President Maduro arrived
in Caracas yesterday from his trip to China, Russia and several OPEC
countries and
declared that the opposition had attempted to sabotage his tour: “I knew
that the right would go crazy once I had announced the tour. The first thing
they tried to do was to sabotage the tour. [But] I had to do this tour, (…) the
oligarchic right was not going to sabotage it.”
Maduro also assured
that, in face of the economic war the government claims is being waged against
Venezuela, the country needs to make “an economic transition to a productive
socialism.” He therefore announced that he would be calling wholesale distributors
to the presidential palace of Miraflores to make them sign an “ultimatum” to
force them to stop hoarding basic products.
The web page Runrunes has published an
interesting graphic showing the number of times the “economic war” has been
mentioned.
According to Lisseth Boon from Runrunes the first
time the term was mentioned was by Chávez in June 2, 2010. At that time the
term referred to an economic war that would be waged against the bourgeoisie by the government. The term faded from use
during 2011 and 2012 but resurged from January 2013 on. Since then the “economic
war” has been mentioned 288.
The Runrunes graphic
is very good because it puts the times the “economic war” has been mentioned against
a timetable with the main economic data for the different periods. However it’s
very difficult to pinpoint what constitutes a “mention” of the term because, as
can be seen in previous posts of this blog, many government officials of very
diverse levels make declarations about different aspects of the “economic war”.
Also, public media, such as AVN and the government funded Telesur, mention
the term often.
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