October 31, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The following document is the political platform on which Hugo Chavez successfully sought re-election as the president of Venezuela. It was released in Spanish in June 2012. English translation courtesy of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Canberra, Australia.

Proposal of the Candidate of the Homeland,

Commander Hugo Chávez,

for the Socialist Bolivarian Government, 2013–2019

INTRODUCTION

I

Once again the circumstances have made me stand in front of the people to let them know about my determined and renewed commitment towards the defense of National Independence. This is the time, like never before, to give a face and a meaning to the Socialist Homeland we are all fighting for. This government program for the period 2013 – 2019 has been designed to pursue these supreme goals:

Independence and Socialist Homeland!!

As our Liberator had said, back in 1820: We are unswervingly determined to win independence or else. Final independence or else should be the motto of today’s Bolivarian men and women. Final independence is our cause and our permanent task.

Independence, from the point of view of the present circumstances and context, makes us look into the past to find a true course towards the future. That is why we, men and women, confront the reactionary thesis of the empire and the bourgeoisie that is contrary to the Homeland, with the combatant, creative and liberating thesis of Independence and Socialism, which is an open project and dialectical construction: Independence is not complete; we are forging it through our daily and permanent struggle.

It is our task to fully realize the liberation dream that has never ceased to throb in our Homeland and is still throbbing today. And so I believe, based on the combatant faith and the loving reason that encourage me: we feel obliged by our heroic legacy, and such an urge becomes a banner and a commitment for all of us, men and women. In the times we are living in we must face up to these challenges; so many sacrifices can not be rendered futile. Turning them into the flesh and blood of the new life shall continue to be the ultimate aspiration that compels and defies us.

II

This is a program for the transition to socialism and the radicalization of a pre-eminent and participatory democracy. We start from the principle that the speeding up of transition necessarily requires the speeding up of the process of reinstatement of people’s power. The dynamic, effective and full exercise of the pre-eminent people’s power is an indispensable condition for the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st century. That is precisely the reason why it is the fundamental basis and the vertex of the ‘Simón Bolívar’ National Project. The First Socialist Program for the Social and Economic Development of the Nation 2007 – 2013. During this cycle that is about to conclude, our projections have categorically emphasized the strategic role of this Program which, in this next cycle, shall become all the more strategic.

We shouldn’t let ourselves be deceived: the social and economic system that still prevails in Venezuela is a capitalist and rentier system. Certainly, socialism has just begun to impose on us its own internal dynamics. This is precisely a program to strengthen and consolidate socialism, looking for a radical suppression of the logic of capital. This program should be implemented step by step without slowing down our advance towards socialism.

In order to move towards socialism, we need a people’s power capable of disarticulating the oppression, exploitation and domination plots that still exist in the Venezuelan society. People’s power should be able to shape up new social relations in our everyday life, where fraternity and solidarity go hand in hand with the continued emergence of new forms of planning and production of material wealth for our people. To achieve that, it is necessary to completely pulverize the bourgeois State that we have inherited, which is still being replicated through its old and nefarious practices, and ensure continuity in the process of creation of new forms of policy management.

However, in what context, both in Our America and the world, are we giving life to a socialist alternative model? It is evident that Our America is living through a change of epoch that took off –and it is only fair to recognize it- when the Bolivarian Revolution came into power: a change of epoch that is characterized by a true and real change of power relationships in favor of the big majorities. It is likewise evident that the capitalist system/world is going through a structural crisis that could be terminal: a crisis that, given its catastrophic dimensions, compels us, from the political point of view, as Martí would have said, to clarify and anticipate events -as in fact we have been doing- to minimize its impacts on Venezuela. But there is an encouraging sign that I would like to emphasize: an international multipolar system oriented towards that great principle that Bolivar called ‘the equilibrium of the universe’ has begun to lay its own foundations.

III

I propose this program in the belief that only through a broad-base discussion among the grassroots and the leading participation of the people we would be able to further perfect said program and tap its full and creative potential.

This is a program that intends to trespass the “point of no return”. In the words of Antonio Gramsci, the old must finally end so that the birth of the new can be manifested to the full.

The coherence of this Government Program is based on a course of action that is absolutely crucial: we are forced to trespass the point of no return and make our transit to socialism irreversible. Certainly, it is difficult to know exactly when this great horizon will become visible, but we should deploy significant and well aimed efforts in the interest of its advent –as Bolivar advised.

Founding ourselves anew, as the Constitution states, is a necessity that admits no delay, because if we lack that vital instrument we would lose an opportunity to complete the people’s historical and heroic deeds that were first worked by our ancestors and for which we feel ethically responsible. The consolidation of the Fifth Socialist and Bolivarian Republic is the most beautiful and enlightening validation of the more than two centuries of struggle and sacrifices.

Our past, our entire past, is still alive and has taught to us that we have been and will continue being a product of adversities; but it has also taught to us that, thanks to those adversities, we have been able to collectively envisage that which can not be put off any longer, which is clearly reflected in this Government Program: to have a Homeland, at long last; to win an independent and sovereign Homeland for our children and our children’s children; an everlasting and happy Homeland where we have always wanted to live; the Socialist and Bolivarian Homeland that, as fate has inexorably will want it, will succeed next October 7, 2012, at the Carabobo battle of the 21st century. The Ecclesiastes states so: “…and in their times all things pass under heaven…”

Building this Homeland so that you, Venezuelan compatriot, men, woman, mother, father, youngster, girl and boy could live well, with justice and dignity is what encourages my struggle and is one of the main reasons I live for, in the company of my loved ones, my son, my daughters and my parents.

My suggestion to you is that we keep on struggling, as our singer Alí Primera used to say: “…for the dawn of a new world…”, for the dawn of a Socialist and Independent Homeland where we can live by living, inspired by the loftiest values of humanism. My beloved people, I, a soldier at your service, have put all my heart and soul in this endeavor.

Issued in Caracas, the country of birth of the Liberator, Simón Bolívar, on June 12, 2012.

Hugo Chávez Frías

Independence and Socialist Homeland!!

We Shall Live and We Shall Win!!

Program of the Homeland







INTRODUCTION The document that we are today submitting to the consideration of the Electoral Power, but especially to the consideration of the hardworking and heroic people of Venezuela and its combatant youth, is a draft electoral program that gives continuity to and improves on some of the strategies contained in the First Socialist Program of the Simón Bolívar Nation, which are being fully developed and implemented. We should point out that the second Socialist Program for the period 2013 – 2019 is being drafted already. It is an updating of the strategic chart that should guide us through the transition towards the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st century and includes five historical objectives, namely: I. Defend, expand and consolidate the most treasured asset we have reconquered after 200 years: National Independence. II. Continue building the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st century in Venezuela as an alternative to the savage and destructive capitalist system and ensure “the highest possible social security, political stability and happiness” for our people. III. Turn Venezuela into a social, economic and political power as part of the Great Emerging Power of Latin America and the Caribbean to ensure the creation of a peace zone in Our America. IV. Contribute to the development of a new International Geopolitics that gives rise to a multicentered and multipolar world that would allow for the achievement of the equilibrium of the Universe and ensure peace on the planet. V. Preserve peace in the planet and save the human species. The first of them relating to the consolidation of our Independence refers mainly to the set of national and strategic political, economic, social and cultural goals whose scope will allow us to lay the foundations for the irreversibility of national sovereignty. It takes into account the need to ensure the continuity of the revolutionary process, which means to achieve the most overwhelming popular victory in the presidential elections of October 7, 2012. To this end, the unity of all workers, small and medium producers in the countryside or the city, as well as all other social sectors will be crucial. Likewise, it is aimed at preserving the sovereignty over our oil resources in particular and our natural resources in general. This, in turn, will have to be translated into a stronger ability to make a sovereign use of our national income. Food sovereignty and the full use of our agricultural potential shall be another strategic objective. Equally crucial for the achievement of this first goal is the full development of our scientific and technological capabilities by creating the necessary conditions for the development of an innovating, transformational and dynamic model oriented towards a better use of the national potentialities and capabilities as well as the need to consolidate our identity as a nation and as part of Our America, based on the Bolivarian principle that “America is Our Homeland”. Finally, this first major goal includes the strengthening of the national defensive power by consolidating the civil-military unity and increasing the operational preparedness of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces for a General Defense of our Homeland. The second major historical goal relates to the ways to build our socialism in order to achieve supreme happiness for our people. It will be necessary, first and foremost, to accelerate the change of the economic system, moving away from the capitalist oil-oriented rentier-like model to a socialist production economic model, thus making way for a more just and egalitarian society and moving on to socialism, with the support of the Social and Democratic State and the Rule of Law and Justice, with the aim of moving on towards the full satisfaction of the basic needs of our people: food, water, electricity, housing and the habitat, public transportation, health, education, public safety, access to culture, freedom of communication, science and technology, sports, wholesome recreation and decent and liberating jobs. All of the above has to do with the necessary promotion of a new ethical, moral and spiritual hegemony that would allow us to get rid of the vice of the old capitalist socialist model that have not totally disappeared. In this regard, a special reference should be made to the expressed purpose of continuing to move on to the development of a public safety model for the protection of human life and ultimately revolutionize the justice administration system to do away with impunity, ensure equal access and eradicate any classist and racial bias in its implementation. Finally, in order to pursue this second major goal, our strategy should be to unleash the power contained in the Bolivarian Constitution, thus allowing for the ultimate establishment of the new Social and Democratic State and the Rule of Law and Justice by means of the consolidation and expansion of the people’s power through the Missions, the Socialist Grand Missions and the self-government in specific settlements and territories organized into communities, among other policies. The third major historical goal, which is to turn Venezuela into a social, economic and political power as part of the Great Emerging Power of Latin America and the Caribbean to ensure the creation of a peace zone in Our America is oriented towards the consolidation of the political, economic and social power for which we require, among other things, the ultimate establishment of the new Social and Democratic State and the Rule of Law and Justice and the strengthening of stability and peace in the nation. Furthermore, this historical proposal includes the strategic objective of developing the national economic power by making an optimal use of the potentialities of our own resources. Likewise, there is an intention to expand the military power to defend the Homeland by strengthening the Venezuelan military industry and strengthening the new Bolivarian military doctrine and the national geopolitical development. This includes a commitment to continue playing a leading role in the process of construction of the Latin American and Caribbean unity, supporting the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and PETROCARIBE and providing increased dynamism to the new regional fora: the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). The fourth major historical goal is about to continue looking for a multicentered and multipolar world, without imperial domination, with absolute respect for the self-determination of peoples. Finally, it states the need to continue joining efforts to dismantle the neo-colonial system of imperial domination by eliminating and reducing to nonviable levels the economic and technological relations of our country with the imperial domination centers, among other purposes. The fifth major historical goal is about the need to build an eco-socialist economic production model based on a harmonious relationship between man and nature that guarantees the rational and optimal use of natural resources while preserving the processes and cycles of nature. In this regard, it is necessary to ratify the defense of the sovereignty of the Venezuelan State over the vital natural resources. This fifth grand historical goal is an appeal to join efforts in support of a world movement to eradicate the causes and reverse the effects of climate change that occur as a consequence of the predating capitalist model. This Program of Government for National Independence and Socialism that we are presenting is nothing but an invitation to a broad debate of ideas and proposals among the Venezuelan people in order to elaborate the Second Socialist Plan of the Simón Bolívar Nation (2013 – 2019) and continue to create the great historical democratic and popular block made up by workers, peasants, students, afro-descendants, indigenous populations, scholars, small and medium rural and urban producers, business people, teamsters, motorists, teachers, health professionals and public servants in general, women, military, settlers, fishing people, cultural representatives, sports people, community and trade union leaders and specially the Venezuelan youth. To achieve that –in the words of our Father, Simón Bolívar- ‘unity is indispensable for the work of our regeneration’. Carabobo Campaign Headquarters





