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“Si tengo que ser juzgado, bienvenido sea. Me pongo a derecho para que se investigue lo que se tenga que investigar. Si algo me enseñó Chávez es a no ser cobarde”.

La noche de este lunes, el conductor del programa La Hojilla, Mario Silva, rechazó el audio presentado por el diputado opositor Ismael García, que reproduce una supuesta conversación entre el comunicador popular y un oficial cubano de apellido Palacios. Silva calificó el audio de “bodrio” y responsabilizó al grupo Al-Mossad de la acción en su contra. 

A través de un comunicado que él mismo leyó, Silva dijo: "Rechazo categóricamente todo el montaje expuesto por el diputado Ismael García, es absolutamente falsa la grabación presentada por la ultraderecha". 

“Jamás, nunca, me verán en la acera de enfrente”, aseguró el conductor, al tiempo que ratificó “su apoyo irrestricto” al legado del Comandante Hugo Chávez Frías; a la Revolución Bolivariana; al presidente de la República, Nicolás Maduro; a todas las instituciones; al presidente de la Asamblea Nacional, Diosdado Cabello; y a las autoridades militares; al pueblo”, de quienes dijo "han sido agredidos una y otra vez por los que trafican con la muerte y no cejan ni cejarán jamás en exterminar el legado de nuestro Comandante supremo Hugo Chávez".

También dedicó unas palabras al pueblo cubano, que pretende ser vinculado en el “bodrio”: "Una vez más la ultraderecha arremete contra el pueblo cubano, contra el comandante Fidel Castro, contra el comandante Raúl Castro, contra los internacionalistas cubanos, contra las misiones, contra la bondad de todo un pueblo que solo nos trajo salud, educación y deporte, y mucha dignidad".

Agregó: “La campaña en contra de Cuba y su valiente pueblo comenzó desde el mismo instante en que la oligarquía percibió la amistad inquebrantable que unía al comandante Fidel y al comandante Chávez”.

Silva denunció que “el acoso del Mossad se evidencia a partir de un sobrevuelo no autorizado y neutralizado por autoridades” sobre las instalaciones de la emisora MK 104.5FM que él mismo dirige. Explicó seguidamente que el discurso grabado pudo haber sido hilvanado con “fragmentos de audio y expresiones” de las distintas emisiones de La Hojilla, transmitida durante nueve años, y Sobre el nido del Cuco, espacio radial que se ha emitido durante un año ininterrumpido. 

"¿Saben ustedes cuántos audios pueden extraerse del programa La Hojilla en televisión y Sobre el nido del Cuco en radio?", inquirió. “Sabemos de qué manera se hacen esos montajes” y podemos ejemplificarlo con lo que sucedió en la pasada campaña con el propio Diosdado Cabello para “presentar situaciones vrtuales”, agregó. 

“Verdugo no pide clemencia, no es simple retórica. Si tengo que inmolarme por la Revolución Bolivariana, lo haré con mucho gusto y con la plena convicción que me inculcó el Comandante supremo Hugo Chávez”, dijo enfático. 

La derecha nunca fue un “enemigo fácil”, expresó el conductor. “Sabemos que nunca va a claudicar en su afán de ver derrocada la Revolución Bolivariana. Por ello no nos extraña que se haya ejecutado un plan casi perfecto de descalificación y entierro de La Hojilla y sobre todo de Mario Silva como comunicador social ante el pueblo venezolano”.

"He decidido ponerme a derecho para que las instituciones hagan lo que deban hacer. No les temo a los fascistas y mucho menos a la justicia que en buena hora vino a sustituir lo más perverso de la Cuarta República. No le temo a sujetos perniciosos como Ismael García, tránsfuga que ha venido a representar lo más putrefacto del fascismo que pretende instaurar la oligarquía parasitaria". 

“Si tengo que ser juzgado, bienvenido sea. Me pongo a derecho para que se investigue lo que se tenga que investigar. Si algo me enseñó Chávez es a no ser cobarde”.

