Kazakhstan, a country located in Central Asia, is experiencing a deep crisis after the various protests that have been registered mainly due to the rise in fuel. It is in this scenario that an unknown piece of information emerged, and it is that the former Minister of Finance, Andrés Velasco, was an advisor to the Supreme Council of Reforms of this country.
During the day this Thursday, the former Minister of Finance, Andrés Velasco, has become a trend in social networks due to the deep crisis that Kazakhstan is experiencing.
Let us remember that the president of this Asian country ceased his government on Wednesday and decreed a state of emergency in response to the unusual protests in the city of Almaty, the economic capital and most important city of this nation.
The protests broke out on January 2 after the rise in the price of liquefied gas, the country’s main automotive fuel, which went from being worth 60 tenge per liter ($ 0.14) to worth 120 tenge per liter ($ 0.28) .
Velasco and his unknown role as adviser to Kazakhstan
Along these lines, why would Andrés Velasco be linked to the crisis in Kazakhstan?
On October 21, 2020, Michelle Bachelet’s former Finance Minister was part of a group of experts that advised the Government of Kazakhstan.
According to the president of this country, Qasym-Jomart Toqayev, in that month the first meeting of the Supreme Council of Reforms was held.
The head of state of Kazakhstan also said that this entity sought “to give a new direction to economic modernization, social development and institutional reforms.”
I held the first meeting of the Supreme Council for Reforms. This body should give a new direction to economic modernization, social development and institutional reforms. We need innovative approaches that should form the basis of the Strategic Development Plan of the country until 2025. pic.twitter.com/EOhpWafmTG
— Qasym-Jomart Toqayev (@TokayevKZ) October 21, 2020
“We need innovative approaches that should form the basis of the country’s Development Plan until 2025,” said Qasym-Jomart Toqayev.
But it was the middle The Astana Times, which reported that the Council was made up of members such as “the prime minister, the president of the recently created Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms Kairat Kelimbetov”, as well as “renowned foreign experts such as Andrés Velasco, Lord Francis Maude and Lord Philip Hammond ”.
That is how different Twitter users began to create hypotheses about a link between the economist and the crisis in the Asian country.
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