Government of Venezuela Guarantees Funds to the Popular Powers and Social Projects

The head of state pointed out that, from the first popular consultation held in 4,500 communal circuits on 21 April, 4,243 projects were approved.

Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, urged on Tuesday ministers, mayors and governors to break the bureaucracy and that the money for financing projects reach the grassroots and municipal councils, and reported on the disbursements made by the Venezuelan government.

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When Nicolás Maduro said during the Federal Government Council that by 2028, 6,000 communes are expected to be consolidated, vice president Delcy Rodríguez reported that, from the first popular consultation, All projects at an implementation level of almost 68 per cent have already been fully disbursed. “Resources for second projects are starting to drop,” he stressed.

The head of state pointed out that, from the first popular consultation held in 4,500 communal circuits on 21 April, 4,243 projects were approved, and 67.9 percent have been completed. Similarly, Nicolás Maduro added that 14 percent of the second consultation has been executed.

He detailed that “28 percent of the approved projects correspond to water; 17 percent to roads; 16 percent to housing; followed by electricity, health and education”, while Nicolás Maduro said «we must concentrate all efforts, Madam Vice-President, Mr Vice President of the Council, Minister for Communes».

«We are doing all the effort, but you, regional and municipal leaders, can do much more, so that in the 4,508 communal circuits our people advance at an accelerated pace in the concretion of the projects they approved», he said.

Meanwhile, the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, pointed out that five disbursements have been made to the governorates this year, “with a good level of execution and 531 projects”.

On the other hand, Nicolás Maduro insisted on strengthening the concept of municipalization of politics “so that politics is made with a big P, a homeland, a people, to listen to who needs to be listened to”.

The official insisted that growth is a product of national effort and good policies that we have achieved with low inflation and high level of revenue and argued that for the media opinion, investing in people is waste.  

“For them waste is to invest in communal circuits, that the money reaches more for projects of governance,” said Maduro. We have created “a plan that has managed to articulate the best of Venezuelan economic thought,” he said.

Insisting that “we must sit down and work for the interests of the people,” the Venezuelan president highlighted social investment as a fundamental bet.

“It is the investment necessary for the country to follow its course, step by step towards a full and total recovery of the function of the right and the happiness of the majority,” he described.

Maduro insisted that the recovery is consolidating, while he acknowledged that “sanctions against Venezuela have been a shot in the US’s foot. Sanctions cannot come back. We have been able to face more than 900 sanctions and nothing will stop us”.