22 years after the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution by Commander Hugo Chávez, 27 hospitals have been built in Venezuela and 26,000 medical centers have been incorporated to the National Public Health System.
This was highlighted this Tuesday by the Executive Vice-President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, during the presentation of the Annual Report and Accounts of her administration before the National Assembly (NA).
She specified that since Chávez’s arrival unto power until the present time, 53 salary increases have been carried out in the country, as part of the permanent concern of the National Government to protect the income of the workers.
Likewise, in 22 years, 4.5 million decent homes have been built, as part of the Great Mission Vivienda Venezuela (GMVV), created in 2011 to meet the housing needs of Venezuelan families.
She explained that in more than two decades, extreme poverty rates have dropped to 4%.
In the educational area, school enrollment exceeded 10.4 million students in 2018-2019.
Among the figures cited, Rodriguez highlighted the infant mortality rate in children under one year of age, which in 1990 was 25.76%, but in 2020 it stood at 10.01%.
The equality index or Gini Coefficient, which in 1997 was at 0.487%, stood at 0.386 in 2020.
«It is one of the lowest inequality indexes in our continent, along with Cuba, blockaded and assaulted as Venezuela,» she said.
She noted that the unemployment rate in 1999 was 15.3% but in 2020 it reflects between 6% and 7%.
«2020 was one of the hardest years of our Republic. The five-year period of betrayal ended, but it was one of maximum cruelty and hatred against Venezuela, with the multiform aggression», she recalled.
She emphasized that despite these aggressions, the country was able to gradually reduce inflation. In addition, in 2020, the largest food distribution by tons per month was achieved, as well as the recovery of animal protein, consolidating the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP).