Anti-Hunger Campaign Begins in Mexico
The National Anti-Hunger Campaign, which includes the 400 poorest Mexican municipalities in this first year, is beginning here today.
This is a comprehensive program that will target 7,400,000 people, with federal, state, and municipal entities taking part through agricultural, health, and educational projects, among others.
The campaign was announced last January 21 by President Enrique Peña Nieto, who said at that time that one of every four Mexicans suffers a shortage of food.
According to reports, a total of 11,000 people died in Mexico in 2011 due to malnutrition related problems.
The current Mexican government which took power last December, has set among its priorities the fight against hunger, extreme poverty, and social inequality.
Venezuelan’s Elections Poll Favours Socialist Maduro
In a survey for the period from 18 to 23 March, the director of GIS XXI, Jesse Chacon, said Maduro accounts for 55.3 percent of voter preference.
Meanwhile, the candidate of the right, Henrique Capriles, has 44.7 percent.
Between February and March study Maduro grows about seven percent in the direct intention in field while Capriles falls four percent, he added.
Also, 77 percent of respondents considered as good and very good the management of President Hugo Chavez government in the last 14 years.
Russia Criticizes U.S. Financial Aid to NGOs
The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Alexander Lukashevich, referred to Saturday’s statements by the representative of the U.S. State Department, Victoria Nouland, on the financial support to NGOs through third countries.The Russian Foreign Ministry today considered open interference in the internal affairs of the country, the declared U.S. intentions to continue funding to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), from the outside.
Lukashevich said that in practice it is encouraging non-governmental and social structures to break the legislation relating to the activities of NGOs in the Federation territory.
The diplomat said there is no other way to name as cynical and provocative Nouland insinuations when she compared the routine inspections of certain NGOs with a witch hunt.
The causes of that inadequate reaction are understandable, caused by cutting funding channels to Washington’s friendly structures, after the closure in Russia of the representation of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), recalled the spokesman.
Another reason, cited by the official spokesman, has to do with the laws adopted by the Russian Parliament in 2012, and endorsed by President Vladimir Putin regarding the banning of financing from abroad of those NGOs aimed at influencing Internal policy.
In this respect Lukashevich affirmed that all attempts to influence from the outside into the internal processes in the country and the development of civil society are doomed to fail.
He said that since the 1990s the U.S. State Department spent about 2.7 billion dollars to promote opposition activity in the Federation, under the pretext of supporting the institutions of civil society and supposedly democracy.
A statement from the Foreign Ministry, released in September, noted that the United States used its mission in Moscow to influence domestic politics and the Russian presidential elections.
Via PL