The Executive Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, began the meeting of the National Council of Productive Economy this Thursday, with the agroindustrial sector held in the Ezequiel Zamora room of the Palacio Blanco in Caracas, which was joined by the first national leader, Nicolás Maduro Moors.
“We have been reviewing all the mechanisms to guarantee timely and full supply for the entire country,” commented the vice president.
He highlighted that the meeting is also focused on national production, on the distribution of food to guarantee food on the plate of Venezuelans.
For his part, the President of the Republic asked businessmen not to turn the economy into a political battlefield or polarized blocs again.
“I think it is the mistake that was made from 2001 to 2021 (…) The economy at the center of a diatribe and if I was against the government and produced a product I hid it: Who lost? The one who did it” , he reflected.
Maduro assured that no one will be able to prevent Venezuela from following a path of peace, of growth of its own economic model, of comprehensive recovery to heal all the wounds that need to be healed.
In this regard, the president of the National Association of Supermarkets and Supermarkets (ANSA), Ítalo Atencio, assured that sales for merchants in recent days have been very good; which guarantees the economic growth of the nation.
Made in Venezuela
The head of state highlighted that now the development of the economy is thanks to a national consensus with different points of view. “We were building a consensus on the country’s economic strategy, so the development of the economy that is being built in Venezuela is a country consensus, it is not the imposition of Maduro or anyone else, there are always points of agreement, pending and in disagreement “, specific.
“The Venezuelan strategy in the economy is Made in Venezuela (…) It is not a formula of the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund, nor of any school of thought of the ‘Chicago Boys’; We have built the economic strategy among ourselves, it is our Venezuelan economic thinking in the 21st century,” he highlighted.
Entrepreneurs
Maduro highlighted that there are one million 327 thousand entrepreneurs in the country, and that during the month of July the national government delivered 100 thousand new loans to this economic sector. He reiterated his commitment to provide one million new supports to entrepreneurs with public funds in one year and asked private banks for at least 500 more.
“Everything that is invested in entrepreneurship goes to industry, to agribusiness, substituting imports so that they do not have to buy imported goods,” he added. “We must maintain the virtuous circle of the economy that we have created”
Hyperinflation
President Maduro emphasized that his government defeated hyperinflation that just four years ago amounted to more than 300 percent. “Which country in the world can put up with that? We put up with it because we stuck to it and didn’t get scared, we faced the situation and we were talking.”
He also highlighted the robustness of the Venezuelan exchange system “which has proven to be a market and national system”; while the country’s growth in the first semester amounted to 8%, which is why he urged redoubled efforts to make it an accelerator in the last six months of the year.
Rioters for Tocorón and Tocuyito
The head of state reported that he is preparing two prisons that will be ready in 15 days to hold all the criminals involved in the acts of violence, after the call of líderIt is opponents of the extreme right to ignore the electoral result of last July 28.
“All the guarimberos go to Tocorón and Tocuyito, maximum security prisons,” he emphasized.
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2024-08-03 02:31:58