The government of Nicolas Maduro would be negotiating with the Iranians the modernization of the Caracas Metro to rescue him from the mess he’s in. “It is practically a fact. Of course, there is nothing official, but everything indicates that it is a fact,” Luis Román, secretary of the Familia Metro organization, assured Thursday. The National.
Former company employees have warned for years the conditions of misery in stations of the system before lack of investment and maintenance, in addition to the frequent failures that occur in the few trains that are in operation and that might cause, according to Román, a tragedy.
The Venezuelan authorities They have hidden behind sanctions Americans, which supposedly do not allow them to buy spare parts for the repair of the units, the escalators or the turnstiles. For the most part, they are not working despite the fact that the Maduro government frequently boasts that the state company’s workers have created and manufactured the parts.
“They don’t want contact with workers”
Román told this newsroom that the Iranians have an office in the Multicentro Empresarial del Este, in the Chacao municipality of Miranda state, on the same floor as the office of the Presidency of the Caracas Metro. He also pointed out that there have been visits to different job sites within the system: patios, workshops, administrative headquarters, control towers, Operations Control Center and others.
“They do not visit places where there are many workers. They don’t want contact with them,” said the former worker of the Caracas Metro.
“The Iranians are not experts”
The initial idea of delivering the Caracas Metro would be to recover it. Although the workers, Román assured, have doubts regarding it because the Iranians are not experts.
“If you talk to me regarding French, Germans or even the same Mexicans, Brazilians, Chileans or Argentines, I accept it. But there what is presumed is a business between them. They come out of a weight, with active and retired staff and ready, they hand over the company to him at the price of a skinny hen and they remain as heroes who saved and modernized the Metro”, he stated.
The reality of the Caracas Metro: the conditions of insecurity and misery to which users are subjected.
The Bellas Artes station collapses due to leaks and garbage. There is little lighting and there are hardly any security cameras.
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just two weeks ago Major General (Ex) Juan Carlos Du Boulay was appointed as president of the Caracas Metro, replacing Brigadier General (eg) Graciliano Ruiz Gamboa. The appointment occurred following a knife fight at the Miranda station between two informal workers who were fighting for control of the area to sell their merchandise.
A deployment of security agencies also began. On a tour made by The National It was found that security officials are not present in all stations and that in some there are only three uniformed officers despite the large number of people who move through the system on a daily basis.