out that the directive board of the course didn't want to leave aside the dancers from countries with political and economic problems, as well as natural disasters. Therefore, they opened a special chapter for includying them through a video. This allowed the participation of a huge amount of dancers from diverse places of the world. The remarkable ballerina Micaela de Prince was the jury in this edition.



Fabiana Piñero participated with the variation"Nights of Walpurgis". "I'd like to grant Fabiana Piñero the Second Place. As soon as she walked on the stage, she captured my total attention. Her technique and art were wondeful. She really played with music, and she seemed to be enjoying herself. It was a great opportunity for her to prove all she has to offr. I hope to see her grow. Congratulations", Micaela de Prince said.


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Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology Suffered Cyber Attack

 By: Press OEP

Jan 29th.-Last Wednesday January 24th, 2018, in a public act celebrated at the auditorium of the Faculty of Humanities of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV, in its Spanish accronym), the Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology was officially launched. The event counted with an important audience. Two days later, their Web site www.ecologiapolitica.org suffered a massive cyber attack on Thursday morning.

The team reports their followers and the people in general that the process of restoration of all inconvenients of their Website is already in course. Likewise, the team wants to thank all solidarity messages received, as well as reaffirming their steady commitment to move forward beyond any threat or aggression.



Emiliano Terán Mantovani
Francisco Javier Velasco Páez
Liliana Buitrago
Edgardo Lander
Esteban Emilio Mosonyi


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(VIDEO) Yorlando Conde: Village of La Gaviota Might Supply Venezuela with Sardines

Yorlando Conde assured that La Gaviota might supply Venezuela with sardines

By: Aporrea TV

Friday, January 24th, 2018 .- Yorlando Conde, a man of theater and a social fighter for long time, offered to us an interview at his home-studio last Sunday January 14th. He spoke to us about his beginning, his origin, his formation, and he told us about his experience and participation in the project La Gaviota, located in Cumaná, state of Sucre (in the north east coast of Venezuela).


Yorlando told us about the creation of the theater, in La Gaviota. Also, about his relation with workers and about how this process developed a higher production in a fish processing plant.

The workers became actors by talking about their own lives. To the creative and artistic process, the development of a revolutionary consciousness unfolded. This allowed them to accomplish the control of the activities in the fish processing plant. The levels of production boosted meaningfully.

La Gaviota might supply Venezuela with sardines, Conde assured.

We offer this interesting interview to the community of Aporrea with this 80-yr old fighter who believes in a better and more fair world, and willing to continue in the revolutionary cause.

Read and see the full interview video in Spanish, here https://www.aporrea.org/ideologia/n319822.html

600 Venezuelans Deported from Cúcuta

They were in a temporary camp in the Sevilla slum

Inhabitants of the Sevilla slum celebrate the departure of Venezuelans with their flag

This is how the Venezuelans were deported

Venezuelans are transferred in trucks of the army towards the Venezuelan border

Other Venezuelans were transferred to the frontier with Ecuador

 Source: Web

Jan 25th, 2017.- 600 Venezuelan citizens were deported from a camp installed in a sports court in the slum Sevilla, located in the city of Cúcuta, in the frontier with Venezuela. They were transferred to other Colombian areas, to the border with Ecuador and, most of them, back to Venezuela. The Venezuelans deported were transferred in commercial buses and in trucks of the Colombian army.


After having been rejected by the inhabitants of Sevilla - they were even victims of an attack with molotov bombs - the Colombian authorities decided that those citizens with a passport be sent to Rumichaca (the main bridge between Colombia and Ecuador), the Major of Cúcuta, César Rojas, announced in a video published in social networks.

27 Venezuelans were sent to Ecuador. The Venezuelans with their documents valid and Colombian-Venezuelan citizens were taken to other regions of Colombia with their relatives, several local media reported. The rest, 218 citizens were deported back to Venezuela.



Several Colombians and Venezuelans, and children of Colombians to return to Colombia, stayed in a sport court in Sevilla: a slum of 45,000 inhabitants at the east of Cúcuta. However, the locals proteted during the last days the presence of the Venezuelans by demanding their exit out of the slum, not having taken in consideration the presence of compatriots of them as refugees in that court. The ones in transit, because of the crisis in Venezuela, have not been considered as displaced yet, nor received any solution the way Venezuela has established before, within its policies of inclusion and social protection.

There are approximately six million Colombians in Venezuela. Up to the date, they have enjoyed the same rights as the Venezuelans, and to the moment there haven't been any protest in rejection to their presence in Venezuela yet.

