Venezuela consolidating the
Bolivarian Revolution

CARACAS, September 20.—President Hugo Chávez affirmed that he will continue working on the review and rectification process aimed at consolidating and extending the Bolivarian Revolution, Telesur reported.

The Venezuelan government has implemented a restructuring of its social programs in order to accelerate the conversion of the bourgeois state into a social state of rights and justice, the head of state announced on Saturday in an extended meeting of the Council of Ministers in San Juan de los Morros in central Venezuela.

At the same time, in his Sunday column, "The Lines of Chávez," the president confirmed that government structures will be strengthened in order to confront new challenges that are approaching and to "genuinely shake up the bureaucratic house of the Council of Ministers."

In his view, "the institutional dynamic has to fully embody the change of spirit that the people have made their own;" that is, he argued, "the prodigious key of our Revolution."

He also announced a series of reforms in the health sector, with the aim of fortifying the social programs known as missions, and the advances of the revolutionary process in that context.

Chávez acknowledged the need to speed up the handover of resources and improve primary heath care in Venezuela’s densely populated areas. In that context he announced a fund to be directly managed by Luis Reyes Reyes, vice president of the Council of Ministers.

Meanwhile, in his "Aló Presidente" program, the Venezuelan president called on members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to consolidate the formation of the so-called socialist patrols, considered to be the grassroots structure of the country’s principal political force, PL reports.