Caracas, April 8.- The president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguezannounced this Wednesday in a message to the country that next May 1 there will be a salary increasewithout specifying whether it is the minimum wage, frozen since March 2022, or an income that public workers receive consisting of two bonuses and which was increased last month.
“I announce that on May 1 we will make an increase and that increase will be responsible,” said the Chavista leader in a message to the nation that lasted almost half an hour and was broadcast on the state channel. Venezuelan Television (VTV) failed briefly due to a power outage.
Rodríguez confirmed that last March an income made up of two bonuses that public workers receive in bolivars at the official rate of the day and that has no impact on labor benefits, was increased from 160 to 190 dollars, after a sale of fuel oil, a fuel derived from oilin the midst of the oil opening and the rapprochements with USA.
The president, who took office after the capture of Nicolas Maduro last January in Caracas by US forces, assured that salaries are expected to improve “in the near future as Venezuela enjoys more resources.”
“Our immediate, medium and long-term objective is to steadily and gradually recover workers’ income through productive growth in both the hydrocarbon and mining areas, which generate immediate income,” he added.
Rodríguez also installed this Wednesday a commission for “labor dialogue” amid protests by workers demanding an increase in salaries and ordered the formation of another for the “strategic” evaluation of the country’s assets.
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In addition, he called for a pilgrimage against the sanctions that will tour the country from April 19 to May 1, when, he said, he will arrive in Caracas.
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