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<h1 id="reader-title">Venezuela’s Maduro Announces new Social
Benefits to Benefit 8 Million Families<br>
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<div id="reader-estimated-time">January 4, 2018<br>
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<p><a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuelas-Maduro-Announces-40-Minimum-Wage-Increase-for-New-Year-20180101-0011.html">Venezuelan
President Nicolas Maduro</a> announced <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuelas-Maduro-Announces-40-Minimum-Wage-Increase-for-New-Year-20180101-0011.html">several
social benefit policies</a> Thursday that will be
delivered through a special ID card system, Carnet de la
Patria, aimed at redistributing income and wealth in the
country.</p>
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<p>In a speech made from the Cuartel de la Montaña, in the
capital city of Caracas, the president approved a
benefit called the "bonus of kings", which will
positively impact more than 8 million families.</p>
<p>Maduro also announced another project under development
which will serve more than 500,000 pregnant women in the
country, who will be granted a protection bond that will
also be distributed through the Carnet de la Patria.</p>
<p><em>"#ANUNCIO Pdte. @NicolasMaduro: With the VQR
application, more than 2 million people are insured
with the @CarnetDLaPatria"</em></p>
<p>"This is very revolutionary, because the bond system
that we have created with the Carnet de la Patria system
this year will revolutionize what will be the
redistribution of income, the distribution of national
wealth in Venezuela,” pressed the President, adding that
it as an affront to “neoliberal models” in places like
Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.</p>
<p>In addition, Maduro announced that 20,000 computer
tablets will be given to both the Somos Venezuela
movement and the Barrio Adentro Mission.</p>
<p>Finally, the President will be reigniting the “My Well
Equipped House” program, which provides appliances at
affordable prices to working-class families. Maduro said
that this program will also be carried out through the
Carnet de la Patria system "to go to the families that
really need (it)", after denouncing a network of
corruption within the social program.</p>
<p>Venezuelans will also soon be able to systematize the
information about their conditions and requirements
through an application called veQR, where they will be
able to register which material needs they have acquired
or are lacking from Venezuela’s government.</p>
<p>The “revolutionary strategy”, said Maduro, has been
designed to overcome the effects of the <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Lamenting-Venezuelas-Humanitarian-Crisis-While-Blocking-Its-Resolution-20180102-0010.html">“economic
war” against the country, which includes blockades and
sanctions.</a></p>
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