Chavez praises social deeds

VENEZUELA: "The world verifies and publishes" the Venezuelan Revolution's achievements in 10 years, "but some here foster the vice of looking the other way," President Hugo Chavez highlighted on Sunday.

"These 10 years of revolution has been good so that hope stopped being what it was in the past: a premeditated deception that creates false expectations," Chavez said.

The statesman recalled the high Human Development Rate registered in the country during the last few years. According to a report by the UN Development Program, it was 0.844 in 2007, on a scale where number one is the optimal level." Chavez said it was delightful to read the document of the Food and Agriculture Organization, confirming that Venezuela had surpassed 2,700 daily calories for the population, "something that means a 39-percent growth compared to 1998."

The government increased the agricultural financing from 268 million strong bolivars (124 million), allocated nine years ago, to 20 billion strong bolivars (around $9 billion) in 2009 "for a 1,300-percent increase, strengthening the socialist model in our countryside."

He urged "those who still do not believe in our project" and love going around the world denouncing this "dictatorship," to visit those international authorities and institutions, the seriousness of which is unquestionable.

Caracas, Monday (Prensa Latina)