by the El Reportero’s wire services
MANAGUA – With sales of almost 438 million USD, Venezuela concluded 2012 as the second most important destination for Nicaraguan goods, reported on Monday in Managua the Center for Exports (Cetrex).
Through electronic report, the entity specified that from January 1 to December 30, the South American country obtained a wide range of products, including beef, green coffee, oils and fats, sugar cane, milk, cattle and beans.
The total amounts to 437.69 million dollars and also includes chemicals mixture, dairy products, machinery and equipment, noted the group, quantifying customs exports, excluding trade zones through duty-free zone.
According Cetrex, total revenues totalized two 2,748 million dollars, so sales to the Venezuelan market are equivalent to 15.93 percent, preceded only by the United States, whose participation represented 27.98 percent.
Estimates of the Executive and the National Assembly (unicameral parliament) show that trade with Venezuela will continue to increase, with the advantage of using the Regional Clearance Unitary System (SUCRE).
Created by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), the Sucre works as a virtual currency for reciprocal trade transactions with other members State of the bloc.
The national cattle industry is one of the most benefit from these transactions, in fact Venezuela, one of the founders of the ALBA, is the main buyer of the Nicaraguan beef.
According to Cetrex, the income for this concept reached to more than 198 million dollars.
Paraguayan government’s plan to trade land for votes rejected
ASUNCION – The main peasant organizations in Paraguay indignantly rejected today a government plan proposing giving land to peasants in return for political support in the elections next April.
We will never negotiate landless peasants’ rights in exchange for support to a government that, in addition, is illegitimate, raised the National Peasant Federation, the Coordinating Board of Peasant Organizations and the Organization of Struggle for the Land, at the end of a joint assembly.
Media recently reported details of meetings of Congress members and officials in the Authentic Radical Liberal Party, to which President Federico Franco belongs, in which they agreed the proposal made to groups of landless peasants.
The government would undertake, according to the project, to call for bids in February or March for the acquisition of land for subsequent delivery to certain groups of peasants, in exchange for supporting Liberal candidates in the upcoming elections.
Through this offer made to some of the peasant leaders, the plan also aims to neutralize land occupations by those who live with their families in tents, who would have to vote for Franco’s party.
Peasantry historical organizations said the state has an obligation to assist the poorest, according to the Constitution, and those who accept conditions for that stray from the historical principles of Paraguayan peasant movement.
A downward trend in homicides in El Salvador
Homicides continue their downward trend in El Salvador and 2012 closed with 2,571 murders, a 41-percent fall against 2011, the National Civil Police reported today.
This is the second lowest figure registered in the past ten years, only outnumbered in 2003, when there were 2,195 murders, according to police.
(Prensa Latina contributed to this news report).
