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[Marxism] Venezuelan President Proposes Socialist World Offensive Walter Lippmann ("He called for open debate, without prejudice about socialism, and to abandon the defensive attitude of revolutionary movements in recent years." Chavez means a battle of ideas here.) ============================================== Venezuelan President Proposes Socialist World Offensive http://www.plenglish.com/ http://makeashorterlink.com/?R1CE23C9B Caracas, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, called for world youth to initiate a socialist offensive, due to the urgency to save life on the planet. Chávez assured that there is nobody better than young people to achieve the resurgence of socialist ideas, in a speech Saturday before delegates of the XVI World Festival of Youth and the Students. The Venezuelan head of state recalled that after the fall of the Soviet Union many thought that was the end, but 14 years later socialism has revived. The ghost has returned to travel through the world and now, with new ideas, young faces being fed with the ideas of Indians, black people and the grass roots, in a deep offensive, he noted. In his opinion, the first five decades of this century are when the decision must be made between the socialist alternative or barbarism, and called on them to realise that life on the planet might end. "There is no time to lose. In this and the next five decades the future will be decided," expressed Chávez before thousands of delegates of a hundred countries that participated in the youth meeting here between 8-15 August. He called for open debate, without prejudice about socialism, and to abandon the defensive attitude of revolutionary movements in recent years. Chávez announced likewise the initiation in his country of meetings of local community governments to make their own proposals, to establish genuine popular power. ln/ml/rc/jwp ============================================================== A REMINDER TO STUDENTS OF HISTORY: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The greatest terrorist attacks ever: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/agosto/mar2/32terrorb-i.html ============================================================== GRANMA INTERNATIONAL Havana. August 12, 2005 Fidel receives Venezuelan military delegation BY RENÉ CASTAÑOGranma daily staff writer http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/agosto/vier12/34recibio.html CUBAN President Fidel Castro has received a delegation from the Venezuelan Air Force Higher Institute at the Palace of the Revolution, comprised of officers enrolled in that institutions 35th Air Command and General Staff Course, who have been visiting Cuba since Monday. Yesterday, the Venezuelan officers met with patients from their country who are being treated at the La Pradera International Health Center. A medical cooperation agreement signed between Cuba and Venezuela in 2000 by both countries presidents has enabled thousands of patients at that institution to be treated, as Doctor Pedro Francisco Llerena, the centers general director, told his visitors. Up until Wednesday of this week, he said, 9,864 patients and their 7,856 companions had been attended to at that center. Through this program, he explained, 739 operations had been performed on minors under 15, and 2,842 on adults. Of that total, 288 were cardiovascular-related operations and 153 were organ transplants; of the latter, 125 were for cornea, 12 for bone marrow, 11 for kidney and five for muscles. The officers on the aforementioned course, led by Division General Roger R. Cordero Lara, general commander of the Venezuelan Air Force, and accompanied by Brigadier General Tomás Valdés Hernández, director of the Military Technical Institute (ITM), and Colonel Josel Luis Vega Rodríguez, military, naval and air force attaché of the Venezuelan embassy in Cuba, toured areas of the Health Center. They spoke with patients and their companions about their diagnoses, treatment and the care received. The delegation subsequently visited the Air Museum, a facility that exhibits the historic traditions of Cubas Anti-aircraft Defense and the Revolutionary Air Force (DAAFAR), civil aviation and cosmonauts, according to its director, Arquímedes Martínez. After viewing three exhibition halls and 27 airplanes nearby, together with anti-aircraft artillery elements and troops, the officers from the South American nation received a broad outline of Cuban aviation history. They were told about the 1913 flights by Cuban aviation pioneers Agustín Parlá and Domingo Rosillo; the role played by Cuban pilots during the mercenary Bay of Pigs invasion; the terrorist attack on a Cubana Airlines passenger plane in 1976 by Posada Carriles and his followers, and Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, now a brigadier general, who talked of his experiences with the visitors. 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