The ecstasy of Ferrominera Orinoco and Sidor reduces in 500 million strong bolivars the income received by the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana, blow that is added to the suffered one with the exit of Edelca, consequently force to the CVG would be taking off and generating its dismemberment little by little.
Noel Hernandez, main director of the board of directors of the CVG, showed that the institution is paralyzed operative and it only owns resources to cancel the list of the personnel until the month of March.
Also the director (substitute) of the directive of the corporation, Cecilio Pineda, emphasized that the impact in budget 2009 is quite strong and will bring consequences in the labor scope. “All this generates uncertainty because it is being left to the CVG without his financial arm”.

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The limited resources of CVG will restrict the execution of projects

The CVG, founded the 29 of December of 1940, based their mission on the urban, industrial and human development. Little it is of those essential elements, because its function went to the construction of the socialist mother country, still in project, whose “profits” resist with the productive deterioration and the lack of impulse to the urban development of the region.

The “strength” located heart of Ordaz Port in the heat of, is now debilitated day to day and with more force, after than it was decided to create to the National Iron and steel Corporation that will have between its rows to the extractor and iron mineral processor, Ferrominera Orinoco, and to the Iron and steel of the Orinoco “Alfredo Maneiro” (Sidor), whose surpluses of box, at least a part, went directed to the institution.

The first blow had been given with the creation of the National Electrical Corporation (Corpoelec) that retired to the Edelca - most solid of its branchs of the had the charge of ones of the CVG.

The gradual dismemberment of the CVG has generated great preoccupation in the labor mass that it avoids to see beyond the visible thing, to avoid the difficulties.

Operative paralysis
Noel Hernandez, main director of the board of directors of the CVG, declared that the institution is paralyzed operative, and owns resources to cancel the list of the personnel until the month of March.

“We do not know any type plan to eliminate to the CVG inasmuch as from the month of December the CVG directory does not meet… we have tried to make contact with the enemy with minister of Basic Industries and Minería and president of the CVG, Rodolfo Sanz, and it enters today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday) must exist an approach to the aims to approach the situation that is affecting the administrative and financial handling of the CVG”.

The director of the holding company rejected the transference of Ferrominera Orinoco as well as of Sidor to the new corporation, due to the importance of the contributions granted by these industries to the CVG that served to support the social programs.

Once the transference takes shape, the panorama is discouraging, every time the CVG will not count on 2% of the utilities generated by these had the charge of. “We would happen to depend on a national budget and everybody knows that these always are delayed and created chaos”.

Financial impact
The exit of CVG Edelca in the 2007 supposed the exit of 25 million strong bolivars of the income of the CVG, low compensated with the surpluses of box contributed by Sidor.

Also the director (substitute) of the directive of CVG, Cecilio Pineda, needed that the total income of the originating CVG of the branchs reach the Bs.F. 850 million, that contrast with budget 2009 of the CVG of Bs.F. 1.248, 9 million, that are possible to emphasize is inferior in Bs.F. 147,8 million to the one of 2008.

The exit of FMO and east Sidor year reduce Bs.F. 500 million of the total of perceived income of branchs, that is to say, 58% of the entrances.

Pineda emphasized that the impact in budget 2009 is quite strong and will bring consequences in the labor scope with regard to the benefits and to the fulfillment of the collective hiring.

“All this generates uncertainty because it is being left to the CVG without his financial arm”, it assured Pineda, when emphasizing that the directors have not been consulted on these decisions.

It indicated, in addition, that it is spoken of the creation of the Corporation of Aluminum and the Corporation of Gold, consequently CVG would be integrated only by companies of services.

“We have fulfilled”
“the CVG has fulfilled Guayana”, emphasized Noel director Hernandez, when assuring that each space of the city counts on a work of the corporation. “It is not certain that the CVG does not produce anything, the CVG produces social welfare”, emphasized.

“The eagerness on the part of the present authorities to diminish the impact that has had CVG in the development of Guayana limits a clear vision to them”, said, while it recommended to fortify to the institution through concrete plans of social and industrial development to fulfill his roll of creation and to return to his original spirit.

The conditions in which is the CVG have exacerbated the uncertainty of the population and more than 3 thousand workers of the first house. “We are worried about the CVG and by the Guayana region because the impact that would generate the exit of 3 thousand workers would be very strong and will drag to more than 20 thousand people and all the region because we continued having active presence in the region”.

In agreement with Hernandez, the workers feel preoccupation and deception due to the lack of information and knowledge of the destiny of the Corporation. “Since Victor arrived Alvarez at the CVG, we have come falling and all the companies with counted exceptions throw red numbers what represents an error of president Chávez in the decision making to appoint a president, because no, with the exception of Merciful Scotto, had relation with Guayana at the time”.

The labor directors made a call to the enterprise unions, as well as to the union leaderships and the society generally to be united in a front to defend to the CVG and to guarantee the permanence of the uses.

Paralyzed areas

The majority of the operative areas of CVG is paralyzed by the lack of projects and resources.

Sample of it is the lack of answers to the Civil Associations Pro House, as well as the halting in the beginning of projects of another nature.

“There is will no to make specific solutions”, assured Noel director Hernandez.

On the other hand, the substitute director of the board of directors of the CVG, Cecilio Pineda, showed that the plans anticipated for this year will not be able to be executed. He emphasized the case of the Plan of Fluvial Development of the axis Orinoco-Worry, the installation of an Agro-industrial and Technological Complex for the maize processing, the construction and repair of lines of electrification, and the construction of 9,506 houses.