Dijo poner a disposición su espacio La Hojilla, que “nunca fue mi programa, siempre fue del Comandante supremo Hugo Chávez y de la Revolución Bolivariana, como también y por orden directa de mi Comandante siempre fue de Nicolás Maduro y del pueblo guardián del legado de Chávez”.

“Siempre con Chávez y Maduro. Hasta la victoria siempre”, concluyó la lectura de su comunicado.

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VSC UPDATE: One Month after Venezuela's election the Right-Wing Opposition & US destabilisation continues

One month after Nicolas Maduro won Venezuela's Presidential election, the country's right-wing Opposition are still refusing to accept the result and respect the will of the people, whilst conducting an orchestrated campaign of destabilisation in Venezuela. In this they are backed up by Washington, with the US Government still failing to follow Spain, France, the UK, Portugal and countries from across the globe in recognising Maduro's Presidency. This e-update looks at the truth behind the anti-democratic attempts to discredit Venezuela internationally, the increasingly hostile attitude of the US administration and how Latin America is united behind Maduro.

1)Audit of Venezuela's Presidential vote reveals 99.98% accuracy

Venezuela's independent National Electoral Council (CNE) has concluded the first stage of the audit  of the vote initiated following April's Presidential election and has found "zero error". With 75% of the vote now audited, the level of accuracy with the first result is 99.98%

The audit came about after the losing candidate, Henrique Capriles, refused to accept the result of April's presidential election, that saw Nicolas Maduro elected, and instead claimed that fraud had been committed.

Whilst initially requesting and accepting a process that will mean 100% of all the votes were audited, Henrique Capriles has since said he will not recognise these results.

Commenting on the results of the audit Venezuela's Ambassador to the UK Samuel Moncada said: "This audit once again underlines the robustness and accuracy of Venezuela's voting system. That is why Nobel Prize winner Jimmy carter called Venezuela's electoral system the 'best on the world'

We had already had 18 audits of the election process for April's presidential vote and Henrique Capriles campaign team signed off all of these. Yet they now claim fraud and won't even accept the results of an audit they themselves had demanded.

It seems that Henrique Capriles is simply trying to sully the reputation of Venezuela's electoral process for political purposes rather than raising genuine concerns about Venezuela's voting system".

·         This report from Venezuela's independent National Electoral Council outlines the process of audits carried out during the presidential election which took place on 14 April.

2)Summary of CEPR pieces: The opposition is intent on trying to maintain a climate of uncertainty and political tension for as long as possible

Recent articles in the Venezuelan and international press, suggest that the Electoral Council’s rejection of the opposition’s demands is stoking the flames of political conflict in the country. However, as is often the case in the media’s coverage of Venezuela, much of the crucial context on the recent decisions of the National Electoral Council is missing.

Henrique Capriles, after the CNE announced that he’d lost the elections by a narrow margin of around 270,000 votes, refused to accept the results and immediately called for a recount, though other opposition spokespeople called instead for a “complete audit” of the voting machine receipts. 

After first calling on his supporters to take to the streets, leading to violent clashes in which nine people were reportedly killed, Capriles finally formally filed a set of demands to the CNE. Subsequently, on April 18th, the CNE agreed to audit the remaining 46% of boxes of voting machine receipts that had not yet been verified (54% of the boxes had been previously verified in the presence of witnesses from both parties AND signed off by representatives of the Capriles' supporting right-wing opposition). 

This decision was made in order to keep the peace, despite the unfounded nature of oppositions complaints, and the fact that according to calculations by David Rosnick of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the odds that auditing the remaining 46% of votes could reverse the outcome of the election are 1 in 25 thousand trillion. What many fail to mention in their most recent articles is that Capriles accepted the CNE’s April 18th decision to proceed with the audit of the remaining voting receipt boxes, and said that the opposition would participate in the process. 

To understand the baseless nature of the opposition claims, one must understand the secure nature of voting in Venezuela: 

When they enter the voting cubicle, Venezuela’s are faced with a voting machine, which they access by electronic thumbprint recognition. After the voter has made their selection the machine produces a paper receipt, the voter then checks that this matches their vote, and posts it into a sealed ballot box, before finally signing and leaving a finger print in a voting record book to confirm that the receipt accurately represented the choice they had made using the electronic voting system. 

