In the last few hours, through their social networks, The ex-president Alvaro Uribe issued a statement on the economic situation of the country. Even, The former president compared the management of the country with the administration of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.
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“The Government bankrupts the economy of the rich and with unsustainable subsidies administers that of the poor to condemn them to hunger. Castro’s advice to Chávez was clear, he told him: end the economy of the rich and manage that of the poor, but first win the elections, campaign against corruption and inequality,” said the former president.
Uribe He also criticized the reforms of this Governmentensuring that they only concentrate on providing subsidies and ending private companies as happened in the neighboring country.
“The Venezuelan people did not realize the Chavista damage until very late. While the Government spent on subsidies for imported goods, a high percentage of the 60,000 million dollars of oil exports was spent bringing imported, subsidized goods,” stated the former president.
He added, “it expropriated and destroyed private companies. “The Venezuelan people did not realize the damage when the drop in oil production and the drop in price came, they could no longer import as much and there was nothing to substitute, poverty rose to more than 80%.”
In the same way, Uribe spoke about what he did in his Government.
“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 crops increased by more than one million hectares,” reads the three-page document. (…) It was a policy of wealth creation, with a percentage reduction in terms of poverty, despite the international economic crisis of 2008″, he pointed out.
Finally, Uribe closed his statement by assuring that “We have to defeat this neo-Marxism, clarity and determination are needed to lower taxes, reduce the structure of the Bureaucratic State, give confidence and stability to private enterprise. Move forward with the fraternal economy and sustainable social policies that do not hinder your source of income, which is the private economy. Also really promote youth entrepreneurship and alternative education of short cumulative cycles. With the young people who, with the new law, have reduced chances of having a decent pension, or alternative savings,” he concluded.