MAJOR HISTORICAL GOALS I. Defend, expand and consolidate the most treasured asset we have reconquered after 200 years: National Independence. “Fellow countrymen! I feel embarrassed to say it: independence is the only asset that we have acquired at the expense of others. But it opens the door for us to win others back under your sovereign auspices, with all the splendor of glory and freedom.” Simón Bolívar, Bogotá, January, 1830. This year marks the Bicentennial of our Independence. Our times are filled with the heroic legacy our people have inherited, that is in our blood and in our soul. We are once again waging a battle, with realized and unrealized dreams in the context of the Bolivarian revolutionary process, in an all-out struggle to finally recover and consolidate the Independence that we had lost. We are inspired by the resistance of the indigenous people, the rebelliousness of African descendants, the independentist feat, the Federal Revolution, the Restorative Revolution: we are inspired by Guaicaipuro, Tamanaco, Terepaima, Andresote, José Leonardo Chirino, Francisco de Miranda, Simón Rodríguez, Antonio José de Sucre, Ezequiel Zamora and Cipriano Castro. And our major source of inspiration, our highest referent, is the Liberator Simón Bolívar. Historically speaking, the profound mutations of Venezuela, an oil-producing, obviously “semi-feudal” country, with a prevalence of latifundia and an export-oriented agriculture, did not generate significant transformations in the way to steer the nation’s destiny. Quite on the contrary, there was an increased dependence to the detriment of peasants, workers, laborers and popular sectors. Foreign domination, with an unprecedented capital inflow after the appearance of the “black gold”, found the table set by submissive governments of all kinds. It was in that context that the oil-exporting Venezuela was born: it became an oil factory subordinated to the consumerist and belligerent model imposed by the Yankee imperialism; a repressive and neo-colonial capitalist regime which had sunk the glorious and noble people of Venezuela into the harshest material and moral misery had been born. Only the honorable and courageous resistance put up by the patriotic majority of the Venezuelan people and its honest leaders in the struggle against the dictatorships of the 20th century, the civil and military rebellions of the 1960s, the combative mobilizations of successive generations of young students and the huge popular and military rebellions of February 27, 1989; February 4 and November 27, 1992 saved us from the total destruction as a sovereign nation. On December 6, 1998, the Bolivarian Revolution, inspired by the awareness and dignity of the people, initiated the disintegration of the neo-colonial hegemony. Thirteen years of Bolivarian Revolution have made us recover political independence. Today, Venezuela has a sovereign, Bolivarian government that does not follow the dictates of the empire or the bourgeoisie. Today we have a people who feel very proud of its cultural and historical roots and we are fully immersed in a process to recover the control over our natural resources and revenues. That is why the first major historical goal for the next socialist and Bolivarian term of office will be to defend and consolidate the most treasured asset we have acquired: political Independence; reaffirm our identity as a nation and as part of Our America and continue to move on in the context of an audacious international geopolitics towards our full economic independence. II. Continue building the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st century in Venezuela as an alternative to the savage capitalist system, and ensure “the highest possible levels of social security, political stability and happiness” for our people. “We do not want socialism in Latin America to be an imitation or a copy.

It must be a heroic creation.” -- José Carlos Mariátegui, 1928. The crisis that is currently facing the so called developed countries is a consequence of the imbalances and contradictions inherent to the capitalist system. The voracity to accumulate more and more wealth is leading not only to the irreversible destruction of the environment, but also to the multiplication of countless sufferings and hardships among millions of human beings. Never before had humanity suffered such an atrocious inequality. Meanwhile a handful of persons and companies monopolize gigantic fortunes made through financial maneuvers and excessive speculation at the expense of the misery of the majority of humanity. In 1949, Albert Einstein wrote: "I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate the grave evils (of capitalism), namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.” We, the men and women who are building the Bolivarian Revolution have shared that conviction from the very beginning by announcing that we should plot a different course, benefiting from the experience of other countries while learning from their mistakes; starting from our own values and learning from the lessons of our Father, the Liberator, and the great thinkers of Our America. In 2004, the Bolivarian Revolution proclaimed its anti-imperialist character and in 2006 it declared itself as socialist. The principles advocated for by the Revolution have remained unchanged: we don’t want to stay under capitalism; it is indispensable that socialism settles in Venezuela as a broad and open way towards the supreme social happiness. We are struggling for a society where the great values of Christianity are fully realized. During the next socialist and Bolivarian term we will continue to shape up a system of production relations based on the values of knowledge and labor, aimed at the satisfaction of the human needs of our people: food, water, electricity, clothing, housing and habitat, transportation, health, education, culture, science and technology. To achieve that it is crucial to develop the social ownership over the strategic and basic means of production so that every family and every Venezuelan citizen could fully enjoy their economic, social, political and cultural rights and live well. Let us all, I the next term, achieve the second major historical goal: to continue building and consolidating the foundations of the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st century to dismantle the inhuman, predating and belligerent capital accumulation system and go beyond the logic of capital that supports it. III. Turn Venezuela into a social, economic and political power as part of the Great Emerging Power of Latin America and the Caribbean to ensure the creation of a peace zone in Our America. During the next decade, Venezuela should consolidate as a regional and universal power. We Venezuelans should feel that the pre-eminent and participatory democracy is in fact something real and tangible and power should be preserved to ensure the irreversible character of the Homeland’s sovereignty. The progress achieved by the Bolivarian process should serve as a basis to continue consolidating the political power, recognized as the consummation of the return of power back to the people and the full exercise of the socialist, pre-eminent and participatory democracy as the political basis for National Unity. Only in this way could we gain the necessary strength to successfully participate in this complex international context. The advance and consolidation of the participatory and pre-eminent democracy requires the consolidation of the value of human life and its defense from an essentially ethic point of view where solidarity and the value of human beings prevail over capitalist values according to which having is a condition for being and consuming is a condition for existing. To shield ethics in the exercise of power is crucial to build the Nation’s Moral Power. Turning Venezuela’s economy into a power in areas such as energy, agro-food industry and industry compels us to consolidate the progress achieved in the development of the regulatory framework and the sovereign investments policy so that the national wealth is used to improve the life of our people and build a world of justice and peace. It is likewise required that the Nation, the soldiers of the Homeland, with the support of the people, continue to strengthen the Nation’s military power, which is vital in the all-out defense of our Homeland. During the next term of the socialist and Bolivarian government we will achieve the major goal of unleashing the full potential of the Homeland of Simón Bolívar by creating a historical popular and democratic block made up by the working class, the professionals and the urban and rural small and medium producers.

