First Round of Commercial Exchange “Handmade in Venezuela” Began

Published at: 08/10/2024 08:39 PM

This Tuesday, October 08, the Bolivarian Government began the First Round of Commercial Exchange “Handmade in Venezuela”, in Caracas, with which the recently created National Center for Crafts participates, in response to the Great Mission Viva Venezuela, My Beloved Homeland, in order to acquire handmade and artisanal pieces starting this Christmas and incorporate the cultivators and Cultivate the productive engines of the Bolivarian Economic Agenda.

In the activity installed at the La Carlota Convention Center, broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión, the Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, stressed that “this activity begins a new phase in the world of popular crafts in Venezuela, welcome to this round of artisanal commercial exchange”.

On his account on the social network Instagram, Villegas specified that “about 500 artisans from all the states of the country participate in the First Round of Commercial Exchange with institutions of the Venezuelan State, with a view to the holiday season,” he said.

In this installation of this First Round, the Minister of Popular Power for Indigenous Peoples, Clara Vidal; the Minister for National Trade, Luis Villegas, the Minister of Popular Power for Tourism, Leticia Gómez and the president of the Marca País Institute, Daniella Cabello, also participated.

In addition, together with officials, leaders of the Venezuelan Cultural Movement and State institutions, Villegas announced that this activity included part of the 200,000 cultivators who registered in the Great Mission, with half a thousand artisans and artisans from all over the nation, who exhibit their handmade products.

For her part, the president of the Art Network and leader of the Artisan Heart Movement, Araceli García, explained that artisans manufacture their pieces and are currently leading a fruitful dialogue, for the construction of a sustainable cultural economy by an immense collective.

He pointed out that among the pieces that will be shown and traded with State institutions, are the hammock, chinchorros, basketry, stone and wood carvings, goldsmithery, metalwork, espadrilles, paintings, drums, and national artisanal toys.

“May this beginning of the First Round of commercial exchange carried out in Venezuela by hand serve to inaugurate also an important school for the country, citizen minister, because what you are seeing here today and what is present in this convention center that bears the name of our Liberator Simon Bolivar, are teachers and teachers of the Fatherland who have preserved a know-how that is useful, is beautiful and that contains the identity of the country,” he said.