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Camp of Displaced Venezuelans in Cúcuta Attacked with Bombs

The Major of Cúcuta, César Rojas, extended until January 24th to sack them from Colombia

Camp of Displaced Venezuelans in Cúcuta Attacked with Bombs

By: Aporrea/Agencies

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Flaming bombs were launched this Monday January 23rd at night by a group of young Colombians against a camp of 900 Venezuelan citizens who remain in a basketball court in the city of Cúcuta (Colombia).

A group of residents from the Sevilla slum were captured as having been allegedly responsable for the attack that didn’t leave any wounded nor casualties.

 “This must be a cohabitation among communities. We are brother nations and we cannot this play this kind of show at international level of harming Venezuelans”, the Major of Cúcuta, César Rojas, said on his Twitter account.

The inhabitants of the Sevilla slum started this Monday a massive protest, that includes the blockage of roads, because of the arrival of approximately 900 Venezuelan citizens to that sector.

According to the Sevilla inhabitants, the Venezuelans had installed camps in the stadium of the área baptized by them as “Hotel Caracas”.

“Anyone ilegal in Colombia must leave the country. Those who are legal, will be helped to be displaced to other parts of the country. By this Wednesday January 24th the term to leave the Sevilla slum expires”, the local leader of Cúcuta said.

According to a research, more than 35,000 thousand Venezuelan citizens enter daily to Colombia to flee from the social, political and economic crisis in Venezuela.

Source:  Diario Los Andes

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Fernando del Rincón and Óscar Pérez

By: Luisana Colomine | |

Two stars, one the same show: One of them, a journalist. It'd be better to say, someone from the CNN show business. The other, a cop: A character from the most radical Venezuelan oppositionism, self defined as “a Nationalist”. Both of them, after the same aim: Sacking President Nicolás Maduro. Their weapons? The one uses his ideological missiles: Propaganda armor. The other, “Noisy grenades”, “Heroic” and “Outrageous” actions. Regarding the semiotics of the image, there is something here stuffed with meaning: Both guys fill the standards of the Hollywood entertainment industry. They're both attractive men. Both, blue-eyed. Both, with a sharpened and full a fiery enraged speech. Both, “Influencers” of the social networking system. The “Conclu” night, they served the bouffet for the subsequent actions that came later. Although then, none of them imagined the final outcome.

The CNN journalist, Fernando del Rincon, in year 2017 devoted himself, according to the author's research, at least three of his five weekly TV programs to the “Crisis in Venezuela”, with negative contents on our country. At least 98%  of his spopemen belonged to the MUD (the opposition to Maduro's government). That says a lot of their “imparciality”. In year 2013, President Chávez's disease was the recurrent topic. This allowed the assurance of a captive audience in the “mayamera” and "criolla" Venezuelan opposition. In 2017, he offered himself to the service of the “Guarimbas” (Barricades). Therefore, it was not odd having him interviewed Óscar Pérez by the end of the second week of this barely starting new year, 2018.

We witnessed the “Show” on @Twitter. We were surprised by the tone the journalist used before an Óscar Pérez and two people of his “team” (who did not talk among each other) without any malice to answer to the questionnaire. Pérez, with a plain and inconsistent speech, proved to be more a pragmatic rather than a polititian. Del Rincón was astonishingly harsh to the ex CICPC officer. When Pérez detached himself from the MUD leaders, by having accused them of having sold their consciousnesses, the other reacted with rage, as if he also belonged to that organization. He said the people didn't trust him, because with all the things he had done, he was still free. He even also persuaded that all of that had belonged to a plan by the Venezuelan government to discredit,  even more, the “already decaying MUD”. The “Conclu” host interrupted continuously the interviewed. He also didn't let him finish his phrases. Phrases, Pérez always used to begin with “First and foremost”.

Now, after the events in El Junquito, Del Rincón continues the show. He spreads the 15 videos that according to the journalist Francisco Urreiztieta (from Univisión), Pérez recorded in a dreadful chronicle of his own death. Del Rincón becomes himself the echo of the world media domination and he says, “Óscar Pérez was executed by Maduro's government”, when the only one “executed” here has been the truth. A truth we all expect to know in depth...

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(VIDEO) Panamanian Rapper Insults Venezuelan Women in New Song

By: Aporrea-Agencies 

December 13th, 2017.- The rapper Mr. Saik led the most recent episode of chauvinism against the Venezuelan community in Panamá, one of the main migration destinations for Venezuelans in the last years.

Saik published this Tuesday on his Instagram account an excerpt of a song referring with despise to all Venezuelan women as easy.

“All envy they are, for in their country she was a star. Now she’s into something else… oops! What a tasty little thing! She's famous in the corner. Give her Harina Pan, and she gives you bread, bread”, a part of the song says.