IV. Contribute to the development of a new international geopolitics that gives rise to a multicentered and multipolar world that would allow for the achievement of the equilibrium of the Universe and ensure peace on the planet. Following the mandate of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, the foreign policy of the Bolivarian Revolution will deploy all its efforts to “achieve a system of guarantees that, whether in times of peace or war, shall be the shield of our new destiny”, that is, an international environment that guarantees the Independence of the Homeland aiming at the full implementation of a sovereign national project. Inspired by the harmonious vision that characterizes the cosmogony of our indigenous populations and the Bolivarian concept stating that the international political action should tend to conform “the equilibrium of the Universe”, the foreign policy of the Bolivarian Venezuela will promote the creation of a multipolar world whose ultimate end is the preservation of peace based on the respect and sovereignty of peoples. As we have stated in different fora, this multipolar world shall consist of a multiplicity of force poles, that is, country groups, so that there could be a better universal equilibrium, more universal democracy and more equality in the world. During the nest term of the socialist and Bolivarian government we will continue to make progress in this indispensable task to ensure peace in Venezuela and the world. V. Contribute to preserve life in the planet and save the human species. At this historical juncture, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in accordance with the ethical principles of socialism, is raising the flag of a struggle necessary to carry our, both nationally and internationally, an effort to change the depredating development model that capitalism has imposed on the world during the last three centuries through the menacing expansion of the voracious market economy. In this struggle we will do all the necessary sensible and well oriented efforts to revert the causes and effects of the devastating environmental crises that attempt against the life of human beings on Earth. For that it will be necessary to take short and medium term actions to recover the equilibrium on Earth and support the productive economic processes of human beings based on the respect for the earth cycles and its regeneration processes through the establishment of a different kind of relationship between human beings and nature. This new socialist development alternative model requires the leading participation of men and women, with the new values of the ‘living well’ concept, in support of an ecological and socially sustainable economy. This would only be possible under socialism as the only alternative to the capitalist depredating model that has already failed. This new model will truly implement the mandate given by the Earth Summit held in 1992: ‘meeting the needs of the present generation without

jeopardizing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.’ Our country will struggle in the field of sensible environmental issues at the national, regional and multilateral levels with special emphasis on the struggle against climate change, the transformation of the unsustainable production and consumption models and the defense of a new social, ecological and socialist model as the only planetary alternative to guarantee life. Within the United Nations Organizations we will promote the construction of a “New International Ethical and Social Architecture” that could enable us to define the New International Agenda for Human and Sustainable Development.



MAJOR HISTORICAL GOALS AND NATIONAL OBJECTIVES I. Defend, expand and consolidate the most treasured asset we have reconquered after 200 years: National Independence. National Objectives 1.1 Guarantee the continuity and consolidation of the Bolivarian Revolution in power. 1.2 Preserve and consolidate the country’s sovereignty over the oil resources and all other natural strategic resources. 1.3 Guarantee the sovereign management of national income. 1.4 Achieve food sovereignty to guarantee the sacred right to food. 1.5 Develop our scientific and technological capabilities according to people’s needs. 1.6 Strengthen national defense to protect independence and national sovereignty, thus preserving our country’s wealth and resources for future generations. II. Continue building the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st century in Venezuela as an alternative to the savage and destructive capitalist system and ensure “the highest possible social security, political stability and happiness” for our people. National Objectives II. 2.1 Promote the transformation of the economic system to carry out the transition to the Bolivarian socialism, moving from the capitalist oil-oriented rentier-like model to a socialist production economic model based on the development of the productive forces. 2.2 Build a just and egalitarian society. 2.3 Consolidate and expand people’s power and socialist democracy. 2.4 Promote a new ethical, moral and spiritual social orientation based on the liberating values of socialism. 2.5 Achieve the ultimate establishment of the new Social and Democratic State and the Rule of Law and Justice. III. Turn Venezuela into a social, economic and political power as part of the Great Emerging Power of Latin America and the Caribbean to ensure the creation of a peace zone in Our America. National Objectives III. 3.1 Consolidate Venezuela’s role as a World Energy Power. 3.2 Develop the nation’s economic power based on the optimal use of the potential that exist in our natural resources in order to provide maximum happiness to our people and create the necessary material basis for the construction of our Bolivarian socialism. 3.3 Organize and expand the military power to ensure the defense of the Homeland. 3.4 Further develop the new national and regional Latin American and Caribbean geopolitics. IV. Contribute to the development of a new International Geopolitics that gives rise to a multicentered and multipolar world that would allow for the achievement of the equilibrium of the Universe and ensure peace on the planet. National Objectives IV. 4.1 Continue playing a leading role in the construction of the Latin American and Caribbean unity. 4.2 Consolidate our identity as a nation and as part of Our America. 4.3 Continue to promote the development of a multipolar world without imperial domination with full respect for the self-determination of peoples. 4.4 Contribute to dismantle the anti-historical and nefarious imperial and neo-colonial system. V. Preserve peace on the planet and save the human species. National Objectives V. 5.1 Build and promote the eco-socialist and productive economic model, based on a harmonious relationship between man and nature that guarantees the rational, sustainable and optimal use of natural resources while preserving the processes and cycles of nature. 5.2 Protect and defend the permanent sovereignty of the State over the natural resources for the supreme benefit of its people, which shall always be its main guarantor. 5.3 Defend and protect the Venezuelan historical and cultural patrimony. 5.4 Contribute to the creation of a big world movement to eradicate the causes and reverse the effects of climate change that occur as a consequence of the predating capitalist model.





MAJOR HISTORICAL GOALS AND NATIONAL OBJECTIVES

I. Defend, expand and consolidate the most treasured asset we have reconquered after 200 years: National Independence.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.1 Guarantee the continuity and consolidation of the Bolivarian Revolution in power.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.1.1 Achieve a solid, combative and joyful victory in the presidential elections of October 7, 2012, that would raise the morale of the Venezuelan people and all peoples in the world in their struggle for emancipation.

1.1.1.1. Consolidate the unity of the working class, the professionals and the rural and urban small and medium producers; as well as the social movements and organizations that support the Bolivarian Revolution.

1.1.2 Carry out all the necessary political actions to guarantee that the electoral process takes place in an environment of stability and ensure that our people’s sovereign will is peacefully recognized.

1.1.1.2. Call upon all democratic and honest sectors of the country to contribute to the peaceful celebration of the electoral process.

1.1.3 Prepare for the defense of the people’s will through popular organization and the democratic exercise of the State’s authority.

1.1.3.1. Strengthen and defend the State’s Public Powers.

1.1.3.2. Strengthen the awareness and the sectorial and territorial organization of our people.

1.1.3.3. Expand the people’s organization for the all-out defense of the Homeland.

1.1.3.4. Enhance the capabilities of State’s security organs to guarantee political stability and peace in the Nation.

1.1.4 Strengthen and expand the People’s Power so that the people are in fact the power.

1.1.5 Preserve, recover and the capabilities of local and regional governments to consolidate the return of the power back to the people.

1.1.6 Continue to build the communications hegemony, so that all voices are heard in Venezuela.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.2 Preserve and consolidate the country’s sovereignty over the oil resources and all other natural strategic resources.

The sovereignty over natural resources is a concept that presupposes the guarantee of using those resources for the humanist and naturalist purposes of socialism. Thus, we will have sovereignty to the extent that we are free to exploit, administer and use them for these purposes. This can not be separate from politics.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.2.1 Maintain and guarantee the State’s control over Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.

1.2.2 Guarantee the hegemony of the national oil production.

1.2.3 Secure a majority participation in joint ventures.

1.2.4 Maintain and guarantee the State’s control over state-run companies that exploit mining resources in the national territory.

1.2.4.1. Consolidate and strengthen a state-run company for the exploitation of mining resources.

1.2.5 Secure the necessary means for an effective control over the strategic activities and other related to the industrial production line for the exploitation of hydrocarbon resources.

1.2.5.1. Strengthen the actions carried out for an effective control of the strategic activities related to the oil industry.

1.2.5.2. Consolidate an effective control over the key activities of the oil and gas value chain.

1.2.5.3. Promote and encourage scientific research and technological development with the purpose of guaranteeing the key operations of the oil industry.

1.2.6 Guarantee the necessary means for the effective control of the strategic activities related to exploitation of mining resources.

1.2.7 Strengthen the coordination of oil policies within the OPEC.

1.2.7.1. Advocate for policies for an appropriate pricing of oil.

1.2.8 Create a pricing policy coordination body for gas.

1.2.8.1. Promote mechanisms for an appropriate pricing of gas.

1.2.9 Create the conditions to exert an influence on the pricing of minerals.

1.2.10 Raise the political and ideological awareness of the people and the oil and mining workers and encourage their active participation in the defense of the natural resources of the Nation.

1.2.10.1. Strengthen the political and social significance of the oil industry.

1.2.10.2. Promote the participation of the workers in the oil industry’s activities planning.

1.2.10.3. Strengthen and consolidate the political participation of the people and of oil and mining workers.

1.2.11 Encourage and promote coordination among major oil producing countries.

1.2.12 Defend the Nation’s ownership over the strategic non-oil mineral resources, making the best of the processing of raw materials and adding value to them. Special attention shall be given to the productive chain concept over and above the mere exploitation of reserves. In addition to iron and bauxite, whose production levels have earned Venezuela world recognition, there are other minerals with a huge potential to serve the best national interests, such as gold and coltan.

1.2.12.1. Guarantee the sovereign use of the natural resources of the country to satisfy the domestic demand and the best national interests.

1.2.12.2. Maximize the State’s fiscal mechanisms to guarantee the sovereign managements of the benefits that may derive from the patrimony of the Republic.

1.2.12.3. Elaborate a comprehensive and prospective inventory based on a national technological platform and promote the introduction of new techniques aimed at the efficient use of the natural resources of the country to serve its sovereign interests.

1.2.12.4. Serve the best national interests through the State planning and administration of all forms of ownership in strategic sectors, aimed at guaranteeing the incorporation of these resources to the productive process and ensure people’s enjoyment of and access to all goods and services.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.3 Guarantee the sovereign management of national income.