Having had their request for all full audit of the boxes of paper receipts met, the opposition now claims that it is in these books the fraud has been committed. However no complaints were made by voters to the CNE that their paper receipt failed to match the vote they had made. 

It is clear that, in their latest demand for all full count of the 15 million signatures and fingerprints found in the voting record books, the opposition is intent on trying to maintain a climate of uncertainty and political tension for as long as possible. 

·         This piece was based on a piece by Alex Main of the US organisation the CEPR. Read the full article at http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/9034

3)British & Irish Official Election Witnesses Write to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee

The official election witnesses from Britain and Ireland to Venezuela’s April election have written to Richard Ottoway MP saying that,

“In Venezuela, we witnessed why Nobel Prize winner and former US president Jimmy Carter called the country’s voting system the “best in the world”. The digital voting system and its system of allocating everybody a paper receipt makes it almost impossible to commit fraud. The rigour of the process signed off by both campaign teams in the localities before, during and after the election as well as independent observers, makes the system much more secure than that in the UK. That is why we are assured that the election result, whilst close, was a fair and accurate reflection of the people’s will.”

·         You can read the full letter at http://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/british-irish-official-election-witnesses-write-to-the-chair-of-the-foreign-affairs-select-committee

4)Growing Concern at US Intervention and Hostile Comments

Venezuela’s government has rejected comments made by U.S. President Barack Obama about the country and accused Washington of being behind right-wing violence that has followed its recent presidential election. A foreign ministry statement said that Obama’s “interventionist declaration” will lead toward deteriorating relations between the countries and “confirms to the world the policy of aggression his government maintains against our country.”

The statement referred to comments the U.S. president made to Spanish-language television network Univision during his trip to Mexico and Costa Rica. In the interview, Obama wouldn’t say if the United States recognizes Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela’s new president following his election on April 14, that has been recognised around the world. Obama also said that reports indicate that basic principles of human rights, democracy, press freedom and freedom of assembly were not observed in Venezuela following the election.

·         Read the full piece at http://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/growing-concern-at-us-intervention-hostile-comments/

5)Successful Visits to ‘Southerm Cone’ see Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay Issue Strong Support for Nicolas Maduro as the Legitimate President of Venezuela

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff: "I'm sure that with President Maduro, I will have the same high-level relationship that I had with President Chávez."

President Nicolas Maduro’s successful visit to Brazil concluded his recent tour of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) member states. The visit, the first overseas trip of Maduro as President comes ahead of another event at the end of June when he will officially take the Chair of Mercosur.

Visiting regional heavyweight Brazil, Maduro won a seal of approval from President Dilma Rousseff, who pledged to expand trade with Venezuela. A day earlier, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had mobilized pro-Venezuela activists to fill a Buenos Aires soccer stadium and signed a range of bilateral cooperation accords with Maduro, and prior to this Maduro visited Uruguay.

·         Read the full piece at http://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/successful-visits-to-southerm-cone-see-brazil-argentina-uruguay-issue-strong-support-for-nicolas-maduro/

Chavismo is new independence for the homeland

Caracas, 16 May. AVN.- As the new independence of the country and new 21 century socialism described Thursday Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro the revolution started by supreme commander Hugo Chavez and his legacy.

"It means the new independence of the Venezuelan homeland and the Latin American great homeland," said Maduro starting his government of the street in Barinas state, adding that Chavismo is the new socialism assumed by people to build a homeland.

"Chavez and Chavismo are more alive than ever and they will be alive for the years to come, with his work strengthening today as collective effort," said Maduro.

As a matter of fact, he said that through civic-military unity, the Bolivarian Government is shaping a new system of people and efficient administration, since it inherited Chavez's patriot and pro-independence legacy.

As Barinas is Chavez's hometown, Maduro took the opportunity to greet the entire family Chavez Frias, people and Armed Force who saw growing "the giant of the 21 century, Commander of all times, our father, guide, breeder of the new homeland, Hugo Chavez."

The Government of the Street is being deployed Thursday at states Barinas and Tachira, informed last Wednesday night President Nicolas Maduro.

