Caracas, July 4, 2023 (Press Mincomunas) – Based on the positive balance obtained from the nine Communal Economic Circuits (CEC) created a year ago in coffee, corn, cocoa, vegetables, potato, animal breeding, wood sawing, and textiles, the People’s Power Minister for Communes and Social Movements, Jorge Arreaza, announced that they would enter a new boosting phase for the communal economy in which they plan to create 26 new CECs throughout the country.
Through a telematic connection with involved actors, the head of the communal office indicated that the new circuits proposed in the territory by the institutional teams and the People’s Power in the balance assemblies of the nine CECs created, which arose from an “essential policy that allows generating real grafts in the territory.”
In his presentation, Arreaza insisted on the need, instructed by Commander Hugo Chavez at the time and reiterated by President Nicolas Maduro, to generate those codes that enable the protection of communal production, from its initial element to its commercialization or its location in school canteens, in the case of food or uniforms, or any other good, that is to say, “to avoid that capitalism penetrates the circuit, opens it, makes a crack and ends up destroying it.”
He emphasized that in the balance meetings, the producer families have agreed, in a very emphatic way, that the creation of the CECs has been worthwhile because they are freeing themselves, as far as possible at first, from the chains that tie them to the empire of capital.
The Minister pointed out that President Maduro also seeks that these organizational and productive structures of the People’s Power advance towards achieving self-government to make economic activity and social development self-sustainable, which is why we accompanied them. He considered the exchange of experiences between the circuits already formed and those that will operate to be of the highest value.
Arreaza also raised the need to build indicators with scientific rigor to systematize and measure progress in the CECs.
The Vice Minister for Communal Economy, Hernan Vargas, recalled that last year they initiated a process to make viable a policy centered on the Communal Economic Circuits, in which several Communal Councils or Communes would promote three fundamental elements in a territory: first, communal aggregation for the economic fact, that is, to collectivize production and consumption; second, to build productive chains and based on that, to build an alternative redistribution model.
Among the advances of the CECs, he mentioned a higher level of assembly and community articulation than a year ago, the creation of the “Hecho de Comuna” brand by President Nicolas Maduro, and the communal baskets.
Regarding the activation phase of 26 new circuits, Vargas said it would start with a first working day to share the methodology or “step by step” built from the practice of the first CECs.
He specified that the route for the construction of the new circuits follows the following order: to know the communal economic policy, initial characterization of the CEC, commune assemblies with producers, installation of the CEC Planning Committee, elaboration of the Circuit plan and activation of the funds, activation of the commune management and accountability.
