For the defender of Human Rights, Rafael Narváez, current Minister of Interior and Justice Tareck El -Aisami must be removed from office because he has not implemented the mechanisms necessary to keep Venezuelans secure, particularly in light of the comment that "Caracas is the second most violent city in the world, followed by Carabobo, Lara, and Puerto Ordaz. Worldwide Ciudad Juárez in Mexico and Caracas are ahead of Brazil and Colombia. " Narváez said these words following a study reflecting that "112,224 people have been killed over the past 10 years." The human rights advocate said that 98 percent of those crimes go unpunished due to the shortcomings of the public prosecutor's office. So far this year the murdered include 94 children and adolescents, 39 police officers, 107 auto drivers, 400 robberies have been committed on public transport and 831 people have been subjected to express kidnappings. He explained that there are currently 15 million guns uncontrolled in the streets "without any of the 10 ministers who have been applying the policy of disarming the population"
According to the Secretary of Policy and Institutional Relations of the government of Carabobo, Jesús Enrique Gánem Arenas, the effective date of the Urban Land Act will allow agencies to implement the content of these rules and have the power to seize any property it deems necessary without prior legal process. "With the passage of the law, a high degree of discretion is given to those officials and agencies responsible for enforcing this rule, be it courts, municipalities and other entities that have jurisdiction over what to do with land located in urban areas," Gánem Arenas said. What the law establishes is almost an attack on property rights, enshrined in the constitution. "This is a clear sign that the precepts and constitutional traits are becoming more vulnerable in a climate of legal uncertainty in the country," he said.
"It is not possible that in a state where land produces so much, there are people who go hungry," said Miranda state governor, Henrique Capriles Radonski during his presentation of the Zero Hunger plan. The state government will be a pioneer in implementing this strategy, a successful initiative of Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, which has been taken up in other Latin American nations like Colombia and Mexico, among others. "All good things, good ideas, we must import them. We evaluate the experience of Brazil's Zero Hunger programme and so we decided to implement it in Miranda. In Venezuela there are thousands of hungry people, and our state has a little more than 32,000 families in extreme poverty, that is, some 128,000 people. During the first phase of Zero Hunger we aspire to care for about 10,500 families, which means about 50,000 people will overcome hunger in Miranda," he said.
According to official figures from the National Statistics Institute (INE) from the first half of 2009, there are 9 million poor Venezuelans, 2.5 million of whom are in extreme poverty, which means that almost 10% of the population "does not have a full diet," said the national coordinator of Primero Justicia, Julio Borges. Borges said these poverty levels are unusual because the government has received more than $950 billion in revenue since it began its mandate, so that "if we take out the bill, every Venezuelan family would correspond to Bs 900 million, calculated at the exchange rate that the government insists on not mentioning." Borges added that according to a recent study conducted by the polling firm Datos, the poorest sectors of the population have lost up to 14% in purchasing power in the last year, so they had to make readjustments in "what they eat and the products they buy."
President Chávez yesterday reiterated his threat to cut power from large commercial centers of the country and other recreational sites, such as motels, whom he has expressly singled out before. "The Sambil of Chacao mall in Caracas consumes more electricity than many localities," he said, "so either they buy the plant or cut the light." Chávez has referred in the same terms to motels and resorts. Yesterday he faulted the president of the National Federation of Electrical Workers (Fetraelec), Ángel Navas, by demanding higher wages at a time when the sector is in crisis. "I doesn't appear to me to be a reasonable attitude (...), unless they want to sabotage the plan" Chávez said. Navas has insisted that the crisis in the sector also includes "a labour dispute due to the stalemate in negotiation of three economic clauses in the collective agreement for the industry."
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