The video was shared with the message: “Now come and comment”, immediately received replies of repudiation on his Instagram account. The rapper erased the post in less than two hours.

Irrael Gómez, a famous networking expert rejected the post and stressed on the xenophobia against Venezuelans.

“There’s no xenophobia in Panama: I invented it myself. What would Wyznick Ortega say from this video, or what would the TV host who either acknowledges the Panamanian chauvinism; or even Sara Faretraque, a Venezuelan woman, but since she Works there she says “don’t listen to me”. I would never ask my followers to see the last post of this crap. I would never tell them to comment on this and then denounce it as spam. I’d never do it. Honest”, Gómez stressed.

See the Chauvinist video against the Venezuelan women, by the Panamanian rapper Mr Saik

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PROVEA on Óscar Pérez: The State did not Exhaust the Ways Towards a Peaceful Resolution

 


Jan 15th, 18.- The non-governmental organization PROVEA spoke on Monday, January 15th, about the procedure that the police authorities executed against the former CICPC official, Oscar Pérez, this Monday in El Junquito. Several omissions by the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Ombudsman's Office led to the death of seven Venezuelan citizens.

"The State did not exhaust the path for a peaceful resolution and led to the outcome of deaths and injuries in the capture operation of Oscar Pérez. The presence of the Public Ministry and the Ombudsman's Office would have generated the guarantees for a peaceful solution and  the respect for the lives of all", Provea said on its Twitter account.

"Omissions by the Public Prosecutor and the Ombudsman's Office in guaranteeing the life and integrity of those involved in the operation led to the death of seven Venezuelans. That same silence is the constant endorsement that both organs give to human rights violations that occurred in operatives such as OLP.", Provea added.

According to the human rights NGO, the Government is responsible for the life and integrity of pilot Oscar Pérez, who expressed his intention to surrender to the authorities.

He also attributed the "silence of the" prosecutor " Tarek William Saab in the case of Oscar Pérez" as an "endorsement" for the commission of abuses against the #DDHH in police proceedings.

"Every minute of official silence increased the risk on the integrity and life of the people detained during the search operation of pilot Oscar Pérez and companion. The risks of torture and forced disappearance rise amidst the increasing silence and lack of communication", he said.

"There must be urgently detailed information on the casualties, wounded and detained people during the search operative of the pilot Óscar Pérez". He also considered as "scarce" the statement by the Public Ministry.

 According to Provea, the People's Defender Alfredo Ruíz "must explain the country what efforts ade to avoid the death of seven Venezuelan citizens in the search of Óscar Pérez. Preserving the right to life is his constitutional duty".

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Military Tribunal Imprisons Photographer Héctor Pedroza for Having Published Images of Protests in Aragua

The Photographer Héctor Pedroza

Credit: Web

Jan 15th,18.- The Venezuelan Union of Press Workers (SNTP in its Spanish accronym) denounced this Monday Jan 15th on its Twitter account the detention of the photographer Héctor Pedroza, for having published pictures of the protests in the state of Aragua against the government.

Pedroza was accused of "instigation to the rebellion and terrorism". He will be recluded at the military prison of Ramo Verde.



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Venezuela: A Camuflaged Financial Embezzlement?

By: Aporrea.org 

Credit: Archive

Credit: Archive

Jan 14th, 2018.- The traffic of Venezuelan bills has become the new financial scheme amidst the “lack of cash” in the country. The pledge for cash has become massive. The comments are common among the citizens, “We're living a camuflaged embezzlement”.

In the banking entities long lines are made to get cash and only give 5, 10 or 30 thousand bolivars, which does not even cover many times the value of the passage between one city and another.

The traffic of cash has reached prices from 30% and up to 100%. "We are wrong. The government does not get enough paper money for this problem to be fixed. The workers can not cover the expenses of the food with our salary, to pay in points of sales they take away a percentage to us and we stick long lines. To get cash we also take a high percentage. We are living a hell, "said a man who made a long queue to pay 1 kg of rice with a point in Bs 90 thousand.

The concrete complaint of the general citizenship is that they must take measures that really solve the financial embezzlement. "We saw how the government decided to penalize the usurers who sell cash, but when going to the bank you can not get more than 30 thousand (hopefully) because the answer is always the same" the remittance has not arrived "so? How long are we going to get the government to denounce that the ticket is going to Colombia and not take truly effective measures to overcome the problem of cash? "This was stated in the Mercado de Catia by a lady with whom we talked informally.