"We will take the proposals raised by commander Hugo Chavez in the different hubs of development to those states. One of them is economics, industrial development and trade. We will meet with socialist and private ventures to achieve it," Maduro said.

 AVN 16/05/2013 14:31

US Scholars ask New York Times to Investigate Bias Against Venezuela

About twenty United States scholars, among them writer Noam Chomsky and film maker Oliver Stone, sent a letter to Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor for The New York Times, urging Sullivan to investigate the biased reporting on Venezuela and particularly when dealing with the government of the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez.

The petition claims the New Yor Times has used a language too close to the U.S. government’s positions in the past four years, referring to Chavez as an “autocrat,” “despot,” “authoritarian ruler” and a “caudillo” in its news coverage.

Besides, “when opinion pieces are included, the Times has published at least fifteen separate articles employing such language, depicting Chavez as a ‘dictator’ or ‘strongman’.”

The experts compare The New York Times’s characterization of Hugo Chavez to that of Honduras in 2009, when president Manuel Zelaya was overthrown and replaced by Roberto Micheletti, and then by Porfirio Lobo.

“Times contributors have never used such terms to describe Micheletti, who presided over the coup regime after Zelaya’s removal, or Porfirio Lobo, who succeeded him. Instead, the paper has variously described them in its news coverage as ‘interim,’ ‘de facto,’ and ‘new’.”

The signed petition reminds as well that Porfirio Lobo assumed the Honduran presidency after winning elections which “were marked by repression and censorship.” Also, “since the coup, Honduras’s military and police have routinely killed civilians.”

In addition, the scholars explain that “while some human rights groups have criticized the Chávez government, Venezuela has had no pattern of state security forces murdering civilians, as is the case in Honduras.”

Over the past 14 years, they say, 18 elections have been carried out in Venezuela, which have been deemed free and fair by leading international authorities.

“Jimmy Carter praised Venezuela’s elections, among the 92 the Carter Center has monitored, as having ‘a very wonderful voting system.’ He concluded that ‘the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world’.”

The petition has been made due to a column released by the NYT editor last April, in which she said that “although individual words and phrases may not amount to very much in the great flow produced each day, language matters. When news organizations accept the government’s way of speaking, they seem to accept the government’s way of thinking. In The Times, these decisions carry even more weight.”

In this connection, the US scholars request coherence between her speech and the Times’s coverage of certain topics.

“We urge you to examine this disparity in coverage and language use, particularly as it may appear to your readers to track all too closely the U.S. government’s positions regarding the Honduran government (which it supports) and the Venezuelan government (which it opposes)—precisely the syndrome you describe and warn against in your column” the scholars say in the letter.

15 mayo, 2013  http://www.sibci.gob.ve

FAO praises Venezuela's commitment on food and nutrition security

Caracas, 13 May. AVN.- The representative of Venezuela to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Marcelo Resende, praised "the behavior, attitude and commitment of the government of Venezuela on food security and nutrition, not only in its speech but as an integral component of its policy of international cooperation."

In a press release issued Monday by the organization, Resende highlighted the words of President Nicolas Maduro, who during his inauguration he said: "Ambassador of FAO, in my Government we will continue the legacy of Chavez: 'Zero Hunger' and we will do what needs to be done."

During the recent tour to Mercosur partner countries, conducted by the Venezuelan president, new agreements on food and nutritional security were signed, "which shows the commitment of the Venezuelan government for the topic and strengthens cooperation in this matter," Resende stressed.

Similarly, he stresses "the strengthening of technical capacities for the development of agriculture in the country as well as the solidarity of food trade between the neighboring countries."

For FAO representation in Venezuela, it is cause for celebration that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff supports her counterpart in the project of making "agri-food revolution" in the Bolivarian nation.

"The understandings held with the Government aim to place the issue of food sovereignty and the issue of supply in their cooperation treaties by addressing two dimensions: first, boosting domestic production of agriculture by promoting the exchange of technical experiences with neighboring countries and, on the other hand, boosting solidarity and fair trade of foods from family and peasant agriculture," said the representative.

 AVN 13/05/2013 15:26