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The Bolivarian missions are a series of over thirty social programs implemented under the administration of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez^[1]^[2] and continued by Chávez's successor, Nicolás Maduro. The programs focus on helping the most disadvantaged social sectors and guaranteeing essential rights such as health, education and food.^[3] The created missions created include Mission Robinson (literacy), Mission Barrio Adentro (free medical coverage), and Mission Mercal (affordable food).^[4]

Using increasing oil prices of the early 2000s and funds not seen in Venezuela since the 1980s,^[1] Chávez created the "Bolivarian missions" in 2003, which were initially short-term projects dedicated to alleviating the largest socioeconomic problems facing Venezuela at the time.^[2] After enjoying political success, Chávez made the missions his central priority for his administration, directly overseeing their operations and increasing funding during electoral campaigns.^[2]

The development and promotion of economic resources, originating from the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), generated a political floor for the governmental management of that time, but that "as the years went by, many social missions lost their social perspective and focused their axis of action on political activities" characterized by discretionality and information opacity.^[3]

Types

Education

Mission Robinson (launched July 2003) – uses volunteers to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic to Venezuelan adults.
Mission Ribas (launched November 2003) – provides remedial high school level classes to Venezuelan high school dropouts; named after independence hero José Félix Ribas. In 2004, about 600,000 students were enrolled in this night school programme, and paid a small stipend. They were taught grammar, geography and a second language.
Mission Sucre (launched in late 2003) – provides free and ongoing higher education courses to adult Venezuelans.

Electoral

Mission Florentino – was organized by Hugo Chávez to promote the option "No" in the Venezuelan recall referendum of 2004. The organizational centers of the Mission were named "Comando Maisanta" and were the ideological central headquarters for those who wished to keep Chávez as the President of Venezuela for the remainder of his presidential period.

Food and nutrition

Mission Mercal – seeks to provide access to high-quality produce, grains, dairy, and meat at discounted prices. Seeks to provide Venezuela's poor increased access to nutritious, safe, and organic locally- and nationally grown foodstuffs. It also seeks to increase Venezuela's food sovereignty. Its concrete results, however, are highly debatable, as in 2007 the country is heavily more dependent on imported foodstuffs than it was in 1997^{[citation needed]}, and has been facing chronic shortages in several basic supplies: milk, edible oils, sugar, cereals, eggs, and others.

Healthcare

Mission Barrio Adentro ("Mission Inside the Neighborhood") – a series of initiatives (deployed in three distinct stages) to provide comprehensive and community health care (at both the primary (Consultorios y Clínicas Populares or popular clinics) and secondary (hospital) levels, in addition to preventive medical counsel to Venezuela's medically under-served and impoverished barrios.
Mission Nevado – Named after the dog of Simón Bolívar, this program provides free medical services to pets (such as dogs) and their owners and handlers, most especially animals that have been rescued from torture and suffering from mistreatment from owners.

Housing

Mission Hábitat – has as its goal the construction of new housing units for the poor. The program also seeks to develop agreeable and integrated housing zones that make available a full range of social services – from education to healthcare – which likens its vision to that of new urbanism.
Great Mission Housing Venezuela – is the latest expansion of the housing missions since 2011.^{[citation needed]}
Great Mission New Neighborhood, Tricolor Neighborhood – conducts house rehabilitation projects since 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Identification

Mission Identidad – provides Venezuelan national identity cards to facilitate access to the social services provided by other Missions.

Indigenous rights

Mission Guaicaipuro (launched October 2003) – carried out by the Venezuelan Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, this program seeks to restore communal land titles and human rights to Venezuela's numerous indigenous communities, in addition to defending their rights against resource and financial speculation.

Land reform

Mission Zamora – an integrated land reform and land redistribution program in Venezuela. Several large landed estates and factories have been, or are in the process of being expropriated to stimulate the agricultural sector, create more economic activity and to redistribute wealth to the poor.

Rural development

Mission Vuelta al Campo ("Return to the Countryside"; announced mid– 2005) – seeks to encourage impoverished and unemployed urban Venezuelans to willingly return to the countryside.
Mission Árbol (Mission Tree, announced June 2006) – seeks to recover Venezuelan forests and to involve the rural population to stop harm to forests through from slash/burn practices by promoting more sustainable agriculture, such as growing coffee or cocoa. The projects aim to achieve this through self-organization of the local populations.^[5]

Science

Mission Ciencia ("Mission Science" launched February 2006) – includes a project to train 400,000 people in open source software,^[6] and scholarships for graduate studies and the creation of laboratories in different universities.^[7]

Socioeconomic transformation

Mission Vuelvan Caras ("Mission Turn Faces") – has as its objective the transformation of the present Venezuelan economy to one that is oriented towards social, rather than fiscal and remunerative, goals. It seeks to facilitate increased involvement of ordinary citizens in programs of endogenous and sustainable social development, emphasizing in particular the involvement of traditionally marginalized or excluded Venezuelan social and economic sectors, including those participating in Venezuela's significant "informal" economy. The mission's ultimate goal, according to Hugo Chávez, is to foster an economy that brings "a quality and dignified life for all". In January 2006, Chávez declared that, after fulfilling the first stage of the mission, the goal of the second stage will be to turn every "endogenous nuclei of development" into "military nuclei of resistance against American imperialism"^[8] as part of a continuous program to create "citizen militias".^[9]

Civilian militia

Mission Miranda – establishes a Venezuelan military reserve composed of civilians who could participate in the defense of the Venezuelan territory, in the legacy of the militias during the Spanish colonial period and the struggle for independence.

Culture

Mission Música – helps the development of music by encouraging young people to take up music-related careers as well as to revive traditional Venezuelan folk music.

International assistance

Cuba

Many of these programs involve importing expertise from abroad; Venezuela is providing Cuba with 53,000 barrels (8,000 m³) of below-market-rate oil a day in exchange for the service of thousands of physicians, teachers, sports trainers, and other skilled professionals.^[10]

In February 2010 seven Cuban doctors who defected to the US introduced an indictment against the governments of Cuba and Venezuela and the oil company PDVSA for what they considered was a conspiracy to force them to work under conditions of "modern slaves" as payment for the Cuban government' debt.^[11] In 2014, it was reported by Miami NGO, Solidarity Without Borders, that at least 700 Cuban medical personnel had left Venezuela in the past year and that up to hundreds of Cuban personnel had asked for advice on how to escape from Venezuela weekly.^[12] Solidarity Without Borders also stated that Cuban personnel cannot refuse to work, cannot express complaints and suffer with blackmail from threats against their family in Cuba.^[12]

Impact

The development and promotion of economic resources, originating from the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), generated a political floor for the governmental management of that time, but that "as the years went by, many social missions lost their social perspective and focused their axis of action on political activities" characterized by discretionality and information opacity.^[3]

The Bolivarian missions have been praised for their effect on poverty, education and health, and are described as "ways to combat extreme forms of exclusion" and "the mainstay of progress in the fight against poverty."^[4]

On the other hand, the Chávez government overspent on social spending without saving enough for economic distress, which Venezuela experienced shortly before and after Hugo Chávez's death and during the economic policy of the Nicolás Maduro government.^[13] Poverty, inflation and shortages then began to increase.^[13]

