Caracas - The National Constituent Assembly begins sessions today at the Federal Palace in this capital, to define new constitutional bases to strengthen the Bolivarian model of government, established by Commander Hugo Chavez in 1999.

Berlin - While German government questioned the election of the National Constituent Assembly in Venezuela and its results, representatives of the left-wing parties and the solidarity movement support today the Venezuelan process.

Brasilia - Even before the House of Deputies shelved the charges of passive corruption against Brazilian President Michel Temer, the minority leader, Jose Guimaraes, regretted that that body lives today away from the real world.

“There are up to 62 million girls who have been denied their right to education.” The director of the United Nations Organization for the Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, pointed out during the her speech at the auditorium of the Diplomatic Academy of Chile.

Caracas - President Nicolas Maduro has thanked today the Public Powers and the State institutions that offered him support, facing the arbitrary and unilateral sanctions against him imposed by the U.S. government.

Caracas - The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela begins today to set up over 24,000 polling stations for next Sunday elections to choose the National Constituent Assembly (ANC).