Faced with the economic blockade that involves the Unilateral and Coercive Measures unjustly dictated against the Venezuelan people by the US government, President Nicolás Maduro Moros, advances a set of strategies with the United Nations System for Industrial Development (UNIDO), with the purpose of raising the productive chains in the agro-industrial area, steel, aluminum, petrochemicals among other prioritized sectors, which have suffered the attacks of the financial blockade, which will allow our country to advance in the diversification of the productive economic apparatus, generate value chains in the country’s internal production and technological sovereignty.
This was indicated by the sectoral Vice President and Minister of People’s Power for Planning, Ricardo Menéndez, during his participation in the webinar of the United Nations Organization for Industrial Development (UNIDO), called Presentation of the Country Program: Venezuela 2018-2024 .
“This launching is the vision of Venezuela to incorporate all the variables necessary for the development of the Plan de la Patria (Homeland Plan). Faced with the economic blockade, Venezuela is obliged to internal development, to the diversification of the productive economic apparatus, forced to the generation of value chains and to the sovereignty of technology, from the point of view of our development model”.
In this sense, the Minister for Planning assured that our country has several challenges, «which we are facing with the United Nations System, while reporting that the launch of iron and steel chains is estimated to produce 30 million of tons of mineral from its processing to the end”.
He also indicated that the construction and cement production chains have been affected by the financial blockade, especially the development of the Great Mission Housing Venezuela (GMVV). He assured that the Bolivarian Government intends to transform the inherited model, “which was established in Venezuela, that of fragmented, broken chains, an industrial model seen from the assemblage and not from internal development. Venezuela is in the top positions in the production of Steel, Aluminum, Gold, Bauxite, Oil, but the production of value chains to the internal, does not exist in the country”.
Likewise, the Sectoral Vice President for Planning raised during the videoconference the subject of Training, and pointed out that Venezuela should take advantage of the demographic bonus, which will end in 2040, that is, most of the population will be economically active. Therefore, it will be necessary to adapt the educational and technological system, to link it to the productive chains.
Finally, he indicated that another important component is spatial development, the relocation of the poles of the territory, the development nodes from the point of view of the territory, «It is the inflection of the spatial model of domination that has been in our territory for 500 years. A reorganization of space and population, based on the Bolivarian Economic Agenda, Industrial Parks and Special Economic Zones.