A multi-university study in 2015 questioned the effectiveness of the Bolivarian missions, showing that only 10% of Venezuelans studied benefited from the missions.^[14] Of that 10%, almost half were not affected from poverty.^[14] According to El Universal, experts stated that the missions actually worsened economic conditions in the country.^[15]

Health care

Mission Barrio Adentro, one of the flagship Bolivarian Missions of the widest social impact, drew praise from the Latin American branch of the World Health Organization^[16] and UNICEF.^[17]

Barrio Adentro, however, has been criticized for poor working conditions of Cuban workers,^[12] funding irregularities,^[18] and an estimated 80% of Barrio Adentro establishments abandoned with some structures filled with trash or becoming unintentional shelters for the homeless.^[19]^[20]

The infant mortality rate went down 5.9% between 1999 and 2013.^[21]^[22] The Gini coefficient fell from 47.8 in 1999 to 44.8 in 2006.^[23]^[24] The government earmarked 44.6% of the 2007 budget for social investment, with 1999–2007 averaging 12.8% of GDP.^[25]^{[better source needed]}

Poverty

During the Chávez's presidency, poverty fell from 49.4% in 1999 to 30.2% in 2006 and extreme poverty went down from 21.7% to 9.9% in the same period according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).^[4] However, the ECLAC showed a nearly 7% jump in poverty in 2013, from 25.4% in 2012 increasing to 32.1% in 2013.^[26]

In a multi-university study by the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB), the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and the Simon Bolivar University (USB), a comparison to the Venezuelan government's National Statistics Institute (INE) showed that overall poverty trends eventually reversed and increased between 1999 and 2015, rising from approximately 45% in 1999 to 48.4% in 2015 according to the study performed by universities.^[15] Months later, the same universities found that 73% of Venezuelan households lived in poverty, with poverty increasing over 24% in about one year.^[27]

Sustainability of missions

From the beginning of the Bolivarian missions and past Chávez's death, the sustainability of the missions was questioned.^[1]^[13]^[14] The Bolivarian government's over dependence on oil funds for large populist policies led to overspending on social programs and strict government policies created difficulties for Venezuela's import reliant businesses.^[1]^[13]^[14] Foreign Policy described Chávez's Venezuela as "one of the worst cases of the Dutch disease in the world" due to the Bolivarian government's large dependence on oil sales and its lavish spending to please voters.^[28]

Focus on the missions was increased during political campaigns in Venezuela, with Chávez often overspending to fund their popularity.^[2] Following elections, government interest in the missions would then decline and their effectiveness would be negatively affected.^[2] The lack of institutional organization–many missions had existing government services that only increased costs–and the "revolutionary" approach which often caused inefficient improvisation would eventually jeopardize the sustainability of the missions.^[2]

As a result of Chávez's policies, the durability of Bolivarian missions was put to the test shortly before and after Chávez's death, when poverty increased, inflation rose and widespread shortages in Venezuela occurred, with such effects growing especially into the presidency of Nicolas Maduro.^[13]^[14]^[28] In 2014, Venezuela entered an economic recession.^[29] Estimates of poverty by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Luis Pedro España, a sociologist at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, show an increase in poverty.^[30] ECLAC showed a 2013 poverty rate of 32% while Pedro España calculated a 2015 rate of 48% with a poverty rate of 70% possible by the end of 2015.^[30] According to Venezuelan NGO PROVEA, by the end of 2015, there would be the same number of Venezuelans living in poverty as there was in 2000, reversing the advancements against poverty by Hugo Chávez.^[30]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Heritage, Andrew (December 2002). Financial Times World Desk Reference. Dorling Kindersley. pp. 618–621. ISBN 9780789488053.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f López Maya, Margarita (2016). El ocaso del chavismo: Venezuela 2005–2015. pp. 354–358. ISBN 9788417014254.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Bases de Misiones Sociales: Una estrategia electoral" [Social Missions Bases: An Electoral Strategy]. Transparencia Venezuela (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Justo, Marcelo (27 January 2009). "Entre los números y la realidad" (in Spanish). BBC. Retrieved 31 January 2009.
^ “We Want to Change Human Interaction with Nature”. Archived 27 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 18 August 2006.
^ "Venezuela Training 400,000 in Open Source :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software". Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2006. Accessed 18 August 2006.
^ Mission Science Grants 5,000 Scholarships. Archived 9 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 18 August 2006.
^ Chávez anunció núcleos endógenos militares para la resistencia. El Universal (18 January 2006) (in Spanish)
^ Ceaser, M. (BBC, 1 July 2005). "Chavez's 'citizen militias' on the march". Retrieved 27 June 2006.
^ Bruce, Iain. Venezuela shuns IMF advice on oil money. BBC News (24 November 2004).
^ "Siete médicos cubanos demandan a Cuba y Venezuela por "esclavitud moderna" en Noticias24.com". Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Vinogradoff, Ludmila (13 November 2014). "16 November 2014". ABC (Spanish). Retrieved 16 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Siegel, Robert (25 December 2014). "For Venezuela, Drop in Global Oil Prices Could Be Catastrophic". NPR. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Scharfenberg, Ewald (1 February 2015). "Volver a ser pobre en Venezuela". El Pais. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
^ ^a ^b María Rodríguez, Carmen (4 March 2015). "Dos años de crisis elevaron la pobreza a niveles de 1998". El Universal. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
^ WHO: República Bolivariana de Venezuela: Cumpliendo las Metas del Milenio Archived 18 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine – A report on Venezuela's objectives and progress regarding the UN Millennium Development Goals.
^ UNICEF: Venezuela’s Barrio Adentro: A Model of Universal Primary Health Care Archived 4 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^ Alonso, Juan (19 April 2014). "Contraloría detectó vicios en obras de Barrio Adentro III". El Universal. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
^ "El 80% de los módulos de Barrio Adentro del país está cerrado". La Patilla. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
^ Matheus, Ricardo. Abandonados 70% de módulos de BA Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine Diario 2001 (29 July 2007).
^ Keppel, Stephen (17 January 2013). "5 Ways Hugo Chavez Has Destroyed the Venezuelan Economy". ABC News. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
^ "Millennium Development Goals Indicators". United Nations. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
^ "GINI index (World Bank estimate) 1995–1999". World Bank. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
^ "GINI index (World Bank estimate) 2005–2009". World Bank. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
^ Perdomo, Eucaris (Panorama 24 October 2006). Economía venezolana ha crecido un 12,5% en últimos 12 trimestres^{[permanent dead link]}(in Spanish) Retrieved 24 October 2006 ^{[dead link]}
^ "La pobreza en Venezuela aumentó a 32,1%, según la Cepal". La Patilla. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
^ "Study: Poverty in Venezuela at 73 percent of households". The Washington Post. 20 November 2015. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
^ ^a ^b Corrales, Javier (7 March 2013). "The House That Chavez Built". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
^ Pons, Corina; Cawthorne, Andrew (30 December 2014). "Recession-hit Venezuela vows New Year reforms, foes scoff". Reuters. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Gallagher, J. J. (25 March 2015). "Venezuela: Does an increase in poverty signal threat to government?". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

References

Niemeyer, Ralph T. (2004), Under Attack: Morning Dawn in Venezuela, iUniverse, ISBN 0-595-66208-0.