The sovereign management of national income presupposes the ability to earn it and use it for socialist, humanistic and naturalistic purposes. The State should be so designed to ensure that the administration of the national income serves the purpose of leveraging the new society.

Given our condition as oil-rentier country –a condition that should be reversed by means of a transformation towards a socialist productive model-, our national income is based on the development of oil production. Thus, in order to guarantee a sovereign management of incomes it is necessary to control oil production through a national, popular and revolutionary policy.

That policy has to be national because it deals with the administration of resources that are a property of all Venezuelans, which compels us to administer them for the benefit of the entire Nation. Through a national management of these resources we intend to achieve absolute control of oil production in the country as established by the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela which states very clearly that the State, as representative of the collective interest of all Venezuelans, is the owner of subsoil resources, and in this particular case it is the owner of petroleum and gas hydrocarbons. This policy should integrate the entire country in the defense of our main wealth: It is certainly a policy that concerns all Venezuelans and there should be no differences whatsoever around it.

Besides, the management of oil production should have a popular character, because it must be guided by people’s interests and should promote the participation of the working class to achieve the best possible interrelation with the people. In order to develop that policy we require the support of the people. The people must be a key actor in every sector, not only through the representation of the Venezuelan State but also through the workers and communities.

Finally, our oil policy should be a revolutionary policy and this has to do with who is the one who earns the oil income and how that oil income is earned and distributed. There is no doubt that the State should be the one that earns and controls the oil income, based on mechanisms that could maximize its value and make it possible to distribute it for the benefit of the people and promote a more just and equitable comprehensive social development of the country. This is the element that makes it different from any other oil policy.

Therefore, in order to guarantee the national, popular and revolutionary character of this policy we should put the oil income to the service of the people. This means that the State should be the one that earns and controls the oil income. Likewise, in order to make the best use of that income, the State should follow a sovereign policy that controls the resources and their maximum value as a fundamental requisite to ensure the collection of fair revenues. Then we should see to it that the oil income is invested in projects, plans and programs that guarantee a comprehensive social development under the guidance of the National Revolutionary and Bolivarian Government, according to the development plans of the Nation.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.3.1 Maintain and strengthen the current oil taxation system, which underwent many positive changes since 1998, as is shown in the diagram below:

Tax Taxation system 1998 CURRENT ISLR 34% 50% Royalties 1% – 16,67% 30% Extraction tax 0% 3,33% Export Registry Tax 0% 0,1% Surface tax 0% 100 UT x Km2 %

1.3.2 Maintain and strengthen efficient mechanisms to absorb the surplus income as a result of extraordinary and exorbitant increases in hydrocarbons world prices.

1.3.3 Establish and develop a mining taxation system as well as efficient mechanisms to collect the revenues resulting from mining.

1.3.3.1. Systematize and control the production of strategic minerals.

1.3.3.2. Strengthen the revenues collection and taxation systems.

1.3.3.3. Restructure and establish royalty’s rates applicable to the sale of different minerals.

1.3.3.4. Review and systematize specific royalty agreements for each strategic mineral.

1.3.4 Establish mechanisms to control the marketing of strategic materials.

1.3.4.1. Create State entities for the marketing of strategic materials.

1.3.4.2. Establish transparent mechanisms for the pricing of strategic materials.

1.3.5 Strengthen and consolidate financial agreements with strategic partners.

1.3.5.1. Maintain and expand the Chinese-Venezuelan Joint Fund. The Chinese-Venezuelan Joint Fund has come to be an extraordinary financing mechanism for the Venezuelan State, since this is a bilateral cooperation structure agreed between the governments of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the People’s Republic of China, whereby significant financial resources are received and are later on paid off with the supply of crude and by-products.

This instrument has made it possible for the country to consolidate a new geopolitics based on the diversification of the markets. Likewise, this mechanism allows for the allocation of resources specifically for the development of the country, the construction of infrastructure works of national interest, the promotion of small and medium industries and the strengthening of chains of production and the supporting infrastructure required to further up economic growth.

This Joint Fund has been financially structured based on conditions that are highly beneficial for the country, as different from the reality facing the international financial markets, since it maximizes the use of energy, thus achieving a balance in financial costs.

Ate the close of 2011, the Republic has received a total of 32 million dollars through this mechanism with which we have developed and are developing:

· Infrastructure projects, such as trains, highways, maritime ports and telecommunication networks;

· Social projects, such as housing, hospitals and health care centers;

· Energy development projects, such as oil refineries, natural gas processing plants, oil and natural gas pipelines, liquid gas processing plants and projects for the extraction, transportation and marketing of coal;

· Projects for the transportation of crude and oil by-products and the construction of tanks;

· Industrial integration projects, such as the construction of merchant ships and other enterprises associated to the production of natural gas, the manufacturing of fertilizers and chemical products;

· Projects for the automotive industry;

· Agro-industrial projects, factories for the assembling of high-tech products and companies that provide services to the oil industry. Industries for the manufacturing of steel and aluminum and mining companies.

That policy implemented by the Bolivarian Government has allowed us to become independent from multilateral financing organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Thanks to this initiative we have managed to recover economic autonomy, negotiations flexibility and national sovereignty to be able to establish alliances with other non-traditional financing sources.

1.3.5.2. Promote the creation of financing mechanisms similar to the Chinese-Venezuelan Joint Fund.

1.3.5.3. Promote the creation of trust funds for the financing of infrastructure projects.

1.3.6 Maintain and consolidate the cooperation and complementarity agreements with allied countries.

1.3.6.1. Strengthen and expand the Energy Cooperation Agreements (CCE).

The Energy Cooperation Agreements were created after a proposal made by the Bolivarian Government to materialize the energy unit among peoples. This will work as a geopolitical enabling factor that could allow for the use of energy resources to promote the establishment of more just, fraternal and efficient relations in the struggle against poverty thus reducing the economic and social asymmetries.

The Energy Cooperation Agreements welcome the principles of energy integration, solidarity, complementarity, fair trade, promotion of investments in Latin America and special and differential treatment to nations according to their capabilities.

These initiatives share the historical and fundamental purpose of combining the capabilities and strengths of the countries that are parties to them aiming at a joint definition of great lines of common political action among States that share a common vision about the exercise of sovereignty, thus developing an identity of their own.

Argentina, Uruguay, Nicaragua and Cuba have been signatories of some of the main energy agreements. These agreements have worked as payment mechanism for the oil, goods and services that are necessary for the country’s social comprehensive development, namely, agricultural products, machinery, power plants, health services, medical equipment, among others.

1.3.6.2. Strengthen agreements in the context of PETROCARIBE.

The PETROCARIBE energy cooperation agreement was signed by 14 nations of the Caribbean region. It was intended to solve the existing asymmetries in the access to energy resources through a new favorable, fair and equitable commercial exchange system among the countries of the Caribbean region.

PETROCARIBE has been conceived as an alliance capable of ensuring the coordination and articulation of the policies related to energy, technological cooperation, capacity building, and development of the energy infrastructure as well as the use of alternative sources of energy. Its main objective is to contribute to energy security, social and economic development and the integration of Caribbean and Central American countries through the sovereign use of the energy resources.

At the close of 2011 18 nations had adhered to this important integration and cooperation mechanism.

1.3.6.3. Strengthen ALBA.

1.3.7 Design and implement new and efficient mechanisms to ensure people’s participation in oil income management through investments and savings.

1.3.7.1. Strengthening and expansion of new saving mechanisms for the Venezuelan people, such as the National Workers’ Savings Fund and the Popular Savings Fund.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.4 Achieve food sovereignty to guarantee our people’s sacred right to food.

We intend to fully develop our agricultural production potential: 3. 665.780 hectares of high fertility lands for the production of vegetables; 12.830.230 hectares of low fertility lands to grow vegetables and pastures and 27.493.350 hectares for rangelands and forestry.

Inventory of agricultural lands in Venezuela

Nº Classification Area (hectares) Percentage of the national area (%) Potential use of land 1 Lands for the production of vegetables 3.665.780,00 4% Vegetables 2 Low fertility lands for vegetables and pastures (limitations) 12.830.230,00 14% Vegetables and cattle 3 Rangelands and/or forestry 27.493.350,00 30% Forestry and cattle Total: 43.989.360 hectares

The agricultural lands inventories that have been made in the country have shown that approximately 2 per cent of the national territory has no limitations In terms of climate, soil, drainage or unfavorable topographic conditions.

We have also realized that through the mass application of the technologies developed by our agricultural workers and research centers we could reach a potential figure of 4 per cent that could be used for a wide range of uses (food crops, grasslands or forestry); some 14 per cent could be devoted to a limited number of crops (food crops, grasslands or forests resistant to excessive humidity, drought and low fertility lands; 30 per cent to crops, grasslands and forests highly resistant to strong limitations and low fertility lands, sever droughts or floods; and the remaining territory shall be left for natural covers such as forests or savannahs for the purpose of conservation or protection or to offer environmental services such as the production of water and the preservation of biodiversity.

These potential and feasible figures, when compared with the population rates that we expect to have in the next decades, indicate that we have enough land to meet our needs in terms of food production and environmental services, provided we make a rational use of them.

In the context of the Great Mission Agro-Venezuela, whereby a total of 684 883 producers have been registered in the entire country, we can satisfy our food needs with our national production, with emphasis on the productions of cereals, legumes, root crops and tubers, vegetables, beef, poultry, pork, eggs and milk, as well as marine and inland fisheries and aquiculture, thus increasing the daily availability of locally produced energy, proteins, fats and carbohydrates per inhabitant to meet up to 90 per cent of the nutritional requirements of Venezuelans, while creating a surplus production in cereals, fruits and tropical crops for export.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.4.1 Eliminate latifundia once and for all. To carry out an agro-ecological organization and zoning process based on the use of the land, and creates a rural cadastre system to ensure a fair access and rational use of soils.

