During the 20 years of the revolution, the Venezuelan industrial park has been reduced by more than 80%, according to the figures handled by the Venezuelan Confederation of Industrialists, Conindustria.

In fact, the President of Conindustria, Juan Pablo Olalquiaga, said that according to the industrial census in 1997, in Venezuela there were 12,700 private operating companies with high levels of production, today there are only 2,500 of these companies that are Operating below 20%.

Remember that Conindustria conducts a survey on a quarterly basis to a significant number of companies, on the status and difficulties they face and the study has shown that there has been a decrease in the operational capacity of companies and many of them were forced to close.

"The sampling that is done for the survey is about 400 companies representing a universe of 2,600 companies and we determine that 22% of the companies have closed".

Ratifies that the worst hit sectors have been those that have run out of raw materials, such as the steel sector, metalworking sector and auto parts, stressed that the automotive sector in Venezuela has an installed capacity to assemble more than 170 thousand and in the year 2017 there was a considerable drop "only 1,040 were assembled, and so far this year 705 units have been assembled with the hope of reaching 1,000 units by the end of the year, and every year are worse because every time we are more involved in the pit and in the end there may be no transforming companies. "

When a country lives from doing nothing that is finite in time "then when the high prices of oil are running out, the possibilities of sustaining that population without doing anything are not there and the possibilities of maintaining goods without producing are not there either and that's what we have today. "

Specifies that in Colombia there are about 38 thousand companies and the bulk are small companies, in Mexico has about 1 million companies "if Venezuela had the industrial density that Mexico should have 260 thousand companies".

The President of Conindustria, said that about 71% of companies could not survive in the next 2 years if the economic situation does not improve in the coming months, "to the extent that the environment is impoverishment, contraction of the economy, of controls, of decapitalization the situation will not improve, on the contrary, the crisis will deepen, "said Olalquiaga on Fedecamaras radio today.

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