External links

(in Spanish) Gobierno en Línea: Misiones – Official government website detailing the Bolivarian Missions.
(in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística Archived 12 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine (English auto-translate) – Venezuela's National Institute of Statistics; has web several portals for accessing demographic and economic data related to the impact of Bolivarian Missions.

[FTWD-1] Heritage, Andrew (December 2002). Financial Times World Desk Reference. Dorling Kindersley. pp. 618–621. ISBN 9780789488053.

[:02-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f López Maya, Margarita (2016). El ocaso del chavismo: Venezuela 2005–2015. pp. 354–358. ISBN 9788417014254.

[:4-3] "Bases de Misiones Sociales: Una estrategia electoral" [Social Missions Bases: An Electoral Strategy]. Transparencia Venezuela (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 November 2022.

[Justo-4] Justo, Marcelo (27 January 2009). "Entre los números y la realidad" (in Spanish). BBC. Retrieved 31 January 2009.

[5] “We Want to Change Human Interaction with Nature”. Archived 27 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 18 August 2006.

[6] "Venezuela Training 400,000 in Open Source :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software". Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2006. Accessed 18 August 2006.

[7] Mission Science Grants 5,000 Scholarships. Archived 9 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 18 August 2006.

[8] Chávez anunció núcleos endógenos militares para la resistencia. El Universal (18 January 2006) (in Spanish)

[BBCCitMil-9] Ceaser, M. (BBC, 1 July 2005). "Chavez's 'citizen militias' on the march". Retrieved 27 June 2006.

[10] Bruce, Iain. Venezuela shuns IMF advice on oil money. BBC News (24 November 2004).

[11] "Siete médicos cubanos demandan a Cuba y Venezuela por "esclavitud moderna" en Noticias24.com". Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

[ABCnov2014-12] Vinogradoff, Ludmila (13 November 2014). "16 November 2014". ABC (Spanish). Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[NPRdec2014-13] Siegel, Robert (25 December 2014). "For Venezuela, Drop in Global Oil Prices Could Be Catastrophic". NPR. Retrieved 4 January 2015.

[ELPAISfeb2015-14] Scharfenberg, Ewald (1 February 2015). "Volver a ser pobre en Venezuela". El Pais. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

[EU2015marzo4-15] María Rodríguez, Carmen (4 March 2015). "Dos años de crisis elevaron la pobreza a niveles de 1998". El Universal. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.

[who-16] WHO: República Bolivariana de Venezuela: Cumpliendo las Metas del Milenio Archived 18 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine – A report on Venezuela's objectives and progress regarding the UN Millennium Development Goals.

[17] UNICEF: Venezuela’s Barrio Adentro: A Model of Universal Primary Health Care Archived 4 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine

[18] Alonso, Juan (19 April 2014). "Contraloría detectó vicios en obras de Barrio Adentro III". El Universal. Retrieved 7 May 2014.

[LPdec2014-19] "El 80% de los módulos de Barrio Adentro del país está cerrado". La Patilla. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2014.

[20] Matheus, Ricardo. Abandonados 70% de módulos de BA Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine Diario 2001 (29 July 2007).

[ABCjan2013-21] Keppel, Stephen (17 January 2013). "5 Ways Hugo Chavez Has Destroyed the Venezuelan Economy". ABC News. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

[UNMDG-22] "Millennium Development Goals Indicators". United Nations. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

[23] "GINI index (World Bank estimate) 1995–1999". World Bank. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

[24] "GINI index (World Bank estimate) 2005–2009". World Bank. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

[Merentez-25] Perdomo, Eucaris (Panorama 24 October 2006). Economía venezolana ha crecido un 12,5% en últimos 12 trimestres^{[permanent dead link]}(in Spanish) Retrieved 24 October 2006 ^{[dead link]}

[LPjan2015-26] "La pobreza en Venezuela aumentó a 32,1%, según la Cepal". La Patilla. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

[27] "Study: Poverty in Venezuela at 73 percent of households". The Washington Post. 20 November 2015. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.

[FPmarch2013-28] Corrales, Javier (7 March 2013). "The House That Chavez Built". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 6 February 2015.

[29] Pons, Corina; Cawthorne, Andrew (30 December 2014). "Recession-hit Venezuela vows New Year reforms, foes scoff". Reuters. Retrieved 3 January 2015.

[CSM25march-30] Gallagher, J. J. (25 March 2015). "Venezuela: Does an increase in poverty signal threat to government?". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

