Second deputy president of the Federation of Chambers of Industry & Commerce (Fedecamaras), Noel Alvarez has proposed a social dialogue between government, workers and employees to help solve food shortages and distribution problems. Resurrecting the idea of the defunct tripartite system of negotiations, Alvarez says he wants to see a national agreement set up, something the government has been denying for a long time. The government should allow itself to be helped, the businessman states, and cites the example of the positive collaboration between the private and public sector to build the Caracas-La Guaira viaduct ... "the government must allow itself to be helped by people who know how to produce." Albornoz recalls that the problem of shortages started in 1996 and since then the number of productive companies have fallen from 12,771 to 7,208 registered in 2006.
Federation of Industry (Fedeindustria) president, Miguel Perez Abad has suggested that the government clarify norms, extend credit lines and facilitate red tape for import licenses and foreign currency to help overcome the food shortage and distribution problems, currently affecting Venezuela. Perez Abad says the great majority of Venezuelan businessman run their businesses adequately and the only way to fight shortage and speculation is to adjust prices of regulated products and facilitate currency for importers. The pro-government businessman made the statement after meeting National Assembly (AN) second deputy president, Jose Albornoz. According to the Fedeindustria president, the two men did not discuss structural matters but rather how to improve the country's capacity of purchases on an international level "in such sensitive areas as milk, sugar and other products that are having problems."
Executive Vice President Ramon Carrizalez is heading the introduction of 13 committees aimed at covering critical areas in Venezuelan's health system, such as infrastructure, medicine supplies, medical staff salaries and the prevention of epidemic and endemic illness. The initiative is restricted for the time being to the Caracas Metropolitan area. The measure is seen as an answer to public criticism over government reaction to the re-emergence of dengue. Fundamental to the review, the Vice President states, is the educational and communication campaign to prevent epidemic diseases. According to the Pan-American Health Organization (OPS) and contrary to opposition attacks, Venezuela has made great strides in fighting dengue based on its integral administration strategy to fight the disease that was applied in 2004. The program is based on entomology, patient care, clinics, social communication, community participation and environmental health. OPS expert, Jose San Martin points out that Venezuela has specialists in the field. The recent outbreak of dengue, San Martin claims, is not restricted to Venezuela and he states that there would have been far more victims if governments had not put into place plans to control the disease.
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A government heading towards socialism shouldn't allow itself to be drawn into "committees" dominated by businessmen intent on short-circuiting the democratic process and maintaining their personal control over a country's production sectors -- to the detriment of the country. As always, the community councils of the people should discover the facts on the ground where they live, and national policy set on that basis, by whatever means. That is, democratic means.
ReplyDeleteAnd the businessmen WILL comply with the national plan. Anything else is sabotage.