Communism pushing its tentacles across Venezuela.

 

 

December 2 marked the 10th anniversary of that Monday back in 2002 when Venezuela kicked off the so-called National Civic Stoppage, whose protagonists were all the national committed to the democratic system and citizen freedoms established by the National Constitution.

Back then million of Venezuelans expressed in a radical manner their discontent about a flurry of economic and oil industry policies that were giving indications the country was heading to a totalitarianism despite still pinning their hopes on a project conceived by late President hugo chavez, who sold himself to the people as an advocate for inclusion and social justice, of bussiness owners, trade unions, students and visionary sectors of the population.

Among many other things, chavez had already decreed 49 laws via his first Enabling Law passed by the Venezuelan Legislation incluiding the outdated Hydrocarbons Law, Fishing Law and the Land and Agricultural  Development Law, with which was given the nod to perform the confiscations of millions of fertile lands and agricultural properties across the nation. On top of that, it was foreseen the Government wanted to give PDVSA, the state-run oil company, a different political use.

Unfortunately, the national stoppage did not achieve the projected goals as the project of chavez, thought up in cuba, followed its course progressively and steadily until today, when his sucessor is starting to kill what is left of democracy by curtailing rights and civil, economic and political freedoms.

That is the way how nicolas maduro, thanks to a recently passed Enabling Law in his hands and with the aim of starting an economy of war in the country, is strinking a bewildering blow the national commercial sector.

After weeks of militarized inspections, looting acts led by groups from the Government took place; also an imposition of ''fair prices'' on just about any product or services without talking into consideration the real costs; ''temporary'' takeovers of the administration of retail chains as published in the Official Gazette of November 29; and the ''temporary system of protection for lessees'', something maduro had already announced.

With the inmediate entry into force of this temporary  system, the Government will start regulating the rental rates of any kind of commercial establishment.

This decrees is foresen by many to become a Decree-Law of rentals for the commercial sector set to be passed in two weeks from now.

Regularization.
Among many other new impositions, new rental rates of Bs.250 (US$40) per square meter were set for all commercial establishments subject to the control system, without taking into consideration the historic standards for the setting of prices such as construction costs, the conditions of the establishment, its geographical location and the nature of the establishments' trade.

Also, the history of the Law for Regularization and Control of Home Rentals, and its regulations, passed in November of 2012, repeats itself, something that has led the supply for rental homes to its extinction.

This is just another law tailormade for an obsolete failed communist system which, by the force impositions, controls and unilateral price-fixing and also disregarding the current market rules, is dooming the productive sectors of the country, destroying all kinds of employment sources and leading the population to more proverty.