Milagros Socorro Imagine a country without private enterprise. These are the keys: it is shortage of consumer goods, including staples; services, when they work, they do very badly, these countries are often characterized by frequent blackouts and cities plunged into darkness as night falls, naturally, the state is the only employer, so it imposes wages and incentives, and mechanisms of entry, promotion and dismissal, for To make matters worse, the heads do not reach that position on its merits but because of his speed to throw the language lends itself to the boot paid correctly. Without exception, is a country where poverty prevails and its corollary, the thousand forms of moonlighting humanly imaginable, with the black market and prostitution to the head.
A country without private enterprise is a country like Cuba. Poor, accustomed to begging, full of scoundrels habilis to pilfer food or any trifle.
A look at this picture can help Venezuelans value the private company, traditionally favored by our recognition. It is as if the venture that brings jobs, wealth and nobility had no the fray of war or the attractiveness of political power.
We needed a decade of persecution against the private sector to appreciate the true value of the role it plays in society. Each company closure involves the elimination of jobs directly and indirectly, the impoverishment of many families and appalling that mark the current regime is printed on the skin of Venezuela: the mass migration of disenfranchised youth of his country that denies them opportunities to time it shows the ice fang violence and insecurity.
In recent years, many employers have given up. Others have made a pact with the devil we know who pays how well it serves. Some have marañitas done under the table. There are those who have traveled in ten years the way that others took several generations. But there have been an entrepreneurial class that has remained at home against fierce winds, providing jobs, investing in this land, offering goods and services in this group include media companies that have honed an independent voice in front of a absolute power, corrupt and corrupting.
In this group of organizations that have demonstrated their nationalism daily events and stresses its roots Venezuela Empresas Polar, which this week turned 70. Of the many things that can be said of this family business, as descriptive of their nature is the fact that no worker in this country would not accept a job offer Polar whether there will perform in the field. That's why when its president, Lorenzo Mendoza, is a ministry, from the doorman to the secretarial staff of the office he snuggles up to ask, in a tone of confidence, a job for the son, daughter, nephew, husband ... No employer has the respect, encouragement, constant training, wages (indexed for inflation), the work environment, support for house purchase and retirement plan Empresas Polar, whose staff spends 31 thousand workers and that, at least every two years, have the opportunity to direct contact with Mendoza and raise their views and demands.
After in Venezuela fell a shower of silver did not alter the map of poverty, we know that the only way not to be poor is to have a good job. And in this private enterprise is essential. Empresas Polar has been. In the spirit Venezuelans have expressed their continued investment, unstoppable even in years of villainy, in the acquisition of companies like Mavesa, which has been taken over by a corporation and, instead, remains Venezuela with labor and Venezuelan products.
And, most importantly, when everything has seemed to be diluted in the trash in the trash and as despicable, Empresas Polar has persisted in the mandate of its founders, has continued to the last corner of the territory quality products at affordable prices. When others have matched in a low, Empresas Polar has twinned with good things, hand made by Venezuela.
There are times when excellence is a form of resistance. The country should see this in its proper context.
