UN General Assembly
2014

enrolment rate of more than 90 per cent in almost all schools, and we offer free, quality education from basic schools through to universities. We have lowered the unemployment rate from 20 per cent five years ago to 5.5 per cent at the end of last year. We have changed the curves. We had vulnerable employment to the tune of 60 per cent; now, 60 per cent of those jobs are protected by social security, and are remunerated at a fair, regulated rate. I could spend hours here talking of the progress we have made towards the MDGs. We have been able to salvage our oil wealth. I am sure Members will know that we have the largest oil reserves on the planet in the beautiful Orinoco basin, and we have the largest oil fields there. For the first time in 90 years, we recovered full control over our own petroleum resources as the anchor for our economic and social development. Venezuela has had to suffer ongoing harassment and persecution at the hands of the imperial forces and the