You get the feeling Chavez is all about having the largest mines in the world?
INDUSTRY President visited factory improvement of rock phosphate
They arrived in Venezuela 25 Belarussian trucks to distribute fertilizers
Soon these vehicles will be manufactured in the Barinas state as part of the plan of industrial development that has drawn the government. About the U.S. crisis, the president said that if his government would not have faced the FTAA and the Revolution had not arrived, we would be in the most appalling crisis
Venezuela already in the first 25 heavy cargo trucks to transport fertilizer and machinery, which the government of Belarus gained through cooperation agreements have been signed between the two countries to transfer technology.
This Sunday, the president toured the factory for improvement of rock phosphate, which builds Pequiven in Moron, Carabobo state, at the wheel of one of these trucks, whose capacity is 30 tons, and that will be manufactured in the state as part of Barinas industrial development plan that has drawn the government.
The gandolas will be used by Pequiven to distribute at the national level more than 9 thousand tons of fertilizer this week traded corporation.
The cost of these trucks is 172 billion bolivars strong, half of what it costs to a vehicle of similar trademarks. "It's part of the development plan for South America: to bring technology to allied countries and then put the factory here for Venezuela and provide cheaper to friendly countries," explained the head of state.
According to the roadmap, this factory profit of rock phosphate will run from March 2009. It is part of the strategic project of the Government to build five large petrochemical poles: Moron, El Tablazo, Jose, Paraguana and Guiria.
Of the mine rock phosphate rock is removed. This rock is beginning to grind in the same mine and then is brought to the plant, which is concentrated phosphorus fertilizer for agriculture that serves the Venezuelan president, and thus do not need to Venezuela amount over this product. "In Tachira we have discovered one of the rock phosphate mines largest in the world: it has 60 million tons, material for about 100 years," said the president.
"For these works do not depend on any international bank. We have struggled to lift our own system of internal and external finances. These resources go by the Regional Development Fund (Fonden), and that money comes from the sale of oil and other sales made by Venezuela. Before, that he was not selling anything to Venezuela. Escaped hundreds of millions of dollars, "he explained.
Revolution Without financial crisis had dragged into Venezuelan banks
He recalled that "one of the proposed Free Trade Area for the Americas was nothing more and nothing less than the free flow of capital, ie without restrictions or protectionist measures, What abhorrence, governments that protect! Venezuela: exchange control, what horror!, Chavez is a troglodyte. Would have been virtually eliminated the central bank and national currency. "
"If it had not reached the Revolution, at this stage we would be drowned in the depth of the most appalling crisis that would have remembered the story. The United States wanted to become its colony forever, that the dollar flow and capital move freely. If that had happened, those banks that are broken today had swallowed the Venezuelan private and public banks, "he said.
Presidential Press / Emilce Chacon