Former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez spoke this Sunday, June 16, with his position regarding the economic and political situation in Colombia under the mandate of Gustavo Petro.
Uribe, who leads the parties that have shown opposition to the Government, He compared the management of this administration with Chávez’s Venezuela.
“The Government ‘bankrupts the economy of the rich and with subsidies administers that of the poor to condemn them to hunger,'” said Uribe. citing the advice that Castro gave to Chávez.
“In Colombia the economy of the ‘rich’ has already been weakened and subsidies for the poor will run out of money in a few years,” the former president added in a letter he shared through his social networks.
He stated that investment in machinery and equipment has been negative and “the rules have changed in many sectors of the economy,” such as in the energy mining case, which according to him, has caused “renewable energy projects to fail.”
Former president Alvaro Uribe at his party headquarters.
Photo:MAURICIO MORENO
“The aggressive official discourse against private companies generates all the distrust,” he added in his message, in which, furthermore, spoke about other sectors, such as housing and infrastructure, against which he stated that “they are quite paralyzed.”
Furthermore, in his letter he also referred to small entrepreneurs, saying that, in his view, “the stores are depressed by the new tax on basic foods.”
Also, about the rural businessmen, who, according to him, “with the excessive multipurpose valuation are pressured to seek to sell the property to the Government.”
He compared his period of government
Former President Uribe used the resource of comparison in his letter, not only with the situation in Colombia and Venezuela, but also with the current administration and his.
“In our government, foreign investment multiplied by three. (…) The income of each Colombian was 2,377 dollars and in 2009 it rose to 5,211 dollars. Agricultural plantings increased more than one million hectares,” the report reads. three page document.
He stated that his administration “was a policy of wealth creation”, with a percentage drop in terms of poverty, despite the international economic crisis of 2008.
Finally, he closed his message by pointing out that “this government will comply and fail to comply. It will comply with the Castro recommendation of eliminating the economy of the rich and will fail to comply with the poor whom it will lead to hardship, going through the joys of subsidies and transitory speeches, all modeled on Chavez.”
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