Statements made by President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, alongside Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, during the Productive Economic Council. teleSUR
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00:00We had already a process opened, more and more fluid with all the economic actors of
00:20the country.
00:21We had a technical team with international advisors at a high level.
00:34We had a response that called my attention as welcome enterprise businessmen of Venezuela
00:46and welcome to business people of the international sector.
00:54The president of the Association of Investors of Argentina welcomed.
01:02And I heard a word that said that the explanation was easy, why in Venezuela we only exported
01:16oil and anything else.
01:20And someone told me, because we don't have that wealth, we don't need it.
01:26We have had a hundred years, a strong paycheck.
01:33Why should we do it if we can't buy it already done?
01:41I knew that the path was still to be built.
01:54We might say difficult as any path that is still not done.
02:04If you have to build the path, you have to build a new.
02:17We have to build a new one to start building a new economy with certain components that
02:25we have been creating.
02:28Today we have a growing economy, strong with real growth with fundamental elements of what
02:43the economy of Venezuela is going to be in the 21st century, which was defined and practical
02:54as propaganda says, looks like a miracle, but it's a plan.
03:01And I say the economy of Venezuela seems like a miracle.
03:06It's a miracle that comes out of a plan, a wise plan of dialogue and understandment.
03:14And an essential component of the great industry, medium and small industry.
03:34I call for entrepreneurs that have came to bring growth, work, and to strengthen the
03:46expectations of economic expectations of Venezuela.
03:52I'm calling for all of the economic actors of Venezuela to focus and make possible that
04:02Venezuela in these next years can develop best a role to diversify the quality of its
04:20products and markets in the world and also of consolidation of the vocation of the economy
04:38of Venezuela.
04:40We need stuff, a lot of stuff for that.
04:45We need financial support, money.
04:52We need to cover the expectations of the international market, but I have always said both things
05:02must be sold at the same time.
05:10And I'm saying this not only for the relaunching of Van Gogh, Mrs. Vice President, Van Gogh
05:23as a friend of mine might say, it's like having a Ferrari in a parking and not riding it.
05:34I say Ferrari, I might say a Porsche or a Rolls-Royce, I'm not going to say a Tesla
05:44because these are terrible vehicles that explode, the motor heats and explodes.
05:55But it's like having a new vehicle and having it in a parking, Van Gogh, from the point
06:07of view, from an organic point of view, technological point of view, from an institutional point
06:15of view, has the conditions to be a great bank of finance, support, and facilitation
06:27of the exportation of the new stage of the economy that Venezuela is living right now.
06:36Here we have economist Guillermo Lara.
06:42You look like your father.
06:44I see him, I remember his father, owner and glory for him, leader and founder along with
06:51Commander Chavez of the Bolivarian Revolution, great man, intelligent, very intelligent.
07:01It's difficult to have someone more intelligent than him, organized, method, methodic analyst.
07:12I knew him, we met in 1995 because Chavez ordered me to look for such William Lara and
07:26I was looking for him and saw him in a corner and we were in a truck and that was the first
07:35day I saw him, owner and glory for him.
07:41Van Gogh is the first thing Mrs. President, Mrs. Vice President, the first thing we need
07:52to strengthen Van Gogh and also the financial support to exports of Venezuela because exportations
08:08need support and strength, that's the main thing.
08:17Lara, can you comment about this, Del Cid Rodriguez, Vice President?
08:22Yes, President, very important this statement of yours because you just approved an amount
08:29of money to capitalize Van Gogh and make it boost the
08:44exporters' need and overcome the obstacles that they might have in their last encounter
08:49they had with you, they exposed their main problems that have to do with the time for
08:54exports which is superior to that of other countries, what might happen in 5-10 days
09:04to export.
09:05Here it's the double, it doubles and also cost and processes, I have approved several
09:13announcements and they're anxious because this is for overcoming all of the obstacles
09:20and all of this politics that allowed this, came out of these encounters, this dialogue,
09:29the common problems, the processes, the protocols, I'm seeing that you have several decrees that
09:41have to do with this and announcements about it but are directed to create a new culture
09:50of export that allows the diversification of the economy, an economy in a country that
09:59is wanted due to its material richness and the economic potential which is being developed,
10:09one of them as the export motor, but behind this is food production, agriculture, industry
10:18and the development of certain sectors, so exports have a basis which is the production
10:27capacity of Venezuela thanks to your economic program.