A sector of the population considers that the government "only takes effectist measures" "The SUNDDE goes to the supermarkets, only when a large queue is made, and businesses sell cheap Then, everything returns to the whirlwind of prices to Dollar Today". So it was with the measure of "taking prisoners to usurers" that's fine, but for that to be functional they have to issue the bills that cover the national demand. Each bolivar in electronic banking must be backed by its equivalent in bills, that's what I think. I want my little salary to be able to get it out in cash. I'm sick! "Said another woman who was trying to buy" some food "in the aforementioned Municipal Market.

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The Petro: A Weapon Against the Financial World Offensive

By: Prensa Web RNV / Aporrea.org | |

Max Keiser, host of the famous TV show Keiser Report on Russia Today, affirmed on his twitter account @maxkeiser, that the bitcoin initiative was a good way to fight against the US imperialism that drowns the Venezuelan economy.

 

Max Keiser, host of the TV Show Keiser Report on Russia Today published on his Twitter account  @maxkeiser, that the bitcoin initiative was a good way to fight against the US imperialism that drowns the Venezuelan economy.

 

Credit: @enrikecido

Jan 10th. 2018 – There is a real rampage by the national and international right wing against the Petro. The reason is very simple. With this bitcoin, the Venezuelan state will be able to make financial transactions inside and off the country without controls nor obstacles imposed by Washington with its illegal actions against the Bolivarian Government.




According to the renowned American economist Max Keiser, who hosts the TV show Keiser Report on Russia Today, this initiative is a good way to fight against the US imperialism that drowns the Venezuelan economy, Keiser said on his Twitter account @maxkeiser.



President Nicolás Maduro made a gigantic step towards the consolidation of an innovative financial tool that will prevent any interference in the commercial exchange and the raising of capital.
Para Keiser, con este anuncio el presidente Nicolás Maduro dio un paso gigantesco para consolidar una innovadora herramienta financiera que no permitirá injerencia alguna en la captación de capitales y en el intercambio comercial.



“The problems in Venezuela are mainly caused by the US imperialism. The “Petro” bitcoin is an excellent way to break the colonial chains. Avoiding sanctions is simple. Creating the firsr sovereign currency is also simple. Venezuela can join the fight to overthrow the dollar”, Keiser affirmed.



“The bitcoin might solve the problems of Venezuela and even create the foundation for a great recovery if handled and designed correctly”, he stressed.



Therefore, debts can be paid, the inflation can be faced as well as the shortage maneuvers through this virtual currency, Keiser said.



The Dogs Bark
This explains why the Web Site Dolar Today, spearhead of the US and Colombia attacks against Venezuela, has started a powerful campaign to discredit the Petro among the people and potential investors.



This Website affirmed the US State Department would fine natural or juridical persons to acquire the new virtual currency. The Petro is supported by the natural resources of the Venezuelan state.



It's no chance that the National Assembly, with an opositionist majority, had approved an “agreement” to cancel the decree of President Maduro to create the Petro.



The Venezuelan rightwing think tanks have started the campaign “Everyone Against the Petro”, similar to “Eveyone Against Chávez” or “Everyone Against Maduro”, always aimed at overthrowing the Bolivarian Revolution and its policies of social inclusion.



Entrepreneurs Invited to Belong to the Ecosystem
The National Bitcoin Superintendent, Carlos Vargas, invited entrepreneurs and the people in general in the TV show “Con Amorín” to join this new economic system,and to trust this innovative tool.



“There is a big patriot entrepreneurship who still roots for Venezuela. We have a big group of merchants who continue to bet for Venezuela, yet suffer the ravages of the induced markers. We invite them to belong to the Petro ecosystem. Do it. Te experts recommend it. There is no danger”, he said.



"We are proceeding to generate the conditions for all entrepreneurs and merchants to be certain that, their bolivars will be protected through this exchange tool. They will be able to continue doing business with Venezuela, to estabilize the economy. This will be successful”, Vargas stated.



"Our currency has a support. Our assets are supported by certificates that guarantee the existence of an important amount of approximately five billion oil barrels on a georeferenced area called Ayacucho Block. That wealth supports our currency”, he said.



Regarding Mining and the Miners



The bitcoing mining farms are constituted by interconnected computers, through a specialized software in charge of the currency functioning. These spaces are handled by specialists who contribute and guarantee the reliability of the system.



The mining basically compets with other miners for the mathematical problem solving (by using very powerful computers) aimed at earning the right to add a new page to the public accounting book of the bitcoin mined and presented in blocks.



Thanks to this activity the miners are rewarded (every time they add a block to the bitcoin) with bitcoings whose origin could be the commissions the users pay for the confirmation of their transactions in the shortest time possible and the newly issued bitcoins according to the emission calendar established.



The Bolivarian Government started a process from December 22nd 2017 until January 21st to all those who participate in the digital mining to register and legalize their job. Those who remain illegal will run the juridical consequences.




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