Albis Muñoz, representative of the enterprise sector before the IEO, showed that the Government does not create the conditions to stimulate the investment.

▪ Maria Ramirez Hair
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Little that is reversed is destined to the maintenance of equipment in operation, it indicated the representative of the IEO. Photo File

Albis Muñoz, member of the Council of Administration of the International Labour Convention (IEO) in representation of the employers of Venezuela, showed in interview - telephone route with Mail of the Caroní that the facts provoked in the country with direct consequence on the enterprise productivity are “a plan to end the private sector”.

“Now we have until a penal threat on an enterprise leader, the president of Fedecámaras, Noel Alvarez”, maintained.

Enterprise unions have warned that the electrical rationing will decrease the productivity, reason why consider that the contraction of the Gross Internal Product will continue in the 2010, after a 2009 of -2,9% crease, according to numbers of the Central bank of Venezuela.

“The main problem is the economic policies that have not allowed that the private sector grows”, it said, when indicating that it has been dedicated to document each and every one of the problems provoked in the country, including the RCTV closing the International, to send them to the Council of Administration of the IEO in Geneva, Switzerland, where it will meet in March.

Electrical crisis
The ex- president of the Federation of Cameras and Associations of Commerce and Production of Venezuela (Fedecámaras) indicated that from diverse angles the private sector is being affected.

It mentioned the case of the electrical crisis that it has forced the application of programs of rationing mainly of the country and the saving of 650 MW in the basic companies of Guayana, and maintained that “this situation is serious and serious; and according to which the experts have explained us, the country would be in the dark the next trimester because there is no way to generate electricity because the investment has not occurred sufficiently”.

According to Muñoz he is not deceptive to indicate that “the Government does not create the conditions so that the private investment grows”; on the contrary it moves away, it with measures of expropriation like applied to the chain of supermarkets the Success, of Colombian and French capital.

“While the rest of the world leaves the crisis, deepened we it”, indicated.

Voices of alert
The representative of the IEO in Venezuela maintained that the country has many economic possibilities, but is necessary to create political that they allow his advantage. In that sense, he indicated that the establishment of clear rules of game is necessary and, mainly, to change the policy of destruction of the private sector.

“That of socialist private companies is a rice with handle that nobody understands. Or it is had to the private company and it is fortified since they have made countries like China or North Korea, or are eliminated”, expressed.

Muñoz expressed that the enterprise sector asks for a rectification in the governmental policies and the possibility that a space is abra “to sit down to look for solutions, separating the ideological differences and problems and to assume that the private company is fundamental in any economy”.

The gremialista maintained that the country must press so that the problems are solved then “we cannot allow that the country goes away by a precipice”.

“The alert voices must awake”, emphasized.

Venamcham requests legal security

The general manager of the Camera Venezuelan-American (Venamcham), Carlos Tejera, insisted on the importance of maintaining the confidence in the state of right and the clarity of the game rules, to settle down the foreign investments in the country.

“We have 29 member companies of the camera that have been expropriated, of which only seven have been paid. Our president, Carlos Henrique Blohm, commented in his speech that we considered that 12 billions of dollars are what is owed by these companies” and remembered that “our Constitution says that must be pleased the value of market by these companies”.

Tejera asserted that such measurement “hits what is the intention of the companies, not only of the United States, but of any country of the world to invest in Venezuela”. (Union Radio)