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-The '''Bolivarian missions''' are a series of over thirty [[social program]]s implemented under the administration of former [[Venezuela]]n president [[Hugo Chávez]]<ref name=FTWD>{{cite book|last1=Heritage|first1=Andrew|title=Financial Times World Desk Reference|date=December 2002|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]]|isbn=9780789488053|pages=618–621}}<!--|accessdate=2 February 2015--></ref><ref name=":02" /> and continued by Chávez's successor, [[Nicolás Maduro]]. The programs focus on [[social justice]], [[social welfare]], [[anti-poverty]], educational, and military recruiting. They draw their name from the historical South American hero, [[Simón Bolívar]].
+The '''Bolivarian missions''' are a series of over thirty [[social program]]s implemented under the administration of former [[Venezuela]]n president [[Hugo Chávez]]<ref name=FTWD>{{cite book|last1=Heritage|first1=Andrew|title=Financial Times World Desk Reference|date=December 2002|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]]|isbn=9780789488053|pages=618–621}}<!--|access-date=2 February 2015--></ref><ref name=":02" /> and continued by Chávez's successor, [[Nicolás Maduro]]. The programs focus on helping the most disadvantaged social sectors and guaranteeing essential rights such as health, education and food.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Bases de Misiones Sociales: Una estrategia electoral |trans-title=Social Missions Bases: An Electoral Strategy |url=https://transparenciave.org/project/bases-de-misiones-sociales-una-estrategia-electoral/ |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=Transparencia Venezuela |language=es}}</ref> The created missions created include [[Mission Robinson]] (literacy), [[Mission Barrio Adentro]] (free medical coverage), and [[Mission Mercal]] (affordable food).<ref name="Justo">{{cite news |last=Justo |first=Marcelo |date=27 January 2009 |title=Entre los números y la realidad |language=es |publisher=[[BBC]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/specials/2009/chavez_10/newsid_7837000/7837964.stm |access-date=31 January 2009}}</ref>
-Using increasing the oil prices of the early 2000s and funds not seen in Venezuela since the 1980s,<ref name=FTWD/> Chávez created the "Bolivarian missions" in 2003, which were initially short-term projects dedicated to alleviating the largest socioeconomic problems facing Venezuela at the time.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|title=El ocaso del chavismo: Venezuela 2005–2015|last=López Maya|first=Margarita|year=2016|isbn=9788417014254|pages=354–358}}</ref> After enjoying political success, Chávez made the missions his central priority for his administration, directly overseeing their operations and increasing funding during electoral campaigns.<ref name=":02" />
+Using increasing oil prices of the early 2000s and funds not seen in Venezuela since the 1980s,<ref name=FTWD/> Chávez created the "Bolivarian missions" in 2003, which were initially short-term projects dedicated to alleviating the largest socioeconomic problems facing Venezuela at the time.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|title=El ocaso del chavismo: Venezuela 2005–2015|last=López Maya|first=Margarita|year=2016|isbn=9788417014254|pages=354–358}}</ref> After enjoying political success, Chávez made the missions his central priority for his administration, directly overseeing their operations and increasing funding during electoral campaigns.<ref name=":02" />
+The development and promotion of economic resources, originating from the state-owned [[PDVSA|Petróleos de Venezuela]] (PDVSA), generated a political floor for the governmental management of that time, but that "as the years went by, many social missions lost their social perspective and focused their axis of action on political activities" characterized by discretionality and information opacity.<ref name=":4" />
-The most important missions created include [[Mission Robinson]] (literacy), [[Mission Barrio Adentro]] (free medical coverage), and [[Mission Mercal]] (affordable food).<ref name=Justo>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/specials/2009/chavez_10/newsid_7837000/7837964.stm|title=Entre los números y la realidad |last=Justo|first=Marcelo|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=27 January 2009|accessdate=31 January 2009|language=es}}</ref>
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 *'''[[Mission Florentino]]''' {{spaced ndash}} was organized by [[Hugo Chávez]] to promote the option "No" in the [[Venezuelan recall referendum of 2004]]. The organizational centers of the Mission were named "Comando Maisanta" and were the ideological central headquarters for those who wished to keep Chávez as the President of Venezuela for the remainder of his presidential period.
-===Environmental===
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-*'''[[Mission Revolución Energética]]''' (Mission Energy Revolution){{spaced ndash}}a campaign launched November 2006 to replace [[incandescent lightbulb]]s with more energy-efficient [[fluorescent bulb]]s.<ref>http://ceims.mppre.gob.ve/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46:mision-revolucion-energetica&catid=23:misiones-bolivarianas</ref>
 === Food and nutrition ===
 * '''[[Mission Mercal]]'''{{spaced ndash}}seeks to provide access to high-quality produce, grains, dairy, and meat at discounted prices. Seeks to provide Venezuela's poor increased access to nutritious, safe, and organic locally- and nationally grown foodstuffs. It also seeks to increase Venezuela's [[food sovereignty]]. Its concrete results, however, are highly debatable, as in 2007 the country is heavily more dependent on [[Import (international trade)|imported]] foodstuffs than it was in 1997{{Citation needed|reason=Some sources indicate otherwise|date=March 2014}}, and has been facing chronic [[shortage]]s in several basic supplies: milk, edible oils, sugar, cereals, eggs, and others.
-Mkay bye.
 === Healthcare ===
-* '''[[Mission Barrio Adentro]]''' ("Mission Inside the Neighborhood"){{spaced ndash}}a series of initiatives (deployed in three distinct stages) to provide comprehensive and community [[health care]] (at both the primary (''Consultorios y Clínicas Populares'' or popular [[clinics]]) and secondary (hospital) levels, in addition to preventative medical counsel to Venezuela's medically under-served and impoverished ''[[barrio]]s''.
+* '''[[Mission Barrio Adentro]]''' ("Mission Inside the Neighborhood"){{spaced ndash}}a series of initiatives (deployed in three distinct stages) to provide comprehensive and community [[health care]] (at both the primary (''Consultorios y Clínicas Populares'' or popular [[clinics]]) and secondary (hospital) levels, in addition to preventive medical counsel to Venezuela's medically under-served and impoverished ''[[barrio]]s''.
-* '''[[Mission Nevado]]''' – Named after the dog of the Liberator Simon Bolivar, this program provides free medical services to pets (such as [[dog]]s) and their owners and handlers, most especially animals that have been rescued from torture and suffering from mistreatment from owners.
+* '''[[Mission Nevado]]''' – Named after the dog of [[Simón Bolívar]], this program provides free medical services to pets (such as [[dog]]s) and their owners and handlers, most especially animals that have been rescued from torture and suffering from mistreatment from owners.
 === Housing ===
 * '''[[Mission Hábitat]]'''{{spaced ndash}}has as its goal the construction of new housing units for the poor. The program also seeks to develop agreeable and integrated housing zones that make available a full range of social services{{spaced ndash}}from education to healthcare{{spaced ndash}}which likens its vision to that of [[new urbanism]].
-* '''[[Great Mission Housing Venezuela]]'''{{spaced ndash}} is the latest expansion of the housing missions since 2011.<ref name=tsur-un>{{cite news|title=ONU Hábitat reconoce logros de la Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela|url=https://www.telesurtv.net/news/venezuela-onu-habita-logros-vivienda-gmvv--20181127-0038.html|work=[[Telesur]]|date=27 November 2018|access-date=24 June 2019|language=Spanish}}</ref>
+* '''[[Great Mission Housing Venezuela]]'''{{spaced ndash}} is the latest expansion of the housing missions since 2011.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}
