CARACAS, Monday September 24, 2007 | Update
Seven mobile units of the People's Parliament will travel
to all the 24 Venezuelan states to foster discussions in the
remotest communities in the nation.
They will start their tour in small villages and barrios
of central Vargas and Miranda states and the Capital District,
reported National Assembly (AN) Deputy Darío Vivas.
These visits are the final stage of an itinerant public consultation
on the potential changes to the Constitution sought by President
Hugo Chávez.
"We expect to attain the goal set, that is, to visit 5.4
million homes."
Vivas noted that the trucks will particularly get to those
places, where there are no telecommunications services.
"The units will have facilities, such as fixed telephones,
monitors, overheads, sound equipments, videoconference and
wireless systems, as well as canopies, tables, plastic chairs
and trolleys," said the lawmaker, quoted official news agency
ABN.
10:07 AM. DIPLOMACY. Admired by the Colombian guerrilla after his coup attempt in 1992, the then lieutenant colonel Hugo Chávez Frías received financial support by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) for his projects after his capture that year. This mostly explains the relationship and "debt" between the parties, as revealed by a paper of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) of the United Kingdom.