VIP businessmen attack Venezuela for favoring Podemos

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The Maduro Government has allowed the leaders of Pablo Iglesias' party to repatriate money while Telefónica, Iberia and BBVA have retained 750 million there 500 companies have emigrated from Catalonia to Madrid during the year of the independence referendum The Catalan business community has had enough of mediating between Rajoy and Artur Mas Spanish companies in Venezuela accuse the Government of encouraging Maduro's expropriations We can 'click' on his first meeting with businessmen Mariano Rajoy walks through with big businessmen. Mariano Rajoy walks through Moncloa with big businessmen. Big businessmen also have their opinion on the controversy over the income of Podemos members in Venezuela. There is one aspect that burns them: while the Maduro regime does not pose problems in the repatriation of their money to Spain to these leaders, several multinationals keep their profits retained there.

As Digital has gathered from high-level business sources, executives from some of the main Spanish companies with interests in Venezuela, such as , Telefónica, Iberia and BBVA, cannot help but be astonished . Most of them belong to the Business Council for Competitiveness. But no one has dared, so far, to denounce it publicly. Directors Netherlands WhatsApp Number of these companies privately admit to ECD that they are perplexed by the enormous difficulties they encounter in obtaining approval from Cencoex, the government agency that decides which companies or individuals can withdraw money from Venezuela and in what amounts. Podemos does not have so many obstacles They denounce that this situation radically contrasts with the “bare obstacles that Podemos members seem to have to face to repatriate their income.” It is their conclusion, at least, after the information that is being published these days in Venezuelan media and is also replicated in Spain. “Spanish companies are making a lot of money in Venezuela. “They are investing there and they are doing very well.” This is how the number three of Podemos, Juan Carlos Monedero , expressed himself in an interview given to the newspaper ABC at the end of .



These statements have been recovered now, amid Maduro's threats of expropriation of Spanish companies in the country, and they have not gone unnoticed among the business class either . They have contributed to further revolting many of these senior executives. 750 million withheld from companies The profit retained by most Spanish companies in Venezuela currently exceeds 750 million. They explain that what is true is that, for example, Telefónica saw its net profit reduced by 399 million in due to the devaluation of the bolivar in Venezuela, which had a negative impact on its financial assets of million euros. For its part, BBVA earned million euros there last year, which represents a reduction of 55.9%. Meanwhile, Iberia has proposed shelving its situation in Venezuela and is studying provisioning 184 million that the Spanish airline has withheld from sales in the Latin American country. But IAG has considered this money lost for several months. e The devaluation of the bolivar has a negligible impact on accounts because the vast majority of its income in Venezuela is recorded in dollars.