Month: <span>August 2013</span>

Margarita Island is one of the destinations most appreciated and valuable of Venezuela, without diminishing any other of the multiple options offered by the Venezuelan Caribbean and the rest of the country, is no doubt that throughout their development has contributed more to the tourist industry of Venezuela. If one is in search of good beaches Margarita is, without doubt, a great option because all along its coast can find beaches of very different kinds depending on which side of the island that you are visiting. On the coast it is impossible to not highlight Playa El Agua and Playa Parguito; endless kilometres of sand, restaurants, bars and hotels first, a truly beautiful and popular beach in which we will always find the place to our liking and suits our pocket lunch, only thing that I want everyone to keep in mind is cared for with the currents, and don’t be fooled by the apparent lack of depth; on the other hand Parguito is meeting place for lovers of surfing because during most of the year the waves that reach the coast are of a size and features more than enough for this sport. On this side of the island, also, can see a few kilometers from the coast the islets of Los Frailes, an excellent place to dive, but attention, is better to go with someone who knows the area, currents are intense and does entail some risk. It would be unfair to mention Playa Guacuco, which together with the tyrant and Cardon are very similar beaches although less concurred that water or Parguito and generally complement the offer of beaches on this side of the island which, though there are many more, we can say are the most significant. The North coast beaches are generally deeper and oceanic, and therefore more cold. Open to the Caribbean, and along a coast in general more abrupt offer a view and a very different experience from which they mentioned previously. .

Twenty-seven thousand children die every day in the world, according to the report on the State of the world children 2008 published by Unicef. But it is also, the first time in history that the figure of infant deaths does not exceed ten million in the whole year. This is the breakthrough that has presented the United Nations agency for the protection of children. In 1960, the number of infant deaths exceeded 20 billion a year. In 2006, the figure not reached 10 million.

However, 40% of these deaths are preventable, according to Unicef, since it’s diseases for which treatments exist: pneumonia, diarrhea, measles and malaria. Therefore, he appealed to the will of politicians and civil society to join in order to meet the Millennium development goal of reducing by two thirds the child mortality by 2015. Many are the countries that are on track to achieve this objective, but there are regions, such as South Asia, Middle East and much of Africa, which are still far from achieving this. Access to the health, food and education are the ways to put an end to child mortality. There are examples that so it manifest. The program PROGRESSES from Mexico has managed to commit to the poorest families in the country, through financial rewards, to regularly take their children to clinics that support essential health and nutrition services and keep them enrolled. In Mozambique, group care, it educates community educators who offer health education among equals on cheap practices such as the use of mosquito nets impregnated with insecticides, use rehydration therapies or encourage breast-feeding.

Thanks to this project, infant mortality has dropped by 66%. Since 2001, South Africa and Lesotho carried out a program of mother mother who is allowing to control HIV/AIDS among mothers and children. Pregnant women rely on other mothers who adopt a role mentor in the transmission of HIV, fighting the stigma and helping mothers with the disease. India, Benin, Bangladesh, Sudan, Ethiopia are also making efforts with programs of low cost that help improve the quality of life of children and mothers, and will help to reduce deaths during childhood. Integration at Community level of essential services for mothers, the newborn infants and young children, and a series of visible improvements in health systems, could save the life to many of the 27,000 children die every day, explains Ann M. Veneman, Unicef Executive Director. 38% Of the world’s population are less than 18 years. And the world’s more than 2,100 children remain the weakest and least protected against poverty and discrimination. Yet, today, one of every four children lives on less than one euro a day, three million children suffer from AIDS, 20 million are refugees, 100 million are exploited, 150 million are suffering from malnutrition and 120 million children do not attend school. We have the keys and the experience to break definitively the negative trend and show that another world is possible, more just and solidary, also for children. More than fifteen years of the I World Summit to deal with the problems of children of which was the Convention on the rights of the child. Then, leaders of all countries made a commitment to making this a better planet for children. Today is the time to make it reality.

As you can see they are countries in the region of the Caribbean and even of Central America, with weak economies, large energy needs, where this partnership definitely favors them in their development. Important thing is to determine what are the fundamentals of the agreement, its scope, benefits. Taken into account, that the objective is significant for the countries involved, because this contributes to the transformation of the Latin American and Caribbean societies please, making them more fair, educated, participative, and supportive, so it is intended as a proposed comprehensive that it promotes the Elimination of social inequalities, promotes quality of life and effective participation of peoples in shaping its own destiny. Should be noted, that as stated Pdvsa.com. and is public knowledge, gave way to a Treaty on energy security Petrocaribe, to ensure security and energy stability in the Caribbean, ten countries attending the Summit III in August 2007, signed the Petrocaribe energy security treaty, proposed by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. The signatory Nations were: Grenada, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Haiti, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Jamaica, Suriname and Venezuela. This mechanism is intended to expand refining capacity and build or improve energy infrastructure in the region, for the dispatch, reception, transport, storage and distribution of hydrocarbons. Also, it seeks to develop policies and actions that each country allocate 10% of its capacity of sowing to the strictly necessary ethanol production, build liquefaction and regasification plants and enter the gas in its energy matrix.The Treaty also encourages the rational use of energy, in the search for maximum savings and efficiency, for which drives the development of petrochemical pole, the substitution of artifacts of high consumption of energy by more efficient equipment and the use of alternative energies such as wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, among others.Member countries committed themselves to create and strengthen binational ventures and to negotiate directly between States to eliminate intermediaries.