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Bulletins and News Discussion from July 24th to July 30th, 2023 - Venezuela's 4,600,000th House

The Great Housing Mission of Venezuela, launched in 2011 by Hugo Chavez, is the most ambitious housing project in the country's history. This week, the 4,600,000th house was built, with a goal for 5 million homes by 2024 and beyond. The program has built 1,255 residential complexes on a total of 9,837 hectares, an area equivalent to six times the Swiss city of Geneva.

The program additionally provides social infrastructure like schools, subsidized food markets, and recreational and green spaces. Over 70% of constructions are self-managed by communities, with financial and logistics support from the government. Communities also provide each other with materials - from each according to their supplies, to each according to their needs. Russian, Chinese, and Belarusian companies have helped supply the program over the years.

In Antímano Parish in southwestern Caracas, a group of predominantly women came together in 2015 and trained in construction, cleared land, and then built apartments while under the pressure of food and materials shortages and electricity blackouts due to the United States' sanctions campaign.

Claudia Tisoy, a mother and self-trained plumber, said “This goes beyond building homes for our families, we are also building the future of our country, with women leading the way. This is what the socialist horizon is all about.”VA

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  • Update for July 28th

    Takeaways

    • Europe, once again, isn't doing so hot economically. They're hissing at chuds burning the Quran to please stop doing that as Arab countries get increasingly angry about it. Macron went to Vanuatu, an Anglo-French colony until 1980, to warn them against China's "new imperialism" - I guess France is the expert. Blinken also went to Tonga for similar reasons.
    • Azerbaijan's blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh is beginning to cause some real problems, as progress over a peace deal is being made slowly, if at all, though now Lavrov is on the case to try and get them to agree. Saudi Arabia is sad about having to do all the work in OPEC+ while Russia gets to vibe. The West wants to engage with Afghanistan again after realizing they need them geopolitically.
    • More interesting law changes in China. They've also helped Thailand build a fusion reactor, so that's cool. India is building its own air defense system (with the help of Australia?) and, well, it can hardly be worse than the Patriot. South Korea continues to not do so hot economically.
    • Tunisia might economically collapse soon. Europe only really cares about migrant flows going through there though. Niger's government has fallen to a military coup. And desalination in the north Africa region is discussed.
    • Nicaragua is having a great time vibing with China and also probably getting sanctioned more soon because of that. I mean, human rights abuses. Not the China thing. Obviously. Bolivia is signing deals with Iran because they want their drones apparently. There might be minerals under the Falklands Islands.
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