Delcy Rodríguez orders a plan to optimize assets and strengthen production in Venezuela

Caracas.- The acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, installed this Wednesday with her economic team a commission that will be in charge of developing a strategic plan for the management of the nation’s public assets, in order to “raise production levels”. In a broadcast on the state-owned channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), the president, who assumed the position after the capture of Nicolás Maduro in January by the United States, explained that the commission aims at the productivity of her country and aims to “address the strategic aspects of national life” and strengthen the State. «We want to give, precisely, agility and modernity to state processes», affirmed the Chavista leader, who explained that, in a first stage, the commission will classify state assets into categories, one of them with the assets belonging entirely to the State and another with those that have participation from the private sector. A third category includes assets that will be evaluated to, he explained, determine “which assets are not actually necessary for the State’s strategic processes,” and another those that would go to a liquidation process.

Meeting with government sectors and representation of the private sector

The meeting was attended by the vice president of the economic area, Calixto Ortega, the Minister of National Industries and Commerce, Luis Villegas; the Minister of Communes, Ángel Prado, and the head of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Anabel Pereira. Also present were the Attorney General, Arianny Seijo, as well as the former president of the Venezuelan Confederation of Industrialists (Conindustria) Luigi Pisella, representing the private sector.

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On April 8th, the acting president announced a series of measures to boost the Venezuelan economy, although without defining concrete actions, and which involve a review of the Chavista model, with the promise of a labor dialogue, a salary increase, tax reforms and real estate laws.
So, he ordered the formation of a commission for the “strategic” evaluation of the country’s assets, although he clarified that this process would not include the hydrocarbons industry, opened this year to the private sector and foreign investment with a substantial reform of the oil law approved amid the rapprochement with the US.