With the assistance of the Minister of Industries and National Production, Hipólito Abreu, the governor of the state of Táchira, Freddy Bernal and representatives of the economic sector of the entity, installed the Superior Regional Industrial Bodies (Osir) of the National Production Table.
The activity where the political, economic and trade union representatives of the entity converged was held at the Andrés Bello House of Culture, in the Pedro María Ureña municipality, a venue in which a lecture was given on how to address the Colombian border openingVenezuela that maintains, for seven years, formally paralyzed the commercial exchange between the two countries.
In addition to this, the installation of the industrial bodies, provide for the search for border economic reactivation to present projects that lead to settling tax actions that harm the commercial and industrial production sector that operates in the area.
For the governor of the state of Táchira, it is imperative to add to the reactivation proposals the improvements of the roads in all border axis as well as the construction of an electrical substation that mitigates the failures in the electrical fluid.
“This national production table is part of the strategic plan to strengthen the Productive Economy and the Industrial sector that the president has been promoting with the aim of continuing to advance in the well-being of our people,” he said.
He insisted on the condition that limits the development of the country and therefore, of the region, “we are not in the same conditions as Colombia, we are still blocked.”
Financing and restructuring
The representative of the Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Production Fedecamaras, in the state of Táchira, Maximiliano Vásquez pointed out the need to adapt the structure of the economic apparatus on the border and the barrier that is generated by the lack of resources to initiate the necessary changes. .
“Technological adaptation is necessary (…) we have economic needs for the purchase of machinery and supplies, minister (Hipólito Abreu), which is why financing is necessary,” he asserted.
He highlighted the importance of the opening of the border for the state due to the “commercial and social dynamism it generates” and that after seven years it is necessary to reactivate “the passage of merchandise through international bridges, since through trails, as is giving at present, is not the healthiest or most profitable for both nations: Colombia and Venezuela”.
Tangible improvements in public services
As a necessary action for the border municipalities, the representatives of the chambers of Commerce, Industry and Production of the Bolívar (San Antonio del Táchira) and Pedro María Ureña municipalities reiterated the need to reactivate the General Juan Vicente Gómez international airport as part of a advance that must be developed within the framework of the changes that will be registered with the activation of binational commercial relations.
The need to improve public services: water, electricity and communications (internet) was added to the constant request to repair the roads through which commercial cargo from exchanges with Colombia will transit.
Despite the fact that the exchange house proposal has been handled since the announcement of the reopening of exchanges with Colombia, the topic of clarifying that “the current scenario only benefits Colombian establishments, mainly those that operate in the district of La Parada, was dismissed. , Villa del Rosario municipality of the Norte de Santander department in Colombia”.
National government support for production
Hipolito Abreu, Minister of Popular Power for Industries and National Productionstressed that the executive power is not generating obstacles for the opening of the border, however, it argues that each decision that is made must be within the framework of planning.
Abreu argued that the President of the Republic is aware of all the actions that the productive sectors of the state of Táchira are considering to recover dynamism in the area and that is why he insisted on a strategic reopening.
He recalled that the blockade to which the country is subjected limits border development compared to Colombia to a “disadvantage” in the areas of public services and communication routes.
“We are not against reopening, but it must be planned,” he insisted.
