The Vice President of Unión y Progreso, Rafael Simón Jiménez, rejected that Nicolás Maduro and his government ignore thousands of workers who have taken to the streets for weeks to demand compliance with their contractual rights.
He ruled out the response from Chavismo that affirms that there is no money to pay public employees, when weekly they burn, through the BCV, between 80 and 100 million dollars.
“No worker is asking pay rise. They are asking for what by law and agreement corresponds to them. They are crying out to be paid what they are owed. The government’s labor policy would blush and stun the creator of the Chicago School and the most outrageous enemies of the working class. Everyone would be left in diapers before this government that calls itself workerist and has finished with the working class,” said the leader in an interview with Globovisión.
Jiménez lashed out at Maduro for “ignoring” the workers “saying that there is no money to pay them, when he is burning between 80 and 100 million dollars a week to contain the exchange rate. You have to ask him where those millions of dollars are going.
He said that any measure by the International Monetary Fund or another multilateral organization would remain “pale and would be Snow White and the seven dwarfs, given what the government is doing: liquidation of wages, destruction of work, privileging foreign production.” And he added: “This is the government of the patch and the patch because they do not have the capacity to sustain.”
In his opinion, Maduro should settle with the United States and solve the problem of sanctions to have access to international aid, since they do not have the capacity to make any sustainable economic measure. “We know that the slowness is due to a lack of conviction and that is why it is reasonable that Maduro has the highest levels of rejection, for destroying the country.”
Impose Jorge Arreaza in Barinas
Jiménez took the opportunity to denounce that Maduro is trying to remove Governor Sergio Garrido from Barinas and impose the figure of Jorge Arreaza.
“Maduro asks where Garrido is and the governor was sweeping up mud from the rains with the people in Socopó. Chavismo committed an immense stupidity by ignoring the electoral result on November 11 and that led to a tremendous beating, and now it is trying to implant the figure of Mr. (Jorge) Arreaza, who does not even know Barinas.
And he added: “Maduro is committed to that and I denounce it publicly: he wants to dismantle the government, he takes away the resources to give them to the national government. We come from 22 years of chavismo in Barinas and now he attacks Garrido by creating artificial situations to get him out and ride Arreaza, when he has no leadership opportunity.
Understanding and primaries
Regarding the primaries of the Unitarian Platform, Rafael Simón Jiménez commented that he met with the secretary Omar Barboza and assured that both are clear that it is time for all the oppositions to understand each other.
«I respect him a lot because he is a man of understanding, of dialogue and it is good that the G4 has rectified its policy of confrontation and abstention that squandered the great victory of 2015, but after going from abstention to participation you cannot say that you have the positionometer to say who does not and who does, “he said.
And he added: “We all need each other to get out of the government and it is better to be next to some people that we do not like than to spend six more years of social holocaust with Maduro. There is no other way because we all need each other and that is part of Barboza’s criteria. He knows that you don’t have to put up walls, and whoever wants to marginalize himself is something else ».
He stressed that each opposition leader must channel the feeling of change, lay down their partisan interests and generate political change once and for all.