Misiones Sociales en Venezuela: Concepto y Contextualización

Abstract

Since 1999, the beginning of a new government brought changes in the political-institutional sphere, which included the start of a constitutional process ended with the adoption of a new constitution. Social policy is conceived as a strategy to deal with the problem of equity and the need for recognition and enforcement of the rights of citizens, a mostly inclusive strategy by installing on July 1, 2003 of the social missions. This paper presents the concept and context of social missions in Venezuela, since its origin, installation and promotion. Therefore, two stages are identifi ed in which the missions are considered as instruments of social policy of the Venezuelan government, stressing that this concept is distorted to be developed and installed social missions in a general framework for the economy and not on the shaft satisfaction of the basic and urgent needs of the Venezuelan population.