President Chávez : The revolution has to change Venezuelan economic system

ABN 24/04/2008
Caracas, Distrito Capital

Caracas, Apr. 24. ABN.- The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, reiterated that the commitment of the socialist revolution is to change the Venezuelan economic system to recover the lands and agriculture.

“We are obliged to change the Venezuelan economic system, because previous governments transformed Venezuela into an oil rentier country and they abandoned the agriculture, which is the most important economic activity because produces food to satisfy population's basic needs”, he said.

The statements were made by President Chávez during the launching of the Socialist Fund for Agricultural Development (FONDAS, Spanish acronym), carried out at the Socialist Productive Technical Center Florentino, in Barinas State (center-western Venezuela).

Moreover, he pointed out that people have to keep fighting in order to change the capitalistic model that Venezuela had.

in this regard, he emphasized: “We are in a revolutionary struggle to change the structure of the capitalistic mono-producer model that transformed Venezuela into a North American factory, which only produced oil and the other products were imported. That's why we are fighting to
recover our lands and agriculture”.

In addition, he noted that other objective is to transform Venezuela into a continental power. “We have to be united to form the motherland that we want to. We are going to conform a motherland of equals and the only way we can have that motherland is following the socialist path”.

Likewise, the President made a call “to all the land owners, if you have a piece of land, you have to sow it. There can not be a single hectare of arable land without being cultivated. We need to produce more food every
day”.

President Chávez said that the Bolivarian Revolution is recovering the economic potential of the country in order to transform Venezuela into a food exporter to help all world's nations.

“Soon, Venezuela will be a food exporter. Those who have the agricultural potential like us have to develop it in order to help those countries that do not have arable lands, of course, preserving an ecologic balance”, President Chávez concluded.

Translated by Ernesto Aguilera