A/HRC/34/6 123. Libya welcomed the recommendations accepted during the first cycle of the universal periodic review, highlighted the establishment of the National Human Rights Council and commended the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the progress made in free education. 124. The Vice-Minister of People’s Power for Internal Affairs, Justice and Peace, Hanthony Coello, said that training courses for police officers included such topics as human rights and regulations governing the progressive and differentiated use of force. From 2013 to 2016, a total of 4,684 officers had been dismissed for breaching such principles. 125. The right to demonstrate peacefully was guaranteed. The violent guarimba demonstrations in 2014 had failed to meet that criterion. Various factors, including criminal developments in Colombia and the conduct of opposition political leaders, had led to a surge in the number of criminal gangs. Since 2015, 145 operations had taken place and 2,640 offenders had been detained. 126. Major progress had been achieved in recent years in the fight against drugs, and the homicide rate had declined. 127. The Minister of People’s Power for Indigenous Peoples, Aloha Núñez, said that the Presidential Council of Indigenous Peoples and Communities had elected 1,569 leaders who respected ancestral customs and that the Institute of Indigenous Languages promoted ancestral languages and knowledge. The Government, recognizing the right to ancestral territory, had granted 102 collective land titles. 128. The Vice-Minister for International Communications of the Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, William Castillo, stated that freedom of expression was guaranteed and no Venezuelan journalist or member of a non-governmental organization had been detained or prosecuted for his or her professional activity. 129. Five million computers had been provided free of charge to primary and secondary schools in the past five years. A programme to promote technological literacy for all citizens had recently been launched. 130. Pascualina Curcio from the Ministry of People’s Power for Planning, explained that assaults on the Venezuelan economy by national and transnational corporations had led to shortages of essential goods. However, Bolivarian policies had succeeded in containing the impact of the assaults. The current unemployment rate of about 6 per cent was the lowest recorded over the previous three decades. Since 2011, poverty had declined by 7 per cent and extreme poverty by 27 per cent. 131. Magistrate Carmen Zuleta de Merchán of the Supreme Court of Justice stated that 2,409 judges had been appointed to courts of first instance, including new courts addressing violence against women. Of the new judgeships created since 2011, 70 per cent were held by women. Steps were being taken to regularize all provisional judgeships and 700 judges were attending courses leading to a human rights diploma. The Constitutional Court was mandated by the Constitution to guarantee social peace and the rule of law. 132. The Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Rodríguez, announced the presentation of voluntary pledges and commitments that, because of word limits, would be made explicit in the addendum to the report to be adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fourth session. She added that the Bolivarian model of social reform fully guaranteed human rights. She trusted that the Council and the multilateral human rights system would successfully address existing challenges and build a new world order that curtailed the devastating impact of the capitalist model. The Bolivarian revolution was irreversible and committed to the promotion of a culture of human rights. 11