10:32That's correct, precisely, firstly we're going to sign a decree
10:54with an immediate character, creating the greatest states of export that are not oil,
11:11which was a commitment of the encounter we did with the business people recently, this
11:20greatest state that is going to focus its efforts in exports that are not oil will be
11:27coordinated by the vice president and will have luckily all of the ministries and institutions
11:40linked to exports, the ministry of transportation, agriculture, the minister of economy and finance,
11:57the minister of national production, industry, the ministry of popular power for defense,
12:05general commander of the national guard since it has custody of ports and it has a fundamental role,
12:16so here we are going to focus all of the power so that we can achieve our goal,
12:23lower the percentage of exports from 34 days to 10 days and facilitate the work of those
12:40who produce and export, approve and activate immediately
12:49the major state of exports that are not oil, that is going to be very active and have a lot of power
13:01in the same way,
13:06is it this one?
13:11That's correct, according to the law, complying with the law, I'm going to sign
13:21the confirmation of an agency for promotion of the exports of Venezuela and a specialized
13:31agency, very professional with the highest technological level, agency for promoting
13:41exports in Venezuela, which is focused on studying all of the paths to achieve all of the destinations,
13:56all of the paths to diversify quality products that Venezuela already is putting at disposal
14:07of the international market and also explore the great potential that Venezuela has
14:20to place hundreds of quality products, even innovations, technological innovations
14:28in the international markets and I'm going to appoint as the president of this
14:37bachelor, Daniela Desiree Cabello Contreras, president of the agency of exports of Venezuela,
14:51congratulations Daniela Desiree,
14:57that facilitates the work that the brand Marca País has been
15:07developed in recent affairs, Shanghai, it was successful, now we have to advance in achieving
15:16all of the expectations and the businesses that we have talked about, this is essential,
15:23congratulations Daniela, this is a great cafe,
15:29it's been prepared recently, you don't like coffee, it is not part of your
15:44coercion tactics, did you coerce anyone here,
15:50Mayor Suarez, governor of La Guaira, be careful with her, I'm going to sign the decree
16:04through which I create a group of intervention in the ports of Venezuela
16:15to analyze administrative processes to clean ports of the country as we have never done before,
16:22it's a space that needs reformulation and renovation and I'm appointing as president
16:31of this group of intervention and restructuring ports of the country,
16:46new president of Voliporta, officer Germán Eduardo Gómez Lárez,
16:54who is at the head of this group of restructuring with the position of president of Voliporta,
17:03go ahead, I trust you Gómez Lárez, you are ready for this battle,
17:11I'm giving you the power of a key sector of Venezuela, where I would say without exaggeration,
17:20there is a lot of things left to do, everything probably, advanced ports from a technological
17:31and administrative point of view and they are clean of corruption, facilitate the work of exports
17:41and have to take care of Venezuela, we need to take care of Venezuela in those ports,
17:46take care of the ports and of Venezuela,
17:52taking care of everything we export and those who import goods for our economy,
18:02we're in a new stage of revolutionary accelerations of the necessary changes
18:09for Venezuela in all of the battlefields, in the social one, the economic one,
18:15the educational ones, the political ones, the institutional one,
18:23who's going to carry out this, Gómez Lárez, who's going to lead these changes that Venezuela needs
18:34to ensure the future of the country in the 21st century, who's going to do it,
18:39we are going to do it, patriots of Venezuela,
18:48I mean the whole Venezuela because we all are our homeland,
18:56I trust you, I trust this generation
18:59of officers of Venezuela, I trust our armed forces,
19:08which is full of professionals of the highest level to defend the sovereignty of our nation,
19:15but also professionals to ensure the greatest changes from now on.
19:23And bless that day in which our commander established the civil military union that today
19:34has become fusion military-civil, we moved from the process of union to the process of fusion
19:45for our homeland, which is not a homeland of coward people.
19:53That coerced me and that's why I signed, I feel pity for those who said that,
20:06for him, this sir,
20:12I feel pity for the fact that a Venezuelan as professionals of law say,
20:23Salida, nobody can
20:36and use his silliness as a mechanism of defense,
20:41lawyers says, nobody's perfect, I appreciate lawyers a lot,
20:49but nobody can use his clumsiness as a mechanism of defense,
21:00nobody can use its cowardice and treason as a defense.
21:07If we compare here, do you allow me here this comment?
21:13If we compare who is the most coerced or pursued, Gonzalez-Urrutia for a brilliant
21:23lady as Delcy Rodriguez or Nicolás Maduro, who has been attacked with missiles,
21:32trans, sanctions, and is threatened every day in the world,
21:37sanctions, and is threatened every day in the world, it's a matter of values, of moral,
21:48who is coerced, who has been threatened the most throughout decades and centuries, Hugo Chávez
21:58and Nicolás Maduro. Have you seen me hesitate, shake, or fear, or excuse me?
