Delcy Rodríguez: PDVSA has always been at the center of the dispute over Venezuela

Published at: 16/10/2024 01:19 PM

During the launch of the National Petrochemical Revolutionary Patriotic Bloc, the Minister of Popular Power for Petroleum, Delcy Rodríguez, highlighted this Wednesday the rescue of Venezuela's energy industry after the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution.

“When we see the oil history of Venezuela, we know what Hugo Chávez did and what we owe Hugo Chávez and, if I were a worker at this petrochemical complex, proud that my workplace is called Hugo Chávez Frías, of what his doctrine, his legacy, his history means,” said the Executive Vice President of the Republic.

He stressed that when oil broke into the Venezuelan economy, “it did so with the transnational corporations that seized our wealth and that remains the same dilemma that our country has today, our energy resources, how to defend and guarantee them in a sovereign way for national development and not for transnational corporations to steal them.”

In his speech, he criticized the fact that during the Fourth Republic governments were responding to a surrendering policy of puntofixism. “We cannot forget nationalization, duly called chucuta, chimba. Carlos Andrés Pérez did not nationalize Venezuela's energy industry,” he said.

He recalled that the technological and marketing agreements that were linked to this nationalization process show that this fact was incomplete, because the same transnational corporations continued to impose conditions on oil companies, they could not even hire a doorman who was not authorized by transnational corporations.”

In this regard, he pointed out that immense compensation was paid “to mask the high cost that we paid for that supposed independence and nationalization, and there were contracts of technological dependence, dependence on marketing and operational as well.”

Rodríguez emphasized that after the arrival of Commander Hugo Chávez, “what was ready for candy, under the modernized name of the oil opening, was the most profound denationalization and privatization of PDVSA, which has always been at the center of the dispute over Venezuela, but the lightning struck (Chávez) and broke out and ended the privatization of PDVSA and came a process of socialization of the State in the service of the Venezuelan people.”

Mazo News Team