José Felix Ribas

Ribas was born the youngest of eleven children borne of distinguished and elite family resident in Caracas. At a young age he wedded Josefa Palacios, the aunt of yet another renowned and celebrated Venezuelan and South American statesman and revolutionary — Simón Bolívar. Ribas commenced his political activities on 19 April 1810, when he began urging his neighbors and friends to involve themselves in the movement to liberate Venezuela from ...

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The Bolivarian Revolution is an ongoing mass social movement and political process active in Venezuela; its most prominent leader is Hugo Chávez, who is the leader of the Movement for the Fifth Republic and the current President of Venezuela. The Bolivarian Revolution seeks the implementation of Bolivarianism in Venezuela. Proponents of Bolivarianism trace its roots to an avowedly democratic socialist interpretation of the ideals of Simón Bolívar, an early 19th century Venezuelan and Latin American revolutionary leader, prominent i ...

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Bolivarian Missions - Education. Mission Robinson (launched in July 2003) - uses volunteers to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic to the more than 1.5 million Venezuelan adults who were at that time illiterate. Mission Ribas (launched November 2003) - provides remedial high school level classes to the five million Venezeulan high school dropouts; named after independence hero José Felix Ribas. Mission Sucre (launched in late 2003) - provides free and ongoing basic education courses to the two million adult Venezuelans who ...

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In particular, the literacy programs that comprise Mission Sucre are centered on fostering universal literacy among Venezuela's adult populace; an adjunct to this is the facilitation of their comprehension of the Venezuelan Constitution of 1999 and the inherent rights that they, as Venezuelan citizens, are guaranteed under this document.[1] Mission Barrio Adentro, one of the flagship Bolivarian Missions of widest social impact, has, for examp ...

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Bolivarian Revolution - Domestic. The profound changes brought about by the Bolivarian Revolution have radically altered the economic and cultural landscape of Venezuela. Most notably, although recent economic activity under Chávez has been robust[1], per-capita GDP in 2004 has dropped over 25% from 1998 levels. There have also, as of September 2005, been significant drops since 1999 in both unemployme ...

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Subsequent to the 2002 coup attempt, the attempted lockout by Venezuela's oil industry, and an unsuccessful and internationally verified 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum on Chávez's presidency, political and social policies and developments popularly associated with the Bolivarian Revolution began to accelerate in development and number, and involved increased participation by the Venezuelan poor. Following the example of the Cuban Revolution, Chávez began to organize Bolivarian Circles in communities all over Venezuela with the purpose o ...

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Chávez is the most prominent exponent of Bolivarianism, which in turn functions as the root ideology of the Bolivarian Revolution. Chávez has in his speeches listed a number of ideological streams that he sees as having contributed significantly to Bolivarianism. Most notable of these are the ideas of Noam Chomsky and his libertarian socialist and anarcho-syndicalist sympathies. Bolivarianism's vehement opposition to corporate state globalism and endorsemen ...

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