-* '''[[Great Mission New Neighborhood, Tricolor Neighborhood]]'''{{spaced ndash}}conducts house rehabilitation projects since 2009.<ref name=tsur1>{{cite news|title=Barrio Nuevo, Barrio Tricolor cumple al pueblo bolivariano|url=https://www.telesurtv.net/news/Barrio-Nuevo-Barrio-Tricolor-cumple-al-pueblo-bolivariano-20170809-0017.html|work=[[Telesur]]|date=9 August 2017|access-date=24 June 2019|language=Spanish}}</ref>
+* '''[[Great Mission New Neighborhood, Tricolor Neighborhood]]'''{{spaced ndash}}conducts house rehabilitation projects since 2009.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}
 === Identification ===
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 === Science ===
 {{update|section|date=February 2015}}
-* '''[[Mission Ciencia]]''' ("Mission Science" launched February 2006){{spaced ndash}}includes a project to train 400,000 people in open source software,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://osdir.com/Article8864.phtml |title=Archived copy |accessdate=24 March 2006 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113043922/http://osdir.com/Article8864.phtml |archivedate=13 January 2016  }} Accessed 18 August 2006.</ref> and scholarships for graduate studies and the creation of laboratories in different universities.<ref>[http://www.mci.gob.ve/noticiaingles.asp?num=599 Mission Science Grants 5,000 Scholarships.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009064304/http://www.mci.gob.ve/noticiaingles.asp?num=599 |date=9 October 2006 }} Accessed 18 August 2006.</ref>
+* '''[[Mission Ciencia]]''' ("Mission Science" launched February 2006){{spaced ndash}}includes a project to train 400,000 people in open source software,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://osdir.com/Article8864.phtml |title=Venezuela Training 400,000 in Open Source :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software |access-date=24 March 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113043922/http://osdir.com/Article8864.phtml |archive-date=13 January 2016  }} Accessed 18 August 2006.</ref> and scholarships for graduate studies and the creation of laboratories in different universities.<ref>[http://www.mci.gob.ve/noticiaingles.asp?num=599 Mission Science Grants 5,000 Scholarships.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009064304/http://www.mci.gob.ve/noticiaingles.asp?num=599 |date=9 October 2006 }} Accessed 18 August 2006.</ref>
 === Socioeconomic transformation ===
 {{update|section|date=February 2015}}
-* '''[[Mission Vuelvan Caras]]''' ("Mission Turn Faces"){{spaced ndash}}has as its objective the transformation of the present Venezuelan economy to one that is oriented towards social, rather than fiscal and remunerative, goals. It seeks to facilitate increased involvement of ordinary citizens in programs of endogenous and sustainable social development, emphasizing in particular the involvement of traditionally marginalized or excluded Venezuelan social and economic sectors, including those participating in Venezuela's significant "informal" economy. The mission's ultimate goal, according to Hugo Chávez, is to foster an economy that brings "a quality and dignified life for all". In January 2006, Chávez declared that, after fulfilling the first stage of the mission, the goal of the second stage will be to turn every "endogenous nuclei of development" into "military nuclei of resistance against [[American imperialism]]"<ref>[http://www.eluniversal.com/2006/01/18/eco_art_18202C.shtml Chávez anunció núcleos endógenos militares para la resistencia.] ''El Universal'' (18 January 2006) {{es icon}}</ref> as part of a continuous program to create "citizen militias".<ref name=BBCCitMil>Ceaser, M. (''BBC'', 1 July 2005). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4635187.stm "Chavez's 'citizen militias' on the march".] Retrieved 27 June 2006.</ref>
+* '''[[Mission Vuelvan Caras]]''' ("Mission Turn Faces"){{spaced ndash}}has as its objective the transformation of the present Venezuelan economy to one that is oriented towards social, rather than fiscal and remunerative, goals. It seeks to facilitate increased involvement of ordinary citizens in programs of endogenous and sustainable social development, emphasizing in particular the involvement of traditionally marginalized or excluded Venezuelan social and economic sectors, including those participating in Venezuela's significant "informal" economy. The mission's ultimate goal, according to Hugo Chávez, is to foster an economy that brings "a quality and dignified life for all". In January 2006, Chávez declared that, after fulfilling the first stage of the mission, the goal of the second stage will be to turn every "endogenous nuclei of development" into "military nuclei of resistance against [[American imperialism]]"<ref>[http://www.eluniversal.com/2006/01/18/eco_art_18202C.shtml Chávez anunció núcleos endógenos militares para la resistencia.] ''El Universal'' (18 January 2006) {{in lang|es}}</ref> as part of a continuous program to create "citizen militias".<ref name=BBCCitMil>Ceaser, M. (''BBC'', 1 July 2005). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4635187.stm "Chavez's 'citizen militias' on the march".] Retrieved 27 June 2006.</ref>
 === Civilian militia ===
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 === Culture ===
-* '''[[Mission Corazón Adentro]]''' – "Heart Within" (the community) – was established in 2004.<ref>''Venezuelanalysis'', 11 July 2005.[http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/1237 Venezuela Launches New Culture Mission]</ref> Initially piloted in the Caracas area, it aims to reaffirm Venezuelan identity by promoting cultural programming in local communities.<ref>''Venezuelanalysis'', 28 April 2009, [http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4402 Venezuela Opens National Art Gallery and Launches National Reading Plan]</ref>
 * '''Mission Música''' – helps the development of music by encouraging young people to take up music-related careers as well as to revive traditional Venezuelan folk music.
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 Many of these programs involve importing expertise from abroad; Venezuela is providing [[Cuba]] with 53,000 barrels (8,000 m<sup>3</sup>) of below-market-rate oil a day in exchange for the service of thousands of [[physician]]s, [[teacher]]s, [[sports trainers]], and other skilled professionals.<ref>Bruce, Iain. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4035787.stm Venezuela shuns IMF advice on oil money.] ''BBC News'' (24 November 2004).</ref>
-In February 2010 seven Cuban doctors who [[defected]] to the US introduced an indictment against the governments of Cuba and Venezuela and the oil company [[PDVSA]] for what they considered was a conspiracy to force them to work under conditions of "modern slaves" as payment for the Cuban government' debt.<ref>http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/144581/siete-medicos-cubanos-demandan-a-cuba-y-venezuela-por-esclavitud-moderna/</ref> In 2014, it was reported by Miami NGO, [[Solidarity Without Borders]], that at least 700 Cuban medical personnel had left Venezuela in the past year and that up to hundreds of Cuban personnel had asked for advice on how to escape from Venezuela weekly.<ref name=ABCnov2014>{{cite news|last1=Vinogradoff|first1=Ludmila|title=16 November 2014|url=http://www.abc.es/internacional/20141112/abci-medicos-cubanos-desertores-en-masa-venezuela-201411111936.html|accessdate=16 November 2014|agency=ABC (Spanish)|date=13 November 2014}}</ref> Solidarity Without Borders also stated that Cuban personnel cannot refuse to work, cannot express complaints and suffer with [[blackmail]] from threats against their family in Cuba.<ref name=ABCnov2014/>
+In February 2010 seven Cuban doctors who [[defected]] to the US introduced an indictment against the governments of Cuba and Venezuela and the oil company [[PDVSA]] for what they considered was a conspiracy to force them to work under conditions of "modern slaves" as payment for the Cuban government' debt.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/144581/siete-medicos-cubanos-demandan-a-cuba-y-venezuela-por-esclavitud-moderna/ |title=Siete médicos cubanos demandan a Cuba y Venezuela por "esclavitud moderna" en Noticias24.com |access-date=3 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918162858/http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/144581/siete-medicos-cubanos-demandan-a-cuba-y-venezuela-por-esclavitud-moderna/ |archive-date=18 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2014, it was reported by Miami NGO, [[Solidarity Without Borders]], that at least 700 Cuban medical personnel had left Venezuela in the past year and that up to hundreds of Cuban personnel had asked for advice on how to escape from Venezuela weekly.<ref name=ABCnov2014>{{cite news|last1=Vinogradoff|first1=Ludmila|title=16 November 2014|url=http://www.abc.es/internacional/20141112/abci-medicos-cubanos-desertores-en-masa-venezuela-201411111936.html|access-date=16 November 2014|agency=ABC (Spanish)|date=13 November 2014}}</ref> Solidarity Without Borders also stated that Cuban personnel cannot refuse to work, cannot express complaints and suffer with [[blackmail]] from threats against their family in Cuba.<ref name=ABCnov2014/>
