They discuss the Ordinance for Popular Economy in the streets of Caracas

Published at: 18/07/2024 08:26 PM

Contributing to the effort for the organization of public spaces, by the National Executive in the person of President Nicolás Maduro and the mayor of Caracas, Carmen Meléndez; officials of the Mayor's Office of Caracas, together with representatives of street merchants from the 22 parishes of the capital city, held the Day of construction and updating of the Ordinance to regulate the exercise of the Popular Street Economy, at the Liceo Andrés Bello, in the Candelaria parish of Caracas .

“We are faced with the possibility of continuing to re-emerge a more beautiful city designed for the development of all those who live in it, we can see economic prosperity in each of those who have undertaken in various fields, but we must do so with order and harmony with the city,” said Jorge Cordero, director of Urban Control of Popular Street Economy at the Caracas mayor's office.

Milagro Domínguez and Quenyer Bolívar, were the inspectors responsible for presenting in table 5, the characteristics of this project, which define the permitted activities, fees, sanctions, fines and places for the exercise of street commercial activities.

These professionals from the Popular Economy and Urban Control coordination of the Mayor's Office of Caraca presented, through a methodological instrument, the importance of updating the ordinance in its dual purpose of improving the lives of the inhabitants of the city while complying with public policies at the local level.

Among the proposals are: a pension fund for the popular street economy, paying monthly taxes for the amount proposed in the Law for Popular Economy, social security for the Popular Economy, for the mayor's office to liaise with public and private banks for loans and that permits are annual.

Yanet Buitriago, representative of the vendors of cold cakes in the Caricuao parish, presented the proposal for an instrument of law that protects her sector based on the rights recognized in Revolution. “President Chávez freed us from the bureaucracy and the many abuses they committed against informal vendors, officials and police,” he said.

He stressed that this day is important to present his proposals and listen to other proposals so that the People are the real protagonists of what is being decided in these instances.

“Comuna, Community Council, is the organized people and we thank President Nicolás Maduro for promoting and protecting members of the popular street economy and we guarantee that next July 28 we will come out to guarantee electoral victories,” he stressed.

Nataly Lezama, head of UBCH at El Recreo, highlighted the importance for the 22 parishes of sectoral tables where all sectors of the popular economy are involved.

“We are with colleagues in permitted and unauthorized fields, all of us generating responses that allow us to update the municipal ordinance that regulates economic activity, so we request a law that protects men and women who earn their family support through their profession, taking into account that the pandemic and the blockade created problems for everyone, but out of this crisis, the projects that now generate 70% of the country's contracted labor force appeared,” he said.

Regarding the July 28 elections in which the Venezuelan people will choose their president, Lezama called on representatives of the Popular Street Economy to promote the choice of those who have promoted the development of these personal and family ventures.

Mazo News Team