After violent protests and looting, the president Nicolas Maduro extended the Saturday circulation of the banknote of 100 bolivars until January 2, 2017 because of alleged sabotage to prevent it from going to Venezuela the cash with the new designations that supersede.
`I have decided to extend the validity of the ticket of 100 bolivares… to the market, in establishments and the legal activity within the territory of venezuela,” said Maduro from the Miraflores Palace in a televised address.
The circulation of the new paper currency, which includes the launch of the denomination of 500 bolivars, you will have to wait, according to said Mature.
Precisely in support of the measures of the government, hundreds of venezuelans and members of the government marched Saturday through the streets of Caracas. Dressed in red shirts, the protesters blamed the crisis in the country to the right wing and the `economic war” which according to them has been promoted.
According to the representative, the decision was taken after the three planes that were to transport the cash to Venezuela were `victims of a sabotage.” Maduro did not give details of the alleged prejudice, but pointed out that the `new logistics” transport will ensure that the tickets arrive at the amount that was expected.
Between Tuesday and Thursday, the venezuelan banking conducted an exchange, and a massive banknote 100 bolivares by those of lesser denomination as part of the process of disposal of this cash to avoid that the `mafias” what acapararan, said the government.
This measure, which resulted in the lack of cash, created the eve and in the early hours of Saturday, the violent protests and looting in various cities, including Maracaibo in the Zulia state, which led to the militarization of the streets and the arrest of dozens of people.
Inhabitants as Lucrecia Morales demanded solutions to the government.
`Our children are going hungry… we are parents of a family with the sweat of our brow we earn the money,” he told The Associated Press. `And do you come to us to say that serves no purpose? We need a solution”.
In the same message, Maduro also extended until January 2, the closure of the borders of venezuela with Colombia and Brazil, which remained temporarily closed from the 12th of December as a way of countering the smuggling. Only the pedestrian crossing to visit relatives and will be open at the areas bordering the two countries, said the president.
Despite this closure, dozens of venezuelans toppled the Saturday, the barricades installed on the bridge Francisco de Paula Santander _ubicado between the cities of Ureña, Venezuela, and Cúcuta, Colombia_ in order to search for food on the other side of the border.
Maduro lamented `the violent actions” that were recorded the day before, and which left dozens of detainees. Particularly complained of the facts in some of the bordering areas with Colombia, including the burning of the headquarters of a state Bank of Venezuela at the border village of Guasdualito, about 830 kilometers southwest of Caracas.
The representative said that, thanks to pictures and videos, were identified the persons that they executed that `action destructive and criminal.” Assured that the facts are linked to members of the opposition Table of Democratic Unity.
Source: AP
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