«In the face of imperialist aggressions, desperate, full of hatred, it is Venezuela’s turn to work and more work, love and more love to have a homeland. Venezuela will resist, will face all the aggression and through work will overcome», said the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, during the Productive Supervision Session of the CLAP (Local Supply and Production Committees) Packaging Center, located in Fort Tiuna, in Caracas.
The Trump administration has launched an economic blockade against the Bolivarian nation, attacking the main oil industry in Venezuela, and has ordered the cessation of transactions for the purchase of supplies and medicines, as well as any commercial exchange for the purchase of food.
In the face of the brutal onslaught by the United States. The Venezuelan head of state has promoted alternative plans that have included the strengthening of cooperative relations with countries such as: Russia, Turkey, China, Iran, Belarus, among others, for the promotion and development of the country’s economy.
Similarly, the National President has created national plans to fully address the Venezuelan people, which is why last April 17 activated the Productive Journey through the signing of the Decree for the Protection of Seed Producers and other actions that bet to guarantee the supply and distribution of food for the people.
Here are the most important keys of the journey:
- President Maduro signs decree for the protection of seed producers. This decree allows all legal protection, financial protection and carry out this productive process.
- The decree declares as crops: Beans, topocho, plantains, black beans, corn, potatoes, pigeon pea, yucca, ocumo, yam, pumpkin, celery, medicinal plants.
- The items of war for the breeding of animal species are: goats, rabbits, poultry, cattle and pork.
- The Head of State ordered the strengthening of the Protein Plan, to guarantee the people everything they need for their life, for their life in society.
- Production was established in the countryside, peri-urban, peri-rural areas, all forms of production, a national productive revolution that marks the Venezuelan countryside.
- The Venezuelan State has 30 national packing centers to satisfy the Venezuelan household with the Clap.
- President Maduro called for a strong recovery of sovereign open-air markets.
- It was set a target of 3,000 open-air markets per month, to cover 4, 5, 6 million families throughout the country and bring all the products to the people.
- The National President directed to recover and redefine the Mercal System.
- The entire Distribution System of the CLAP must be made through the Carnet De La Patria (Homeland Card) system, so the CLAP (subsidized food box) is paid through the Card «so that no one lies to us, and no one deviates the products».
