68% of the population reject nationalizations in the country

Blohm: “There are laws that affect the private property” (V. Palaces/File)

In the last opinion poll of Hinterlaces, realised the last week of February and first of March, was observed that 68% of the Venezuelans reject the mechanisms of expropriation and nationalization used by the Government.

His executive director, Oscar Schemel, said in forum Perspective Social 2010, made by the American Venezuelan Camera of Commerce and Industry (Venamcham), that “the majority of Venezuelans questions these measures of expropriation and nationalization advanced by the Government”. And “near 70% esteem that these policies threaten the private property”.

The analyst indicated that “in Venezuela the poschavista stage began, the day in which the devaluation of the bolivar announced. 65% think that president Hugo Chavez must give the power in 2012 to a new leadership, and 67% of the population showed that the things in the country do not go by good way: it has I disillusion, frustration”.

It assured Schemel that the speech of the socialism of the captive 21st century only to 31% of the population. “The expectation of the Venezuelans is not in president Chávez, is in the search of an alternative”.

Investment and use
The president of Venamcham, Carlos Henrique Blohm, assured in the forum that from 2007 to the date, in 30 companies - affiliates to that organism “their assets have been taken by the State. Of that total, 6 have been compensated only partial or totally. They are more than $12 billions in assets that have not been paid and we want that justice becomes”.

And it indicated that “there is a series of laws promulgated by the National Assembly or decree, that affects the private property”. It emphasized the Law of Nationalization of the Service of Hydrocarbons, “that it establishes the indemnification to value book and in addition it does not establish the payment of counted, as it anticipates the Constitution of the Republic”.

Also one talked about the Urban Earth Law, in which “it is defined in vague form what is private property and is in the hands of the advice Co munales; it gives a right him of preference to the public sector for the lands that therefore are defined that they are not private property”.

The Law of reform of the Indepabis also stood out that “declares of public utility all the goods and means of production and distribution, creates a very great uncertainty”.

Blohm indicated that with these legal instruments “most important it is what is stopped doing. There are investments that there are to do by technology or because the fields (oil) are very attractive like the blocks that were offered to two international companies in Faja of the Orinoco; but the question is how it would be the investment and the productive use if there were not those expropriations and those laws that generally affect to the private property and the State of Right”.

The executive remembered that 80% of the population work in the private sector. “The private company is the main source of uses and contributes more than 50% of the income to the state treasury”.

Mariela Leon
THE UNIVERSAL ONE