Orimulsion vs. tower of terror
This week's television reported on a small incident in one of the Florida amusement park attractions (Tower of Terror) whose causes are being investigated. Some users apparently suffered minor injuries, however, we doubt that this will reduce the public attracted to this type of recreation.
Imagine the existence in Venezuela of some amusement park owners who, upset by the competition from Florida and with the aim of forming a support movement, recruit and seduce a group of mothers who all suffer from pathological anxiety. Imagine this aggressive and vociferous Opinion Group demanding that the authorities of the Federal District prohibit children from traveling to Florida parks.
The absurdity and smallness of the accident, the Florida protests, the children's protests, everything would make it impossible to think that the Prohibition Decree would be approved.
However, if we are allowed to assume that: a.- there are other parks as good as those in Florida, "Mommy, we can go to Disney in France!", b.- that the administrators of the Florida parks do not care. It matters a lot, "with fewer visitors we work more comfortably"; and c.- the support of the citizens of Florida is neither requested nor received, then suddenly the possibilities of the Decree do not seem so remote.
"Guys, even though I have family in Florida and it could cause harm to them, since no one cares about this, let's pass Prohibition, at least this way we can get these screaming crazy people off our backs."
In a somewhat similar way, the state of Florida banned the use of Orimulsion. The Orimulsión that has so much meaning for Venezuela. For a Venezuela that today needs any help it can receive. But, for a Venezuela where this, apparently he doesn't give a damn. For a Venezuela where we drink orange juice from Florida and read that simultaneously “currency transfers to Florida grew 400%.
This week a trade mission from Florida visits us in Caracas. Its purpose is to sell us products and investment opportunities. Neither a candidate or member of the government, nor a business or union organization, nor a director, executive or employee of PDVSA, nor a parliamentarian, nor a university student, no one, probably no one will use the occasion to at least indicate that we are harmed and upset. for the decision on Orimulsion.
We should all be ashamed. If in Venezuela we had to choose a popular saying that was known and applied by all our people, it would probably be "he who doesn't cry doesn't suck." Apparently we don't use it outside our borders.
For a long time I have maintained that one of the main problems that Venezuela has in correctly adapting fashionable economic policies, such as trade liberalization, is that the vast majority of our economic leaders, in the public and private sectors, are very recent converts. . Since originally they held other points of view and today they are terrified that someone will recognize them in their new clothes, they maintain and apply their dogmas with the fervor that we can occasionally detect in a nouveau riche, eager for recognition from the "establishment." or in a believer recently subjected to an inspiring call.
The truth is that globalization and trade openness do not diminish in any way the need to group around the concept of nation to meditate and negotiate the economic strategies convenient for the country. Quite the opposite. Before with closed borders, with tariffs and general import bans, this did not matter much. Today, with open borders, we really need intelligence, will and cunning to prevent the “world from eating us alive.”
I am not and have never been a protectionist. However, my pulse or intellectual conscience would not tremble if when negotiating on behalf of Venezuela I had to resort a little more to hypocrisy. To that hypocrisy that all countries apply with mastery but that Venezuela apparently considers in bad taste.
What would be difficult or almost impossible for me would be to negotiate on behalf of our country without being able, in a concrete way and as support, to refer to a will, a clamor and a true national demand. In other words without the support of a good and exportable collective cry. Let's globalize the plantain!
Talking about amusement parks reminded me of a full page I saw in a newspaper less than a week ago. It described a country that, unlike the red deficit suffered by Venezuela, was illuminated by a “blue; color of the surplus.” A country with resources to generate microenterprises (granted through “more expeditious channels than those of Corpoindustria”), a country with resources to take care of the environment, develop hospitals. A beautiful country where “it seeks to promote a new relationship with society” establishing in a splendid way
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