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"The Economic War is a Huge Lie", Reinaldo Quijada Assures

REINALDO QUIJADA, THE CANDIDATE OF UPP89


Caracas, April 24th - According to the Venezuelan candidate of the Party UPP 89,  Reinaldo Quijada, the President and candidate running up for the re-election, Nicolás Maduro, , has made lies his main instrument of government and considers that the greatest of them is the "economic war". It exposes the arguments that sustain its affirmation and says that it is the most evident sign of the "ethical claudication" of the government.

"The great lie of the IV Republic, of the years before Chavez, was to point out that the Orinoco Oil Belt contained not 'oil' but 'bitumen', and for that reason it was called the Bituminous Belt of the Orinoco.An entire country was deceived, the oil was sold at the price of coal.The equivalent, in our days, is the 'economic war', narrative of a lie held in time and fed with the media support, the support of some economists and even some intellectuals ", Quijada warns.

"Certainly, there was an antecedent that was true, the economic and oil sabotage of the end of 2002 and the beginning of 2003 with which an attempt was made to overthrow the government of President Chávez." Then began the feast of the diversion of foreign currency, the fraud in the use of the preferential currencies, the bleeding of the country, but already that phase was done with the complicity of the responsible governmental entity CADIVI, and then also of the BCV and the general laxity of the government, the same serious business, that there is, and it is not the minority, was subject to the obligation to pay bribes to obtain the foreign currency and coerced into silence, others were accomplices ".

"The real ethical breakdown came with the illness of President Chávez - recalls Quijada - and then with his death, although in 2008 we had the background of PDVAL converted by public opinion into PUDREVAL. Most of the foreign companies, manufacturers of food or inputs, sell directly to the Venezuelan government, but they do so through intermediaries or briefcase companies that had access to preferential currencies.Public companies, like CASA, always buy at much higher prices At international prices, these surcharges are evident when compared to purchases of small volumes of the same products made by private sector companies, they also buy low quality or expired products at prices of premium products. rise "in international prices and never in" low. "It is bought in unusual terms in the international (terms FOB or FAS, instead of CIF terms that was a mandatory requirement of CADIVI). The containers that brought the imports of PDVAL, belonged to PDVAL, when it is normal that they belonged to companies specialized in handling containers. All this network of procedures, strange or atypical in world trade, what they sought was to hide corruption. And, finally, the government stopped "nonsense", 3 years ago, it reserved all the imports of food and supplies with the intention of not showing up with huge surcharges and other irregularities.

"Most of these facts we denounced in a communication sent to President Maduro and VP Arreaza, on April 25, 2013, that is, only 6 days after Maduro took office, but no one paid any attention to us", The candidate Quijada ends his explanation.

Reinaldo Quijada is a presidential candidate of the UPP 89 and has electoral support from other leftist organizations such as Marea Socialista.


Read the original version in Spanish, here: https://www.aporrea.org/economia/n324156.html

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