With the purpose of promoting the economic agenda in the region, Venezuela exposes its potentialities in productive matters with the objective of complying with food security and sovereignty, with the launch of the engines of sustainable development, during the 39th period of sessions of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) 2022, which takes place in Argentina.
“Venezuela has open doors to investments,” said the Vice Minister for Multilateral Issues, Rubén Darío Molina, during his participation in panel number three of the 39th session of ECLAC, referred to a note of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Empower and drive productivity
In his speech, Molina explained details of the strategies of the Bolivarian Economic Agenda carried out by the Government of President Nicolás Maduro, in order to enhance and boost productivity in the country.
He added that in Venezuela there are “10 million hectares available to cultivate and their production would contribute to guaranteeing the food security of the country and the region.”
Deputy Minister Rubén Molina quoted the Venezuelan Head of State, who has repeatedly stated that “the objective of the Bolivarian Economic Agenda is for the country to consolidate its potential, through actions and mechanisms for the development of markets, national production, fair prices and export and import of goods and products.
In this sense, he added that the organization and participation of the Venezuelan people have been key in the process of activating the economy, despite the fact that unilateral coercive measures against the nation are maintained.
He stressed that the “negative effects (of the coercive measures) affect not only the economy of Venezuela, but also transcend the region,” for which he warned that “a blocked country cannot be measured with the same indicators as that country.” that it isn’t. They are two very different economies.
ECLAC: 39th period of sessions
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) began its sessions on Monday, October 24, which will end on Wednesday, October 26.
The event brings together senior authorities from the region, as well as researchers, academics, representatives of civil society and international officials.
During the meeting, ECLAC’s executive secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, unveiled the institutional document entitled “Towards the transformation of the development model in Latin America and the Caribbean: production, inclusion and sustainability.”
The document was commented on by a panel that included the Nobel Prize in Economics, Joseph Stiglitz; the professor of Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, Mariana Mazzucato; the Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia, José Antonio Ocampo, and the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Rebeca Grynspan.