1.4.1.1. Increase the agricultural area for short season vegetables by at least 42 per cent, going from 2.88 million hectares to 4.12 million hectares per year at the end of this period.

1.4.1.2. Expand the agricultural area under irrigation from 178 000 hectares to 538 000 hectares for the year 2019, which accounts for a 202 per cent increase.

Irrigation systems Area under irrigation Year 2012 (hectares) Area under irrigation Year 2019 (hectares) % Increase Irrigation System Río Guárico 32.000 38.000 19% Irrigation System Río Tiznados 3.000 32.000 967% Irrigation System Jose Inácio de Abreu e Lima 1.400 35.000 2.400% Irrigation System Las Majaguas 21.450 26.000 21% Irrigation System Planicie de Maracaibo 2.600 20.000 669% Irrigation System Valle de Quíbor 1.200 26.000 2.000% Small and Medium Irrigation System 116.685 361.723 210% NATIONAL TOTAL 178.335 538.723 202%

1.4.2 Accelerate the democratization of the access by peasants, producers as well as the different collective forms of production and socialist enterprises to the resources necessary for production (land, water, irrigation, seeds and capital) while promoting the rational and sustainable use of them.

1.4.2.1. Incorporate to the agricultural machinery stock 110 000 tractors, 30 000 harvesters and 400 seeding tools based on the development of the national assembling and manufacturing industry. Collective forms of production shall be given priority to use those.

1.4.2.2. Strengthen the highway program (maintenance and construction of new highways) and the rural electrification program with the creation of highway equipment brigades and units by the National Bolivarian Militia, the Peasants and Community Councils, the Free and Associated Producers Networks, the Mayors’ Offices, the Provincial Governments and the National Institute for Rural Development.

1.4.3 Consolidate a set of public policies in support of production, the organization of the rural sector and the participation of peasants’ people’s power organs in planning, such as increased investments by private banks and the State, under the guidance of the Bolivarian Government, in the comprehensive rural development through the construction of infrastructural works, the financing of small and medium producers, the implementation of projects to produce food and the development of and investment in science and technology; the consolidation of socialist agro-industrial production systems; access to plant and animal genetic resources adapted to tropical conditions; the promotion of fisheries development through the modernization of the fleet and the maritime and river fisheries infrastructure and the local production of inputs for agricultural production such as fertilizers, products for the protection of crops, additives, veterinary drugs and food and vitamins for animals, thus promoting the use of state-of-the-art technology to protect the natural physical environment.

1.4.3.1. Increase of the national food production (vegetables, livestock, aquiculture and fisheries) by 45 per cent, from 29.4 million tones a year to 42.7 million tones a year.

1.4.3.2. Increase the production of cereals by at least 70 per cent, from 5.13 million tones a year to 8.73 million tones a year.

1.4.3.3. Increase in the production of legumes (65 per cent); oilseeds (73 per cent); tropical crops: coffee and cocoa (46 per cent); vegetables (40 per cent).

1.4.3.4. Increase in livestock production by 38 per cent, from 5.32 million tones a year to 7.35 million tones a year.

1.4.3.5. Increase livestock production by at least 45 per cent; pork production by at least 43 per cent; poultry production by at least 45 per cent and eggs production by at least 44 per cent.

1.4.4 Strengthen the infrastructure, development and functioning of the big socialist primary agricultural production clusters and the Big Irrigation Systems, which shall be managed by socialist enterprises, giving priority to the integration of industrial productive processes.

1.4.4.1. Advance the Comprehensive Rural Development Project ‘Delta del Orinoco’ in Islas Cocuina, Manamito and Guara in the states of Delta Amacuro and Monagas.

1.4.4.2. Advance the Socialist Comprehensive Agrarian Development Project ‘Píritu-Becerra’ in the state of Guárico.

1.4.4.3. Implement the Socialist Agrarian Development Project ‘Eje Elorza-Mantecal’ in the state of Apure.

1.4.4.4. Implement the Socialist Agro-ecological Development Project ‘Llano Alto’ in the states of Barinas and Trujillo.

1.4.4.5. Implement the Plan for the Comprehensive Agricultural Development of the municipality of Guanarito, in the states of Portuguesa, Barinas and Cojedes.

1.4.4.6. Implement the Socialist Comprehensive Development Project ‘Paguey-Santo Domingo’ of the municipality of Barinas in the state of Barinas.

1.4.4.7. Implement the Socialist Comprehensive Agrarian Development Project in the Area of Influence of the ‘Biruaca-Achaguas’ axis in the states of Apure and Guárico.

1.4.5 Consolidate the networks of production and distribution of products ready for consumption and the agro-industrial processing system.

1.4.5.1. Begin the construction of the Bovine Milk Processing Plant ‘Dabajuro’, in the state of Falcón.

1.4.5.2. Begin the assembly and starting up of the slaughterhouse and cold storage unit in Mantecal in the state of Apure.

1.4.5.3. Begin the construction, assembly, starting-up and refurbishment of a slaughterhouse and cold storage unit in the municipality of Libertad in the state of Anzoátegui.

1.4.5.4. Conclude the project for the storage of cereals and oilseeds of the Ago-Industrial Complex ‘Vuelvan Caras’ in the state of Portuguesa.

1.4.5.5. Begin the construction of cellars for the storage of seeds in the states of Portuguesa, Carabobo and Lara.

1.4.5.6. Begin the construction of 14 fishing works houses in the states of Carabobo, Aragua, Apure, Falcón, Nueva Esparto, Sucre, Miranda and Portuguesa.

1.4.6 Create, consolidate and support distribution centers both at the local level and in big cities for the sale and direct distribution of products ready for consumption, thus ensuring appropriate access by the population and a fair pay to peasants work and encouraging the development of export trade.

1.4.6.1. Expand the socialist distribution networks Mescal, PDVAL, BICENTENARIO, community markets and free products distribution programs.

1.4.6.2. Strengthen and modernize the social and state regulation system to combat usury and speculation in the purchase and distribution of foodstuffs, since they are considered as an essential asset for human life.

1.4.7 Consolidate the agro-industrial apparatus under the control of socialist enterprises, thus ensuring at least 60 per cent of the storage and processing capacity for several commodities (cereals, oilseeds, sugar, beef and milk) and 30 per cent for all other foodstuffs.

1.4.7.1. Finish the construction of the Industrial Complex for the Manufacture of Agro-industrial Processing Plants and Machinery and Irrigation Equipment- also called the “Factory of Factories”- in Anaco, in the state of Anzoátegui.

1.4.7.2. Finish the construction of the Eggs Incubating Plant ‘Loma Larga’ in the state of Anzoátegui.

1.4.7.3. Build a Fertilizers Storehouse in Planta Morón in the state of Carabobo.

1.4.7.4. Consolidate the breeding and re-breeding stocks of hens and chickens in the states of Anzoátegui, Guárico and Portuguesa (ALBA Poultry Joint Venture).

1.4.7.5. Install the freezing tunnel at the Poultry Processing Plant of the municipality of Carlos Arvelo in the state of Carabobo (ALBA Poultry Joint Venture).

1.4.7.6. Build the Genetic Center ‘Josefa Camejo’ for the production of high genetic quality F-1 pigs, located at the state of Falcón (ALBA Pig Production Joint Venture).

1.4.7.7. Finish the construction of the Commercial Farm ‘José Leonardo Chirino’ for F-1 pigs, located in the State of Lara (ALBA Pig Production Joint Venture).

1.4.7.8. Build a shipyard’s storehouse (PESCALBA).

1.4.7.9. Build the Venezuelan Grand National Pauny Tractors’ Factory –phase II. (Mechanical Works Enterprise ‘Pedro Camejo’) in El Sombrero, in the state of Guárico.

1.4.7.10. Create four (4) ‘Florentino’ Socialist Genetic Technical Centers for bovine cattle, located in the states of Bolívar, Guárico, Anzoátegui and Cojedes (INIA).

1.4.7.11. Finish the construction of the Industrial Plant for the Assembly and Manufacturing of Grain Harvesting Machines –phase II- (Mechanical Works Enterprise ‘Pedro Camejo’) in Tinaco, state of Cojedes.

1.4.7.12. Establish a Center for the genetic Improvement of Shrimps in the state of Sucre.

1.4.8 Develop a support and incentives system to promote the export of agricultural products.

1.4.8.1. Create export joint ventures with allied countries such as China, Russia and Iran.

1.4.8.2. Design and implement a policy to promote export to the Caribbean countries and the northern part of Brazil.

1.4.8.3. Define, in the context of international and integration agreements, the commercial policies aimed at the protection of the national agriculture.

1.4.9 Establish mechanisms to implement a new revolutionary institutional system that ensures the participation of small and medium producers in the decision-making process in the area of agriculture, through the peasants’ councils and the networks of free and associated producers.

1.4.10 Promote diversified production models based on small-scale family farming and the urban, peri-urban and indigenous agriculture, with the aim of validating and disseminating traditional and sustainable modes of production to ensure at least 50 per cent of the production output.

1.4.10.1. Promote innovation and production of technological inputs for small-scale agriculture with the aim of increasing efficiency and productivity.

1.4.10.2. Promote the organization and creation of people’s power organs and the collective forms of production for the development of productive processes at a local level through the expansion of schools and the teaching of a cadres training course.

