at least this venezuelan gets it.old interview gaining popularity
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Apr 11, 2009 03:48AM
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interview Jorge Botti, president of the Commission of Economy of Fedecámaras
“The anesthesia of the money shut up many mouths years in the last and unfortunately or luckyly, that finished”, indicates Botti (Alexander van Schermbeek)
Perhaps when president Chávez urges on to Fedecámaras and its leaders, he does not know or he forgets that organism “is the last expression of a woven complex enterprise of the country”, maintains Jorge Botti.
One is a “formed social network for more than half century and present everywhere of the country”, he says. Expressions like “oligarcas of junk”, “stateless bourgeoisie” - to mention some they pierce in the displeasure of the smallest industralist until greatest.
The president of the Commission of Economy of that federal organism remembers, that before used to say that there was a town in all Venezuela that did not have a house of Democratic Action, a parochial house and no a Chamber of Commerce. “Today the situation is the same, only that the AD house changed by the one of the MVR”.
- It would seem that the Government wants to do without the private sector when he threatens putting hand to the first company of the country. This happens paradoxicalally when the prices of petroleum fall.
- The obsession of the President to seize of production means, mainly of the sector foods, does not have anything to do with oil unemployment and the political crisis of that then. In declarations offered to Jose Vicente Rangel, as soon as he left the jail (of Yare), he mentioned that he did not conceive that the foods were in the hands of a company said, it with full name, the Polestar. We are in the presence of a preconceived ideological model in the mind of the head of the State.
We continue thinking about the scenes based on which it seems logical to us and the logic of the revolution is completely different from the one from modernity.
At moments at which the President sees ahead that he has a crisis, the logic would say: good, now Chávez is going to relax the neck to him to the private sector it needs because it thus is temporarily, until better times come and soon to follow with their project. But he is quite the opposite, the President sees in the crisis the possibility of passing suiche in one go and of finishing seizing, if not of all the deprived sector, at least of the more important productive sectors of the country, leaving him breadcrumbs to the initiative deprived in Venezuela. That is the reason of the attack that we are seeing from of the 15 of February.
-It is a reason of State of ending that economic activity? Perhaps we are being present at its aim or are mere speculations?
- A reason of State Is an intention not because a reason of State would completely imply the disappearance of the deprived company, which is tried is its almost derisory minimisation. A species of dwarfed enterprise sector, dedicated to only do commerce and some that another specific area; those of more efficient yield and productivity of the country, they would be in the hands of a Government whom it looks for to sink to the population in a species of been thankful for slavery, because it has the indispensable minimum equipped by the State. It is a totally anachronistic social vision.
-It could be interpreted that the Government looks for cohesion with his allies and submission with which they are not it?
- In the National Plan Simon Bolivar is very clear which is the intention of the economic model. Inclusively graphs appear there where the private sector would be reduced around one third part than it is today. And that Marxist vision of the economic process is well clear that it has to do with the capital gain. The production must be cradle in exclusive function to the minimum needs of the human being, any sumptuary necessity is of more. The property is the root of all our evils and indeed clipping the property in the most profitable areas of the economy and passing them at the hands of the State or of the social property, that in last instance is the same, in theory the project of the new socialist echo nomía would be completed.
-What think to do?
- Each company that still is still on must understand that its main work is to prevail. And that implies to draw for all type of obstacles to maintain the company in march and that is making it the industralists. The enterprise leadership, we say the shouting, has acted a paper of denunciation more than of another thing and I believe that would have to be about to change.
The enterprise sector must undress the country in front, must be unballasted of particular interests and give a face that is come off the traditional things that have done. The economic model that we have inherited of the Seventies, for example, has made more mercantilistas to the groups and great economic powers.
- There are some who they prefer to stay shut up before a call or a reclamation or an unfavorable decision on the part of the Government.
- One of the great tragedies is that this already it is a society become paralyzed by the fear, is sunk and in the enterprise sector that is reigning mainly during last the five years. This species of collective silence, with the exceptions of the case, like Fedecámaras, Consecomercio, Conindustria, Fedenaga, Fedeagro.
We are in the waiting room of a change of signs, the anesthesia of the money shut up many mouths years in the last and unfortunately or luckyly, that finished. And I believe that the bonanza is going to be replaced by the repression in the times that comes.
The ticket is going to be replaced by the stick and we are already seeing how they begin to as much arise the social demands of all order in public companies as deprived, because we are on the verge of knowing another collective disappointment massive and is going to happen independently - of which the crisis is more or less deep a disconnection between bonanza and socialism of the 21st century
-An economic or social commotion?
- The Venezuelan is going to begin to feel that the promise that was done and it to him was beginning to draw finally in its future is uncertain. That is going to have social and political consequences and is going to happen in 2009.
The shock will not be like the one of 1989, still - to weighing of the opacity of the numbers the Government it has sufficient strengths to palliate a little while like this; the decisions that have been taken are timid, which makes think that others will come.
It does not come an economic failure but a disappointment. Venezuela follows before the same challenges of always: how to be less employees of petroleum and how to do of this one society that leaves the poverty with its true productive work.
- While as much the state apparatus desire land and continues the attacks and the disqualifications.
- As much the denominations as the activities are very unjust. There are some who think that they go directed to the great cacaos or enterprise groups. And the reality is that neither there are great cacaos in Venezuela nor Fedecámaras has had influence to design public policies.
It is not necessary to forget that the deprived company, with all that mercantilista inheritance, by the inherent design of the Venezuelan State, gives stable use to 8 of each 10 Venezuelans.
5 million 200 thousand inhabitants of this country who do not share the activities of the Government, are not rich, but all are pending than it says the business.
Mariela Leon
THE UNIVERSAL ONE