Caracas - The restructuring of the Cabinet and the start of gasoline trade in foreign currency on the border with Colombia marked the news in Venezuela during the week.

Just four days after starting 2017, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro appointed Tareck El Aissami as Executive Vice-president, replacing Aristóbulo Istúriz.

This change, the creation of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, besides the changes in the leadership of 11 Ministries, seek to increase the economic and social impact of the Bolivarian Revolution, as stated by the head of state when presenting the Plan of the Homeland Campaign Carabobo 2017- 2018.

We gather ministers with the courage, experience and commitment to lead the country efficiently along the path of development demanded by the people, he declared in this capital.

These are strategic changes, he said, to make the socialist project continue to grow, to be more solid and indestructible.

The Homeland Campaign Carabobo 2017-2018 includes the strategies to implement the Bolivarian Economic Agenda, said the leader, who considered 2017-2018 a period of 'economic, social, political, spiritual and cultural expansion of the country'.