1.4.10.3. Promote the development and use of low-input technologies by reducing emissions that are harmful to the environment.

1.4.11 Promote diversified production models based on small-scale family farming and the urban, peri-urban and indigenous agriculture, with the aim of validating and disseminating traditional and sustainable modes of production to ensure at least 50 per cent of the production output.

1.4.11.1. Promote innovation and production of technological inputs for small-scale agriculture with the aim of increasing efficiency and productivity.

1.4.11.2. Promote the organization and creation of people’s power organs and the collective forms of production for the development of productive processes at a local level through the expansion of schools and the teaching of a cadres training course.

1.4.11.3. Promote the development and use of low-input technologies by reducing emissions that are harmful to the environment.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.5 Develop our scientific and technological capabilities according to people’s needs.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.5.1 Consolidate a scientific, technological and innovative style with a transformational, diverse, creative and profoundly dynamic style that could be a guarantee to independence and economic sovereignty. This initiative shall be oriented towards the best use of the national potential and capabilities in such a way that it recognizes different actors, dynamics and organizational forms in the generation of knowledge, thus contributing to the construction of the Socialist Productive Model, the strengthening of socialist ethics and the appropriate satisfaction of the needs of the Venezuelan people.

1.5.1.1. Develop science, technology and innovation in close coordination with the national productive structure, so as to create the conditions necessary to pursue economic sovereignty and technological independence as an indispensable condition for the appropriate satisfaction of social needs. This guideline should be developed through the design and implementation of transdisciplinary projects, the generation of scientific, technological an innovative knowledge aimed at solving concrete problems of the national productive sector, thus promoting the development of industrial scaling aimed at making the best use of potentialities with an effective technological transfer. A National Network of Technological Parks will be created for the development and application of Science, Technology and Innovation in those thematic spaces as well as in Industrial Parks in general.

1.5.1.2. Strengthen and orienting science, technology and innovation towards an efficient use of national potentialities and capabilities aiming at a sustainable development and the satisfaction of social needs. Research shall be oriented towards strategic areas defined as a priority in terms of the solution of social problems. We shall promote the creation of innovative units associated to socio-productive units in well organized communities, taking advantage of the creation of national and regional scientific and technological cooperation networks with the aim of strengthening the capabilities of the National Science, Technology and Innovation System.

1.5.1.3. Guarantee timely access and appropriate use of ICTs through the development of the necessary infrastructure and applications by adopting a critical approach and taking care of social needs and information dissemination. New contents shall be created based on the national, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural values of our peoples. The principles inherent to the Bolivarian Socialism shall be likewise promoted.

1.5.1.4. Develop education to further up science, work and production and support the scientific and technological revolution by linking science and technology to production and work, in order to build the scientific knowledge and disseminate it from the collective experience and through the different institutions and organizations of the National Education System. In this regard we shall promote the consolidation of citizens’ participation in public management in the thematic areas and territories related to science, technology and innovation.

1.5.2 Consolidate the development of the educational infrastructure in the country including universities as well as technical, medium-level and in-job training institutions which educate citizens for the liberating work and establish a direct association between the infrastructure for training and innovation and the productive sector, either through the production units or the industrial parks created as part of the strategy for the transformation of the productive sector.

1.5.2.1. Update and orient training programs according to the needs and demands of the national productive system with the aim of ensuring technical, professional and in-job training while promoting patriotic values and a critical approach as part of the organization for the liberating work.

1.5.2.2. Promote the in-job training program at factories or production units not only to improve training but also work culture, the organization of workers’ councils and the implementation of the ‘Point and Circle’ strategy as substantial elements in the change of the productive model.

1.5.3 Guarantee the conditions that would ensure access by the organizations and every person within the national territory to timely and ethical communication with the purpose of contributing to the satisfaction of people’s needs as well as the necessary training for the use, creation and dissemination of contents that could make our people to live well.

1.5.3.1. Develop information applications using a critical approach and taking into account social needs.

1.5.3.2. Generate and disseminate contents based on the national, multiethnic and multicultural values of our peoples together with the principles inherent to the Bolivarian Socialism.

1.5.3.3. Guarantee the creation and acquisition of knowledge for development and production and the good use of ICTs.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.6 Strengthen national defense to protect independence and national sovereignty, thus preserving our country’s wealth and resources for future generations.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.6.1 Improve the country’s defensive capacity through the consolidation and strengthening of the territorial redistribution of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces.

1.6.1.1. Update the plans for the territorial and Comprehensive Defense adapted to the geo-strategic and socio-political characteristics of our Homeland.

1.6.1.2. Increase the military operational activity in our country’s borders with the purpose of controlling and neutralizing transnational crime and groups that perpetrate violent actions. We shall likewise improve the defense of our territory.

1.6.1.3. Establish, restructure, re-equip and relocate our military units according to the demands of the Comprehensive Defense of our Homeland and its sovereignty.

1.6.1.4. Prepare the people for the Comprehensive Defense of the country at all levels of the State’s public sector, together with the people and the National Bolivarian Armed Forces.

1.6.1.5. Promote people’s active participation in the consolidation of the civic and military unity.

1.6.2 Strengthen and improve the Military Intelligence and Counter-intelligence System for the Comprehensive Defense of our Homeland.

1.6.2.1. Consolidate the Territorial Military Intelligence and Counter-intelligence System.

1.6.2.2. Generalize in an orderly way the search for information useful to guarantee the security and defense of the Homeland.

1.6.2.3. Update and adapt the curricula in the area of intelligence and counter-intelligence according to the Bolivarian Military Ideas.

1.6.2.4. Promote the adoption of the legal framework necessary to develop intelligence and counter-intelligence within our National Bolivarian Armed Forces.

1.6.3 Strengthen the National Bolivarian Militia.

1.6.3.1. Promote the development of the Territorial Militias with the aim of securing the necessary forces for the Comprehensive Defense of the Homeland.

1.6.3.2. Increase and strengthen the use of the Militias to support national development.

1.6.3.3. Encourage the creation of an increased number of Combatant Corps at every level of the Venezuelan State.

1.6.3.4. Encourage the incorporation of a bigger number of compatriots to the National Bolivarian Militia.

1.6.3.5. Design strategies to guarantee the participation of the people in the struggle under any circumstances, however adverse.

1.6.4 Increase and maintain the Operational Preparedness of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces for the Comprehensive Defense of the Homeland.

1.6.4.1. Update, preserve, store and maintain the equipment and weapon systems of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces.

1.6.4.2. Strengthen the logistic support and military health systems of our National Bolivarian Armed Forces.

1.6.4.3. Increase the reserves of materials, systems and equipment to support the Comprehensive Defense of the Homeland.

1.6.4.4. Increase the acquisition of arms systems and materials to equip the different units.





II. Continue building the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st century in Venezuela as an alternative to the savage capitalist system, and ensure “the highest possible levels of social security, political stability and happiness” for our people.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

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2.1 Promote the transformation of the economic system to carry out the transition to the Bolivarian socialism, moving from the capitalist oil-oriented rentier-like model to a socialist production economic model based on the development of the productive forces.

“Spanish America asked for two revolutions at the same time – the public

and the economic…”

Simón Rodríguez.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

2.1.1 Promote new forms of organization of production that would provide society with the means of production and encourage the creation of a new productive structure under a new transformation for the transition to socialism.

2.1.1.1. Incorporate new productive schemes oriented towards socialism that could spin off productive and exchange relations based on complementarity and solidarity which, at the same time, will become the productive system that will support a new transformation. These production grafts shall associate with each other as conglomerates, which will enhance their dimension.

2.1.1.2. Promote the democratization of the means of production and promote the articulation of new forms of ownership, placing them at the service of society.

2.1.1.3. Strengthen centralized planning and the budgeting system for the development and appropriate orientation of the national strategic chains.

2.1.2 Build and expand productive chains oriented towards the satisfaction of social needs in the process of construction of socialism.

2.1.2.1. Generate a system of integration of productive networks that will make it possible to articulate the value chain of raw materials, diversifying production in order to satisfy people’s social needs.

2.1.2.2. Improve the national productive structure and update it from the technological point of view to provide the material basis necessary to articulate it with the new model for the construction of socialism.

2.1.2.3. Strengthen those productive sectors where the country has comparative advantages, whereby surplus production is an alternative economic basis to the single-export product model.

2.1.2.4. Create a system of industrial parks for the thematic strengthening of productive chains and the articulation of the national industrial system which includes logistic facilities, training, technology and a system of distribution of inputs and products at fair prices.

2.1.3 Develop inclusive and participatory management models for inclusive productive units with the workers, in line with national policies, as well as a work culture opposed to the oil rentier-like approach to dismantle the existing oligopolistic and monopolistic structure.

2.1.3.1. Build a work culture opposed to a rentier-like approach by supporting training based on the praxis of work and the awareness of workers as active subjects in the process of transformation of and democratic participation in work aimed at serving the best national interests.

2.1.3.2. Promote a new management model in productive units –direct and indirect social ownership units- that is efficient, sustainable and that generates social and economic benefits to serve the best national interests.

2.1.3.3. Develop a system of incentives to encourage the creation of small and medium private enterprises and joint ventures in a context of maximum social co-responsibility of the productive apparatus, thus recognizing the work of men and women entrepreneurs.

2.1.3.4. Contribute to the socio-economic wellbeing of the areas where the productive units are located, following the ‘point and circle’ strategy and making room for people’s participation in the social and economic processes as well as in social comptrollership. Bigger scale units will promote the ramification of inputs at the community level to contribute to satisfy the needs of our communities.

2.1.4 Strengthen the system of direct and alternative distribution of inputs and products and combating speculation, which is inherent to capitalism.

2.1.4.1. Generate and strengthen the State-owned, community and mixed chains of distribution of final and intermediate consumption products as an alternative offered to the population in terms of direct savings.

2.1.4.2. Establish systems of transportation and distribution that ensures a direct flow of commodities from the production units to consumers, distribution centers or intermediate production units.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

2.2 Build a just and egalitarian society.

For the period 2013-2019 we will take up the challenge of consolidating the essence of the Bolivarian Revolution, which is social justice. The continuity of the Revolution should guarantee the irreversibility of the progress achieved in the area of human rights; the conditions that will make it impossible to go back to poverty; the conditions that have made it possible to consolidate the struggle against social inequalities; the progress achieved in the liberation of the people; the leading participation of the people in social missions. To advance towards the construction of a just and egalitarian society is to move on down the path to socialism; it means to have a future full of rewarding living conditions created by the people themselves.

In this new stage, to continue building a just and egalitarian society requires the development of a system of social prevention, protection and security that should have a new political quality, since it is intended to become the most powerful instrument to live by living, as a condition of the Venezuelan people’s liberation, independence and sovereignty in their transit towards socialism. For that, it is necessary to achieve extraordinary progress in fundamental processes that presuppose a radical social transformation, which are strategic objectives for the revolution.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

2.2.1 Continue to promote the transformation of the essential relations of the people with Nature, the State, society, the working process and ideas.

2.2.1.1. Develop socialist relationships among workers and with the working process.

2.2.1.2. Guarantee the physical, cognitive and moral development of workers as well as safe, healthy and satisfactory working conditions and social security.

2.2.1.3. Eradicate the working relations disguised as wage-earning employment.

2.2.1.4. Guarantee collective in-job training, thus ensuring people’s participation in the productive, fraternal and liberating work.

2.2.1.5. Guarantee the provision of universal basic benefits related to old age, subsistence, disability, invalidity, unemployment, severance and unemployment, resulting from the relationship established with the labor market.

2.2.1.6. Harmonize family life with labor life.

2.2.1.7. Consolidate values that safeguard identity and strengthen the sovereignty and defense of the country based on the physical, spiritual and intellectual enjoyment and the recognition of our cultural and natural patrimony.

2.2.1.8. Achieve a sustained increase in the national production and distribution of cultural products with the production of 15 000 000 copies of all types of magazines -2 500 000 every year- and a 200 per cent increase in the production of books.

2.2.1.9. Improve the cultural infrastructure at the service of the people, with the construction of 336 Book-Reading Rooms –one in every municipality- equipped with appropriate furniture and reading material.

2.2.1.10. Promote the development of cultural manifestations in the country.

2.2.1.11. 2.2.1.11. Support the community cultural organizations.

2.2.1.12. 2.2.1.12. Expand the network of intellectuals and artists and increase the number of cooperation agreements for the production of cultural good and services.

2.2.1.13. 2.2.1.13. Consolidate the leading participation of the people in all cultural and sport manifestations, focused on the creation of an awareness oriented towards the generation of transformations for the construction of socialism.

2.2.1.14. 2.2.1.14. Universalize social security for artists, creators and cultural exponents.

2.2.1.15.

2.2.1.16. Display the community and historical identity (Mission Cultura Corazón Adentro).

2.2.1.17. Promote the signing of integration intercultural agreements.

2.2.1.18. Improve the conditions that guarantee the enjoyment of everybody’s rights, respecting the social, juridical, physical, age and cultural diversity present among individuals or groups of individuals.

2.2.1.19. Improve the habitat and infrastructure for indigenous populations.

2.2.1.20. Accelerate the demarcation of their territories by issuing title deeds of land in favor of indigenous communities and providing decent houses for every indigenous family facing vulnerable conditions, with respect for their cultural options.

2.2.1.21. Encourage the provision of education, training and funds for the socio-productive units with the consolidation of 2 345 community councils and socialist indigenous communities through the financing of projects, with respect for their traditional practices and organizational forms.

2.2.1.22. Expand the presence of the Missions and Grand Socialist Missions in indigenous communities, recognizing and respecting their culture and traditions.

2.2.1.23. Consolidate gender equality based on socialist values.

2.2.1.24. Strengthen the leading political participation of women in the People’s Power organs.

2.2.1.25. Promote an economic knowledge oriented towards solidarity and production and based on socialist principles among the working-age population so that they take part in the national productive system.

2.2.1.26. Encourage the practice of socialist ethics at the recreational spaces for young people, oriented towards peace, the practice of sports and the social coexistence within the community, by providing 900 000 youths with recreational and sports programs and incorporating 5 200 000 youths to programs aimed at the wholesome use of their leisure.

2.2.1.27. Promote spaces for comprehensive education with the participation of volunteers who will take care of approximately 4.000.000 youths facing a situation of vulnerability. This project will count of the assistance offered by 400 000 youths who are trained to prevent the causes that generate such vulnerabilities.

2.2.1.28. Strengthen the youth’s leading organization and participation with the construction of 3 000 Youth People’s Power Councils.

2.2.1.29. Advance in the social transformation of persons who are in prison through the incorporation of their family members, community councils, social organizations as well as any other form of organization to the activities associated to inmates’ life in prison.

2.2.1.30. Combat impunity and delays in legal processes and in the provision of several benefits, in close coordination with the Prosecutor’s Office, the Defense and the judicial authorities.

2.2.1.31. Improve and build infrastructure facilities for the inmate community.

2.2.1.32. Establish the socialist production inmate communities.

2.2.1.33. Introduce alternatives to the completion of the period of sentence.

2.2.1.34. Create appropriate conditions to support inmates after they are released from prison. Their criminal records shall not be disclosed and they will be incorporated to social, educational and labor programs.

2.2.1.35. Strengthen the communicational and educational work in the interest of consolidating the values and principles of the Social and Democratic State and the Rule of Law and Justice, as established in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as well as the awareness about environmental protection as a condition to preserve life in the planet.

2.2.1.36. Develop a general policy to provide scientific information about the need to protect the biological diversity of our country, particularly the biodiversity of our parks as well as our water reservoirs and their significance for the entire planet.

2.2.1.37. Create the necessary conditions to promote an environmental culture oriented towards recreation and sports practicing, based on our national values and as a way to achieve peace, liberate people’s consciousness and live in harmonious coexistence.

2.2.1.38. Generalize the practice of sports.

2.2.1.39. Create the National Fund of Sports, Physical Activity and Physical Education to encourage the practice of sports.

2.2.1.40. Expand the infrastructure of the Mission Barrio Adentro Deportivo to every single parish and all sports facilities.

2.2.1.41. Offer a comprehensive support to highly-performing athletes and sport heroes; develop medicine and science in support of highly performing athletes; establish the Highly-Performing Athletes Center and the National Sports Talents School.

2.2.1.42. Contribute to the systematic, mass and diversified practice of physical activity in communities and public spaces through the incorporation of physical activity into the Bolivarian Education System.

2.2.2 Create the necessary conditions to ensure the highest possible social security and happiness for Venezuelan families, based on the values and principles of respect, equality, solidarity and co-responsibility, as part of the social justice which is the essential element in the construction of socialism.

2.2.2.1. Consolidate the struggle against the determinants of the conditions of inequality that need to be wiped out in order to eradicate extreme poverty.

2.2.2.2. Eradicate extreme poverty according to incomes (zero extreme poverty).

2.2.2.3. Continue to reduce overall poverty.

2.2.2.4. Reduce the number of persons facing a situation of vulnerability.

2.2.2.5. Ensure that Venezuela keeps on being the biggest classroom in the world through the consolidation and expansion of the entry into educational institutions, continuity of studies and graduation to guarantee people’s right to basic education in the interest of training the citizens that the Republic needs.

2.2.2.6. Expand the schooling coverage to include the entire population, particularly excluded persons, as follows:

a. Nursery schools: increase enrolment from 13 per cent to 40 per cent;

b. Preschool Education: provide universal access, 100 per cent coverage;

c. Primary Education; consolidate universal access to this level through a 100 per cent increase of the target population;

d. Medium-Level and General Education: to achieve a 100 per cent increase in the enrolment so that the entire population could attain a general medium-level or technical medium-level education as an average;

e. Increase the technical education enrolment by 40 per cent.

2.2.2.7. Develop a bilingual intercultural education.

2.2.2.8. Expand the schools and sports infrastructure and staff and continue to introduce ICT’s in the educational process.

2.2.2.9. Adapt the educational system to the productive model.

2.2.2.10. Strengthen and encourage research in the educational process.

2.2.2.11. Consolidate the transformation of universities focused on comprehensive education, intellectual production and social interaction to ensure the development of the creative potential and problem-solving capabilities in the face of the most pressing problem facing the country and the strategic objectives established in the National Project ‘Simón Bolívar’.

2.2.2.12. Consolidate the constitutional right to university education for all, with emphasis on the enrolment, continuity of studies and graduation, by means of a 90 per cent increase in the incorporation of senior-high graduates to university education.

2.2.2.13. Strengthen the policy of territorialization and relevance of management for the development of university education through an increase of the municipal enrolment by 60 per cent thanks to the Sucre and Alma Mater Missions.

2.2.2.14. Develop training and research programs and projects to give a response to the productive needs and potentialities necessary for the development of the country.

2.2.2.15. Expand the scientific, technical and humanistic capabilities to ensure security and sovereignty in the production of material inputs, as well as the artistic theoretical and methodological production required to live well by means of a 70 per cent increase in the financing of research and innovation oriented to projects that will enhance people’s happiness.

2.2.2.16. Guarantee health care for the people through the consolidation of the national public health system, based on the strengthening of the Barrio Adentro Mission, the People’s Power work and the articulation among all levels and areas of the system of protection, promotion, prevention and comprehensive assistance to individual and collective health. Thus, the expectations are: (a) To increase by 100 per cent the comprehensive medical assistance coverage in primary health care through Barrio Adentro I and II, and in specialized health care through Barrio Adentro III and IV; (b) to reduce the maternal mortality rate by 37.3 per every 100 000 live births. To reduce the under-five mortality rate to 11.7 per every 1000 live births.

2.2.2.17. Consolidate the new institutional character of the National Public Health System built upon Barrio Adentro which serves as an integrating hub of the single services network under a single governing structure, with guaranteed financing, sovereign scientific and technological development and quality human talent in favor of international solidarity.

2.2.2.18. Guarantee healthy food and appropriate nutrition throughout the entire life-cycle, according to the constitutional precepts related to health, sovereignty and food security, with a 70 per cent increase in the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding.

2.2.2.19. Promotion of social territories that will strengthen the coexistence in solidarity and citizens’ safety in the everyday life of the family and the community, as well as the sense of liberation in the event of uncontrollable risks.

2.2.2.20. Provide the population with environments that favor physical activity, recreation, culture and sports at all educational, labor and residential centers in order to achieve a 12 per cent reduction in the number of persons from 7 to 14 years of age who are overweight (weight-size) and reduce the number of persons with sedentary life styles by 50 per cent.

2.2.2.21. Encourage a leading role by the People’s Power in the inter-sectorial articulation spaces and at the institutional level to promote life and health quality by means of: (a) an increase in the number of graduates from different professions integrated to the National Public Health System –the goal is to achieve the figure of 80 000 graduates; (b) a 100 per cent increase in the participation of the People’s Power organs in the planning, implementation, supervision and evaluation of the health activities carried out in the Community Comprehensive Health Areas; (c) increase in the number of people’s health organizations and Health Committees –Community Councils- to 25 000.

2.2.2.22. Consolidate the sovereign capabilities and the scientific and technological independence required to produce and guarantee the availability of Human talents and the scientific and technical resources and inputs necessary to guarantee people’s health by means of a 40 per cent increase in the number of essential medicines produced locally; and a 60 per cent increase in the local production of inputs required by the National Public Health System.

2.2.2.23. Consolidate and improve the conditions that will guarantee food security and sovereignty.

2.2.2.24. Increase the national production of new products or products whose national production is relatively weak, to cover 30 per cent of the national demand of oils and fats and 50 per cent of the national demand of milk by-products.

2.2.2.25. Improve the production and distribution capacities through the expansion and maintenance of the transport fleet to cover 40 per cent of the daily distribution of the Mercal network.

2.2.2.26. Expand the centers for the distribution and sale of products, in addition to a 50 per cent increase in the number of arepa stores, bakeries and butcher’s shops in Venezuela.

2.2.2.27. Consolidate the nutrition houses as centers for nutrition training and assistance through the adaptation and transformation of 4 500 nutrition houses into centers for nutrition training and assistance.

2.2.2.28. Consolidate and expand the People’s Pharmacies Network in the entire country.

2.2.2.29. Build infrastructural works oriented to the construction, improvement and adaptation of industrial facilities to increase the productive capacity of processing plants, packaging plants (operational capacity and processing); storage facilities (dry and cold capacities) and production lines, among others.

2.2.2.30. Educate and train the population so that they are able to adjust their nutritional habits and consumption patterns. It is expected that the dining halls of the National Nutrition Institute and the Strategic Foods Program Foundation (FUNDAPROAL) could serve as training camps for the Mission ‘Saber y Trabajo’.

2.2.2.31. Prevent and control macronutrients deficiencies and promote food security in every household.

2.2.2.32. Increase the actions aimed at the socio-productive activation and participation of families, based on social ownership as well as the creation of community social and productive networks, family units, solidarity exchange groups and all other relevant organizational forms for work and training.

2.2.2.33. Develop the Community Economic System with the different forms of social and productive organization: collectively owned enterprises, family units, solidarity exchange groups and all other working organizational forms.

2.2.2.34. Strengthen the social basis for the community economy system. Indirect social ownership enterprises shall be governed by the People’s Power organs. Self-sustainable financing shall be likewise promoted.

2.2.2.35. Create the People’s Power organs and the Workers’ Councils in indirect social ownership enterprises.

2.2.2.36. Develop coordination among the Community Councils and Workers’ Councils of indirect social ownership enterprises.

2.2.3 Consolidate the Grand Socialist Missions as a superior revolutionary instrument that would allow us to further strengthen the process of construction of social justice, just as we did with the Grand Mission ‘Hijos de Venezuela’ and the Grand Mission ‘En Amor Mayor’.

2.2.3.1. Complete the process of downsizing of the Missions according to the objectives for which they were created, in order to face new challenges.

2.2.3.2. Create new grand missions in areas, themes or problems considered as a priority according to the strategic objectives.

2.2.3.3. Develop, from the grand missions, the territorial follow-up systems to transform the lives of families and communities that live in poverty.

2.2.3.4. Establish special financing systems to ensure the sustainability of the socialist Missions and Grand Missions.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

2.3 Consolidate and expand people’s power and socialist democracy. Achieve full sovereignty as a guarantee of the irreversibility of the Bolivarian process is the main goal pursued by the organized and conscious people in power. The creation and development of new forms of people’s participation is an example of the way in which the Bolivarian Revolution is moving forward by consolidating the hegemony and control of the political, social, economic and cultural orientation of the country. The power that had formerly been kidnapped by the oligarchy is being put back in the hands of the people that, after so many battles and victories, are now much better organized.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

2.3.1 Ensure the leading participation of the organized people in the formation and transformation of the productive economic model, social prevention and protection, from the new forms of people’s participation, such as the community councils; the organizations of women, youth, adolescents, indigenous people, afro-descendants, students, workers, peasants, motorists, professionals, small and medium producers, business people, people with different sexual preferences, transporters, artists, ecologists and citizens’ movements, among many others.

2.3.1.1. Encourage the participation of the people in the community organizations systems: Community Councils, Social Battles Rooms, Socialist Communities, Community Cities, Community Federations and Confederations to strengthen the local capabilities for action over territorial, political, economic, social, cultural, ecological aspects and the security and defense of the national sovereignty.

2.3.1.2. Promote, from 2013 until 2016: the creation of 21 004 Community Councils that will gather 8 821 296 people (full coverage of the Venezuelan people). From 2017 to 2019: 2 699 Community Councils will be created every year (taking into account the population’s annual growth rate of 1.7 per cent. That is to say, by the year 2019 the total population will amount to 30 550 479 inhabitants).

2.3.1.3. Promote the creation of 250 Social Battle Rooms every year, taking as a reference the average number of rooms created during the 4 years of implementation of this policy. In this regard, we will follow the principle of promoting these as a complementary political entity to gather Community Councils and design comprehensive community management plans aiming at the transformation of material and spiritual conditions.

2.3.1.4. The consolidation of and support by the People’s Power organs during the period 2013-2019 shall contribute to the creation of 3000 Socialist Communities, considering an approximate increase of 450 communities every year, according to the demographic characteristics of territorial development hubs. These communities shall gather 39 000 Community Councils for a total of 4 680 000 families -21 060 000 citizens. That is to say, by the year 2019, around 68 per cent of Venezuelans -30 550 479 citizens- shall live under community aggregation subsystems.

2.3.2 Guarantee the transfer of competences in public management and administration from institutional, regional and local entities to organized communities, grassroots organizations and other people’s power organs. That shall be the strategy to be followed to completely return power to the sovereign people.

2.3.2.1. Consolidate a coordination system among the different people’s power institutions with the aim of moving from local to regional and national action in the construction of a subsystem of communities, development-driving districts and territorial development hubs, based on the territorial potentialities and the cultural patrimony of the inhabitants of every area and in accordance with the National Strategic Development Plans.

2.3.2.2. Establish the notion of co-responsibility in the regional, territorial and community planning process to promote the co-responsible participation of people’s organizations in the analysis and implementation of the guidelines and strategic actions aimed at the development of plans, works and services in all communities and regions.

2.3.2.3. Consolidate the work of the 24 Community Comprehensive Technical Support Units (one for each state) through multidisciplinary teams that could ensure an efficient and effective community management with the aim of improving the provision of comprehensive technical support to People’s Power organs in community management.

2.3.2.4. Create an inspectorate made up by 4 500 professionals and technicians according to a permanent socio-political, technical and productive program developed by the School for the Strengthening of People’s Power.

2.3.2.5. Promote the organization an ensure the appropriate work of the Social Comptrollership Units of the 29 101 Community Councils that shall be created during the period 2012-2019 to promote comptrollership and social control in all spheres of community work as a guarantee to meet the strategic goals and satisfy the needs of the organized community citizens.

2.3.3 Strengthen territorial integration and national sovereignty through a well-balanced development of regions by promoting attractive economic activities as an incentive in support of human settlements in a community subsystem, looking for a population distribution in accordance with the use of the productive capabilities of the territory.

2.3.4 Guarantee full social inclusion: People’s Power shall be the guarantor of the recognition of the dignity of human beings as subjects in the full exercise of their rights, wher