 == Impact ==
+The development and promotion of economic resources, originating from the state-owned [[PDVSA|Petróleos de Venezuela]] (PDVSA), generated a political floor for the governmental management of that time, but that "as the years went by, many social missions lost their social perspective and focused their axis of action on political activities" characterized by discretionality and information opacity.<ref name=":4" />
-The Bolivarian missions have been praised for their effect on poverty, education and health, and are described as "ways to combat extreme forms of exclusion" and "the mainstay of progress in the fight against poverty."<ref name="Justo" /> Spending on social programs initially increased, free health care clinics were built, food was subsidized, and small manufacturing cooperatives were created.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}
+The Bolivarian missions have been praised for their effect on poverty, education and health, and are described as "ways to combat extreme forms of exclusion" and "the mainstay of progress in the fight against poverty."<ref name="Justo" />
 On the other hand, the Chávez government overspent on social spending without saving enough for economic distress, which Venezuela experienced shortly before and after Hugo Chávez's death and during the [[economic policy of the Nicolás Maduro government]].<ref name=NPRdec2014/> Poverty, inflation and shortages then began to increase.<ref name=NPRdec2014/>
-A multi-university study in 2015 questioned the effectiveness of the Bolivarian missions, showing that only 10% of Venezuelans studied benefitted from the missions.<ref name=ELPAISfeb2015/> Of that 10%, almost half were not affected from poverty.<ref name=ELPAISfeb2015/> According to ''El Universal'', experts stated that the missions actually worsened economic conditions in the country.<ref name="EU2015marzo4">{{cite news|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/pobreza-en-venezuela/150304/dos-anos-de-crisis-elevaron-la-pobreza-a-niveles-de-1998|title=Dos años de crisis elevaron la pobreza a niveles de 1998|last1=María Rodríguez|first1=Carmen|date=4 March 2015|accessdate=3 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315023251/http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/pobreza-en-venezuela/150304/dos-anos-de-crisis-elevaron-la-pobreza-a-niveles-de-1998|archive-date=15 March 2015|agency=[[El Universal (Caracas)|El Universal]]|url-status=live}}</ref>
+A multi-university study in 2015 questioned the effectiveness of the Bolivarian missions, showing that only 10% of Venezuelans studied benefited from the missions.<ref name=ELPAISfeb2015/> Of that 10%, almost half were not affected from poverty.<ref name=ELPAISfeb2015/> According to ''[[El Universal (Caracas)|El Universal]]'', experts stated that the missions actually worsened economic conditions in the country.<ref name="EU2015marzo4">{{cite news|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/pobreza-en-venezuela/150304/dos-anos-de-crisis-elevaron-la-pobreza-a-niveles-de-1998|title=Dos años de crisis elevaron la pobreza a niveles de 1998|last1=María Rodríguez|first1=Carmen|date=4 March 2015|access-date=3 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315023251/http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/pobreza-en-venezuela/150304/dos-anos-de-crisis-elevaron-la-pobreza-a-niveles-de-1998|archive-date=15 March 2015|agency=[[El Universal (Caracas)|El Universal]]|url-status=live}}</ref>
 ===Health care===
 Mission Barrio Adentro, one of the flagship Bolivarian Missions of the widest social impact, drew praise from the Latin American branch of the [[World Health Organization]]<ref name="who">[[WHO]]: [http://www.ops-oms.org.ve/site/venezuela/docs/Cumpliendo_las_Metas_del_Milenio_2004.pdf República Bolivariana de Venezuela: Cumpliendo las Metas del Milenio] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218062158/http://www.ops-oms.org.ve/site/venezuela/docs/Cumpliendo_las_Metas_del_Milenio_2004.pdf |date=18 February 2006 }}{{spaced ndash}}A report on Venezuela's objectives and progress regarding the [[UN]] [[Millennium Development Goals]].</ref> and [[UNICEF]].<ref>[[UNICEF]]: [http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/files/IPlusQuarterlyeNewsletterJanMarch2005.pdf Venezuela’s Barrio Adentro: A Model of Universal Primary Health Care] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060304215629/http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/files/IPlusQuarterlyeNewsletterJanMarch2005.pdf |date=4 March 2006 }}</ref>
-Barrio Adentro, however, has been criticized for poor working conditions of Cuban workers,<ref name=ABCnov2014/> funding irregularities,<ref>{{cite news|last=Alonso|first=Juan|title=Contraloría detectó vicios en obras de Barrio Adentro III|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/140419/contraloria-detecto-vicios-en-obras-de-barrio-adentro-iii|accessdate=7 May 2014|newspaper=El Universal|date=19 April 2014}}</ref> and an estimated 80% of Barrio Adentro establishments abandoned with some structures filled with trash or becoming unintentional shelters for the homeless.<ref name=LPdec2014>{{cite news|title=El 80% de los módulos de Barrio Adentro del país está cerrado|url=http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2014/12/08/el-80-de-los-modulos-de-barrio-adentro-del-pais-esta-cerrado/|accessdate=8 December 2014|agency=La Patilla|date=8 December 2014}}</ref><ref>Matheus, Ricardo. [http://www.2001.com.ve/registro_noticias.asp?registro=81599&sw=1 Abandonados 70% de módulos de BA] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927004706/http://www.2001.com.ve/registro_noticias.asp?registro=81599&sw=1 |date=27 September 2007 }} ''[[Diario 2001]]'' (29 July 2007).</ref>
+Barrio Adentro, however, has been criticized for poor working conditions of Cuban workers,<ref name=ABCnov2014/> funding irregularities,<ref>{{cite news|last=Alonso|first=Juan|title=Contraloría detectó vicios en obras de Barrio Adentro III|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/140419/contraloria-detecto-vicios-en-obras-de-barrio-adentro-iii|access-date=7 May 2014|newspaper=El Universal|date=19 April 2014}}</ref> and an estimated 80% of Barrio Adentro establishments abandoned with some structures filled with trash or becoming unintentional shelters for the homeless.<ref name=LPdec2014>{{cite news|title=El 80% de los módulos de Barrio Adentro del país está cerrado|url=http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2014/12/08/el-80-de-los-modulos-de-barrio-adentro-del-pais-esta-cerrado/|access-date=8 December 2014|agency=La Patilla|date=8 December 2014}}</ref><ref>Matheus, Ricardo. [http://www.2001.com.ve/registro_noticias.asp?registro=81599&sw=1 Abandonados 70% de módulos de BA] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927004706/http://www.2001.com.ve/registro_noticias.asp?registro=81599&sw=1 |date=27 September 2007 }} ''[[Diario 2001]]'' (29 July 2007).</ref>
-The infant mortality rate went down 5.9% between 1999 and 2013.<ref name=ABCjan2013>{{cite news|last1=Keppel|first1=Stephen|title=5 Ways Hugo Chavez Has Destroyed the Venezuelan Economy|url=http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/ways-chavez-destroyed-venezuelan-economy/story?id=18239956|accessdate=3 February 2015|agency=ABC News|date=17 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=UNMDG>{{cite web|title=Millennium Development Goals Indicators|url=http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Data.aspx|website=[[United Nations]]|accessdate=3 February 2015}}</ref> The [[Gini coefficient]] fell from 47.8 in 1999 to 44.8 in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=GINI index (World Bank estimate) 1995–1999|url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?page=3|website=[[World Bank]]|accessdate=3 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=GINI index (World Bank estimate) 2005–2009|url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?page=1website=[[World Bank]]|accessdate=3 February 2015}}</ref> The government earmarked 44.6% of the 2007 budget for social investment, with 1999–2007 averaging 12.8% of GDP.<ref name=Merentez>''Perdomo, Eucaris'' (''Panorama'' 24 October 2006). [http://www.panodi.com/panodi/257803.html Economía venezolana ha crecido un 12,5% en últimos 12 trimestres]{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{es icon}} Retrieved 24 October 2006 {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>{{better source|date=February 2015}}
+The infant mortality rate went down 5.9% between 1999 and 2013.<ref name=ABCjan2013>{{cite news|last1=Keppel|first1=Stephen|title=5 Ways Hugo Chavez Has Destroyed the Venezuelan Economy|url=https://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/ways-chavez-destroyed-venezuelan-economy/story?id=18239956|access-date=3 February 2015|agency=ABC News|date=17 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=UNMDG>{{cite web|title=Millennium Development Goals Indicators|url=http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Data.aspx|website=[[United Nations]]|access-date=3 February 2015}}</ref> The [[Gini coefficient]] fell from 47.8 in 1999 to 44.8 in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=GINI index (World Bank estimate) 1995–1999|url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?page=3|website=[[World Bank]]|access-date=3 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=GINI index (World Bank estimate) 2005–2009|url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?page=1 | website=[[World Bank]]|access-date=3 February 2015}}</ref> The government earmarked 44.6% of the 2007 budget for social investment, with 1999–2007 averaging 12.8% of GDP.<ref name=Merentez>''Perdomo, Eucaris'' (''Panorama'' 24 October 2006). [http://www.panodi.com/panodi/257803.html Economía venezolana ha crecido un 12,5% en últimos 12 trimestres]{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{in lang|es}} Retrieved 24 October 2006 {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=February 2015}}
 ===Poverty===
-During the Chávez's presidency, poverty fell from 49.4% in 1999 to 30.2% in 2006 and extreme poverty went down from 21.7% to 9.9% in the same period according to the [[United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean]] (ECLAC).<ref name="Justo" /> However, the ECLAC showed a nearly 7% jump in poverty in 2013, from 25.4% in 2012 increasing to 32.1% in 2013.<ref name=LPjan2015>{{cite news|title=La pobreza en Venezuela aumentó a 32,1%, según la Cepal|url=http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2015/01/26/la-pobreza-en-venezuela-aumento-a-321-segun-la-cepal/|accessdate=3 February 2015|agency=[[La Patilla]]|date=26 January 2015}}</ref>
+During the Chávez's presidency, poverty fell from 49.4% in 1999 to 30.2% in 2006 and extreme poverty went down from 21.7% to 9.9% in the same period according to the [[United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean]] (ECLAC).<ref name="Justo" /> However, the ECLAC showed a nearly 7% jump in poverty in 2013, from 25.4% in 2012 increasing to 32.1% in 2013.<ref name=LPjan2015>{{cite news|title=La pobreza en Venezuela aumentó a 32,1%, según la Cepal|url=http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2015/01/26/la-pobreza-en-venezuela-aumento-a-321-segun-la-cepal/|access-date=3 February 2015|agency=[[La Patilla]]|date=26 January 2015}}</ref>
-In a multi-university study by the [[Andrés Bello Catholic University]] (UCAB), the [[Central University of Venezuela]] (UCV) and the [[Simon Bolivar University]] (USB), a comparison to the Venezuelan government's National Statistics Institute (INE) showed that overall poverty trends eventually reversed and increased between 1999 and 2015, rising from approximately 45% in 1999 to 48.4% in 2015 according to the study performed by universities.<ref name=EU2015marzo4/> Months later, the same universities found that 73% of Venezuelan households lived in poverty, with poverty increasing over 24% in about one year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Study: Poverty in Venezuela at 73 percent of households|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/study-poverty-in-venezuela-at-73-percent-of-households/2015/11/20/234046f6-8fe8-11e5-934c-a369c80822c2_story.html|accessdate=21 November 2015|agency=[[The Washington Post]]|date=20 November 2015}}</ref>
+In a multi-university study by the [[Andrés Bello Catholic University]] (UCAB), the [[Central University of Venezuela]] (UCV) and the [[Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela)|Simon Bolivar University]] (USB), a comparison to the Venezuelan government's National Statistics Institute (INE) showed that overall poverty trends eventually reversed and increased between 1999 and 2015, rising from approximately 45% in 1999 to 48.4% in 2015 according to the study performed by universities.<ref name=EU2015marzo4/> Months later, the same universities found that 73% of Venezuelan households lived in poverty, with poverty increasing over 24% in about one year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Study: Poverty in Venezuela at 73 percent of households|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/study-poverty-in-venezuela-at-73-percent-of-households/2015/11/20/234046f6-8fe8-11e5-934c-a369c80822c2_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122150417/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/study-poverty-in-venezuela-at-73-percent-of-households/2015/11/20/234046f6-8fe8-11e5-934c-a369c80822c2_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 November 2015|access-date=21 November 2015|agency=[[The Washington Post]]|date=20 November 2015}}</ref>
 ==Sustainability of missions==
-From the beginning of the Bolivarian missions and past [[Chávez's death]], the sustainability of the missions was questioned.<ref name=FTWD/><ref name=NPRdec2014>{{cite news|last1=Siegel|first1=Robert|title=For Venezuela, Drop in Global Oil Prices Could Be Catastrophic|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/12/25/373128433/for-venezuela-drop-in-global-oil-prices-could-be-catastrophic|accessdate=4 January 2015|agency=NPR|date=25 December 2014}}</ref><ref name=ELPAISfeb2015>{{cite news|last1=Scharfenberg|first1=Ewald|title=Volver a ser pobre en Venezuela|url=http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2015/01/30/actualidad/1422646346_475356.html|accessdate=3 February 2015|agency=El Pais|date=1 February 2015}}</ref> The Bolivarian government's over dependence on oil funds for large populist policies led to overspending on social programs and strict government policies created difficulties for Venezuela's import reliant businesses.<ref name=FTWD/><ref name=NPRdec2014/><ref name=ELPAISfeb2015/> ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' described Chávez's Venezuela as "one of the worst cases of [[Dutch Disease]] in the world" due to the Bolivarian government's large dependence on oil sales and its lavish spending to please [[voter]]s.<ref name=FPmarch2013>{{cite news|last1=Corrales|first1=Javier|title=The House That Chavez Built|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/03/07/the-house-that-chavez-built/|accessdate=6 February 2015|agency=[[Foreign Policy]]|date=7 March 2013}}</ref>
+From the beginning of the Bolivarian missions and past [[Death of Hugo Chávez|Chávez's death]], the sustainability of the missions was questioned.<ref name=FTWD/><ref name=NPRdec2014>{{cite news|last1=Siegel|first1=Robert|title=For Venezuela, Drop in Global Oil Prices Could Be Catastrophic|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/12/25/373128433/for-venezuela-drop-in-global-oil-prices-could-be-catastrophic|access-date=4 January 2015|agency=NPR|date=25 December 2014}}</ref><ref name=ELPAISfeb2015>{{cite news|last1=Scharfenberg|first1=Ewald|title=Volver a ser pobre en Venezuela|url=http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2015/01/30/actualidad/1422646346_475356.html|access-date=3 February 2015|agency=El Pais|date=1 February 2015}}</ref> The Bolivarian government's over dependence on oil funds for large populist policies led to overspending on social programs and strict government policies created difficulties for Venezuela's import reliant businesses.<ref name=FTWD/><ref name=NPRdec2014/><ref name=ELPAISfeb2015/> ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' described Chávez's Venezuela as "one of the worst cases of the [[Dutch disease]] in the world" due to the Bolivarian government's large dependence on oil sales and its lavish spending to please [[voter]]s.<ref name=FPmarch2013>{{cite news|last1=Corrales|first1=Javier|title=The House That Chavez Built|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/03/07/the-house-that-chavez-built/|access-date=6 February 2015|agency=[[Foreign Policy]]|date=7 March 2013}}</ref>
 Focus on the missions was increased during political campaigns in Venezuela, with Chávez often overspending to fund their popularity.<ref name=":02" /> Following elections, government interest in the missions would then decline and their effectiveness would be negatively affected.<ref name=":02" /> The lack of institutional organization–many missions had existing government services that only increased costs–and the "revolutionary" approach which often caused inefficient improvisation would eventually jeopardize the sustainability of the missions.<ref name=":02" />
-As a result of Chávez's policies, the durability of Bolivarian missions was put to the test shortly before and after Chávez's death, when poverty increased, inflation rose and widespread [[shortages in Venezuela]] occurred, with such effects growing especially into the presidency of [[Nicolas Maduro]].<ref name=NPRdec2014/><ref name=ELPAISfeb2015/><ref name=FPmarch2013/> In 2014, Venezuela entered an [[economic recession]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pons|first1=Corina|last2=Cawthorne|first2=Andrew|title=Recession-hit Venezuela vows New Year reforms, foes scoff|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/12/31/uk-venezuela-economy-idUKKBN0K81LP20141231|accessdate=3 January 2015|agency=Reuters|date=30 December 2014}}</ref> Estimates of poverty by the [[United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean]] (ECLAC) and Luis Pedro España, a sociologist at the [[Universidad Católica Andrés Bello]], show an increase in poverty.<ref name=CSM25march>{{cite news|last1=Gallagher|first1=J. J.|title=Venezuela: Does an increase in poverty signal threat to government?|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2015/0325/Venezuela-Does-an-increase-in-poverty-signal-threat-to-government|accessdate=29 March 2015|agency=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|date=25 March 2015}}</ref> ECLAC showed a 2013 poverty rate of 32% while Pedro España calculated a 2015 rate of 48% with a poverty rate of 70% possible by the end of 2015.<ref name=CSM25march/> According to Venezuelan NGO PROVEA, by the end of 2015, there would be the same number of Venezuelans living in poverty as there was in 2000, reversing the advancements against poverty by Hugo Chávez.<ref name=CSM25march/>
+As a result of Chávez's policies, the durability of Bolivarian missions was put to the test shortly before and after Chávez's death, when poverty increased, inflation rose and widespread [[shortages in Venezuela]] occurred, with such effects growing especially into the presidency of [[Nicolas Maduro]].<ref name=NPRdec2014/><ref name=ELPAISfeb2015/><ref name=FPmarch2013/> In 2014, Venezuela entered an [[economic recession]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pons|first1=Corina|last2=Cawthorne|first2=Andrew|title=Recession-hit Venezuela vows New Year reforms, foes scoff|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-venezuela-economy-idUKKBN0K81LP20141231|access-date=3 January 2015|work=Reuters|date=30 December 2014}}</ref> Estimates of poverty by the [[United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean]] (ECLAC) and Luis Pedro España, a sociologist at the [[Universidad Católica Andrés Bello]], show an increase in poverty.<ref name=CSM25march>{{cite news|last1=Gallagher|first1=J. J.|title=Venezuela: Does an increase in poverty signal threat to government?|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2015/0325/Venezuela-Does-an-increase-in-poverty-signal-threat-to-government|access-date=29 March 2015|agency=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|date=25 March 2015}}</ref> ECLAC showed a 2013 poverty rate of 32% while Pedro España calculated a 2015 rate of 48% with a poverty rate of 70% possible by the end of 2015.<ref name=CSM25march/> According to Venezuelan NGO PROVEA, by the end of 2015, there would be the same number of Venezuelans living in poverty as there was in 2000, reversing the advancements against poverty by Hugo Chávez.<ref name=CSM25march/>
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-* {{es icon}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20130518025319/http://www.gobiernoenlinea.ve/home/misiones.dot Gobierno en Línea: Misiones]{{spaced ndash}}Official government website detailing the Bolivarian Missions.
+* {{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20130518025319/http://www.gobiernoenlinea.ve/home/misiones.dot Gobierno en Línea: Misiones]{{spaced ndash}}Official government website detailing the Bolivarian Missions.
-* {{es icon}} [http://www.ine.gov.ve/ Instituto Nacional de Estadística] ([https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2F1.800.gay%3A443%2Fhttp%2Fwww.ine.gov.ve%2F English auto-translate]){{spaced ndash}}Venezuela's National Institute of Statistics; has web several portals for accessing demographic and economic data related to the impact of Bolivarian Missions.
+* {{in lang|es}} [http://www.ine.gov.ve/ Instituto Nacional de Estadística] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912233212/http://www.ine.gov.ve/ |date=12 September 2019 }} ([https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2F1.800.gay%3A443%2Fhttp%2Fwww.ine.gov.ve%2F English auto-translate]){{spaced ndash}}Venezuela's National Institute of Statistics; has web several portals for accessing demographic and economic data related to the impact of Bolivarian Missions.
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v t e Hugo Chávez
45th President of Venezuela (1999–2013)
Early life and career	Early life Military career Coup attempt of 1992 Presidential election of 1998 Death and state funeral
Presidency	Cabinet of Hugo Chávez 1999 Constitution General election of 2000 Presidential election of 2006 United Socialist Party of Venezuela Constitutional referendum of 2007 Constitutional referendum of 2009 Presidential election of 2012
Political events	Coup attempt of 2002 Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003 Recall referendum of 2004 2005 Venezuelan parliamentary election 2007 protests RCTV Referendum 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election
Domestic policy	Boliburguesía Bolivarianism Bolivarian Circles Bolivarian missions Bolivarian Revolution Chavismo Colectivos Economic policy Plan Bolívar 2000 Socialism of the 21st century Venezuelan communal councils
Foreign policy	Bank of the South Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Petrocaribe
Image	Aló Presidente Bolivarian propaganda Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century El ocaso del socialismo mágico El pueblo soy yo Hugo Chávez's cult of personality Mi amigo Hugo ¿Por qué no te callas? Public image of Hugo Chávez ¿¡Revolución!? teleSUR The Silence and the Scorpion Venezuelanalysis Venezuela Information Office
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v t e Presidency of Hugo Chávez
Tenure	Cabinet of Hugo Chávez Plan Bolívar 2000 Vargas tragedy Decree 1011 Tascón List Assassination of Danilo Anderson teleSUR United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Detention of Maria Lourdes Afiuni PDVAL affair Death of Franklin Brito Yare prison riot 2013 Uribana prison riot Daktari Ranch affair Rodrigo Granda affair 2006 Chávez speech at the United Nations South American Energy Summit ¿Por qué no te callas? 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis Operation Emmanuel Los Maniceros massacre 2010 Colombia–Venezuela diplomatic crisis
Elections	2000 general election 2000 trade union referendum 2004 recall referendum Tascón List 2005 parliamentary election 2006 presidential election 2007 constitutional referendum 2009 constitutional referendum 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election 2012 presidential election
Domestic policies	Boliburguesía Bolivarianism Bolivarian Circles Bolivarian missions Florentino Guaicaipuro Habitat Identidad Mercal Miranda Piar Ribas Robinson Sucre Vuelta al Campo Vuelvan Caras Zamora Bolivarian Revolution Chavismo Colectivos Economic policy National Center for Foreign Commerce Snitch Law Socialism of the 21st century Venezuelan communal councils
Foreign policy	Bank of the South Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) Petrocaribe
Opposition	Con mis hijos no te metas Coup attempt of 2002 Plaza Altamira military 2002–2003 general strike Protests 2002 2004 2007 RCTV Referendum

v t e Welfare in South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands