February 2nd marks the 12th year anniversary of the inauguration of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and the beginning of the counties’ Bolivarian Revolution. Some of Venezuela’s most impressive achievements include: A reduction in poverty by 44% between 1998 and 2008 according to the United Nations Development Program and the OAS, a fall in unemployment from 16.8% in 2003 to 7% in 2010, an increase by 10 places on the Human Development Index of the United Nations from 1998 to 2008, and the near obliteration of illiteracy.
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Co-sponsors: Alliance for Global Justice, ANSWER, BlackCommentator.com, FMLN Committees of Washington DC, MD, VA, The Institute for Policy Studies’ SALSA prgram, and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign.