The elected president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said that he plans to return the administration of the Venezuelan state company Monómeros, located in Barranquilla, to the Venezuelan government presided over by Nicolás Maduro, in order to reduce the cost of fertilizers in his country.
“In the Monómeros company of the Venezuelan petrochemical company Pequiven, the urea used in our country was produced. Iván Duque caused the loss of fundamental raw material in the Colombian agricultural sector, in addition to creating a financial strangulation (of the Venezuelan state company), more because of Colombian officials, “he assured during an interview with the Colombian radio station La W.
He asserted that “the majority owner of Monómeros is Pequiven. The business idea is for Pequiven to produce urea”. Likewise, he criticized that with what the current president Duque did against the company “we lost the urea.”
He limited not knowing if Juan Guaidó or Leopoldo López (the latter exiled in Spain) are the ones who manage Monómeros for now, but he did make it clear that it is not Pequiven.
“So, we lost the fundamental raw material for Colombia. The company ended up practically closing its operations and lost the market it had in the country and Colombia is already importing its fertilizers of Russian origin.”
He said that this is one of the actions that aim to restore the economy that existed for the year 2008 between the Colombian-Venezuelan trade. “Great responsibility and opportunity for the business community of the northeast,” he said on his twitter and indicated that “all of this will serve to offset part of the loss of foreign exchange due to the drop in the world price of crude oil.”
For his part, Luis Fernando Velasco, coordinator of Gustavo Petro’s team for the issue of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic, warned that “I have great concern, that Monómeros is still in the hands of Guaidó, Monómeros in the hands of Guaidó It was a disaster, it disappeared.”
