CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro pledged on Thursday to cut off his moustache if government fails to meet a goal to provide a million new homes by year’s end. “If by December 31, I haven’t turned over home number one million, I’ll cut off my moustache in self-punishment so everyone will know I failed,” Maduro said. He was referring to an ambitious housing construction project launched by Hugo Chavez in 2011 to relocate families that lost their homes in devastating flooding in 2010. Chavez, who died in 2013, pledged to build three million homes by 2019. Maduro’s government says that so far it has handed over 800,000.