The Executive Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, during an interview on the “Conexión Global” program broadcast by Telesur, described the blockade imposed by the United States government against the Venezuelan people as an economic genocide.
In that sense, she emphasized that the labor sector is the most affected by the economic blockade, however she highlighted that the new integral indexed minimum income will be equivalent to 60 dollars for active employees, and 25 dollars for pensioners: “What we have to give to our workers has been done with our own efforts,” she added.
In turn, she pointed out that due to said blockade, the country lost 642 billion dollars, but that the national union was the response to this criminal onslaught: “We must acknowledge that Venezuela has reinvented itself in all its senses.”
“What we have to give to our workers has been done with our own efforts. It is important for the people to know that the one who is in Miraflores is a worker,” she added.
In relation to this, the vice president highlighted that one of the important announcements that President Nicolás Maduro made yesterday, has to do without a doubt with the workers income, because the first victim of the criminal blockade have been the country’s workers:
“When the hardest suffocation occurred, when they removed, restricted, suppressed 99% of the foreign currency income in this country, it was about leaving Venezuela with nothing, absolutely nothing; a country that had an annual income of 65 billion dollars, 56 billion dollars, I remember, we reached 2020 with 740 million dollars, and the year that passed was a year of progress, but as the President has said, there is still a long way to go, but what we have achieved has been through our own efforts,” she pointed out.