22:10What I have said to the people always is courage than union,
22:19because we're moving forward and we're going to get out of this situation,
22:25and when we have been in difficult times,
22:32I might say scared Americans spoke bad about me, the European Parliament doesn't
22:42accept me. Do you remember the era of Guaido? What didn't they do? This is Guaido part two,
22:51but if the part one was as Hegel and Marx said, the history was a tragedy, now it's a comedy.
23:04But I could say more, Mrs. Vice President, it's a tragic and a comedy fact as well.
23:12It's the same story of Guaido, and I feel shame for the fact that you,
23:19González Urrutia, who asked for mercy to me, have no word, have no value,
23:29and use your clumsiness and your cowardice to save, I don't know what,
23:36I don't know why are you saving, because your moral, you lost it forever.
23:42And here we are, the Venezuelans who are in Venezuela, willing to keep working for this land,
23:50for the homeland, for peace, for life, and for the real development of our republic.
23:54That's all. We are not going to waste more time, and those people, let's start working,
24:03because the product of our work is what it's worth. The product of years of efforts and
24:10perseverance, we have found the path for economic development, and we will continue to do so.
24:24Development for peace, for independence and sovereignty, and true democracy, and we
24:33are not going to get out of that path by anybody or anything. So let's keep
24:40walking that path, as I have been saying. I signed this already.
24:48I signed it. As you can see,
24:58you are witnesses that I signed it without coercion approved.
25:04And in the same way, I'm signing a decree through which, vice president,
25:22we're going to liquidate the National Center of Foreign Trade.
25:28And in the same way, we are going to move on. I created the CENCOE.
25:37When I created it, it was a transformation.
25:44It was reforming the Caribbean, which was a heritage of those systems of control, of exchange,
25:54which was a way with which our republic worked for a hundred years. The money of oil
26:05entered, and we spent it to import. But lately, Commander Chavez decided that we needed to invest
26:18the money from oil in development, industrial development, luckily.
26:27But the importance of
26:32oil was important.
26:36With Carlos Oyo, an economist, who graduated from the University of Carabobo.
26:44And I started to take steps. I created a National Center for Foreign Trade.
26:57First step.
27:04The Minister of Trade wasn't helping. He was too weak. And more things.
27:13He was the one that called me by the end of the month
27:27to cry and weep and say, President,
27:30500 million lacks to complete what I need to demand. But he never thought of what was needed
27:45to develop the country. And I had to solve the problem of the 500 million to complete 4,000
27:53million for imports that by year were almost 50,000 million. He was too weak, too coward,
28:01and many other things. I regret naming him, appointing him Minister of Trade.
28:09That's why I am very happy
28:16of being able to say the distress of yesterday, the model that was hurting the country.
28:26We have overcame them. And people like that minister are trash of our history.
28:34And I'm going to sign the liquidation of Senkoe. And let's start with new stuff,
28:41which is produced to export. That's it.
28:52And let's analyze something very interesting.
28:58Let's go to the industrial area of Guarena in the Guarena paths. The pharmaceutical industry
29:10of Leti Laboratories, Minister Gutierrez is there, and a businessman, precisely Venezuela,
29:20precisely Venezuela is able
29:27to have their laboratories put in their products in international markets. Go ahead.
29:36From the heat of La Guaira to the heat of Guarena.
29:42We were live to Caracas, Venezuela, where the president, Nicolas Maduro,
29:46offered statements during the economic council export chapter that took place in La Guaira.
29:52During his remarks, the president, all assured, informed that today Venezuela has a strong
29:58economic growth, and the people is willing to work for the economic development that the country
30:04needs. During his remarks, the president also assured that the focus now is on making possible
30:12that Venezuela can diversify their products in the international market. And also for her part,
30:18the vice president, who was also part of this press conference, assured that several decrees
30:26are being approved, and also there was approved an important amount of money to help Venezuelan
30:33economic actors to overcome difficulties, and also to expedite the process of exportation
30:40of products, and also to boost food production, the agricultural capacity, and many other economic
30:47projects. There is much to be done, according to the president Maduro, like receiving more financial
30:54support and reaching also the expectations of the international market, but the country is on
31:00the right path for it, according to the president. Also, the president condemned the intentions of
31:06the far right to sink Venezuela's economy, while the country is giving so much and also working so
31:13hard for the economic growth that all Venezuelans long for. This is all for the moment, stay tuned,
31:20we're from the south.