The speaker of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly said Wednesday the legislature cannot pay lawmakers or employees because the government has failed to allocate its budget.
Leading opposition figure Henry Ramos Allup told journalists the legislature has run out of money, the latest victim of the crisis gripping the recession-racked country.
“There’s no money to pay salaries this month… because the government isn’t sending us the funds,” he said.
“Lawmakers and employees should know that if we can’t issue their paychecks, they should go to the finance ministry and the presidential palace to collect their salaries,” he added sarcastically.
The color RED is losing its power
FYI. The people that control the legislature are in fact the government. so if they say the government didn’t give them money they lying. Its suspicious all this crisis started not long after the opposition to the Maduro government won the majority of seats and he dismissed his cabinet. At this time the opposition has complete rule the president is just a figurehead. Yet they still blaming the President for their lack of ability to run a government and country that large.
this sounds like something Lennox Linton have done to Dominica if he won the election the country would have collapse because of their lack of experience and they would still blame Skerro.
Bruh the crisis started way back when chvez started dieing from cancer. its only now getting to the tipping point where no amount of political gymnastics can hide it anymore. the whole reason so many ppl voted against the PSUV is because of the crisis
UDOHREADYET get your facts before you come here an slam LL
“There’s no money to pay salaries this month… because the government isn’t sending us the funds,” he said.”
Well, if there is no money, not even in reserve, where is it going to come from! Bankruptcy in any language means bankruptcy! So, Venezuela and Dominica are on the same level at the moment.
Political rhetoric and communism mentality does not make a country wealthy!
Creating ALBA to which Skerrit forced Dominica into simply to challenge the United States, and the larger democracies of the world with useless incendiary rubbish talk pays no bills. Communism has not worked in the China, Russia, and the former Soviet Block, nor in Cuba, so it will not work for Venezuela, and it dependency allied Skerrit and Dominica!
Now that Venezuela is bankrupt perhaps Skerrit’s Petro Carib will pay Venezuela the money owed for petroleum products. Trouble is more than thirty million dollars was used to buy votes last election!
They didn’t say the government does not have the money… they said the government did not give them money nor did they allocate it int eh budget. That’s false because a new government means a new budget and if they the opposition control the government then they in fact didn’t create a budget. Ye they blame the government ironically they are the government.
meaning there is no money….no money…oil revenue abused….Alba
Capitalism doesn’t work either, so what’s your point? In the United States, we have situations where the Government can not pay its OWN bills, and state workers don’t get paid. What about the statistic that shows us that 1% owns most of the world’s wealth and the majority only owns under 10%. The problem is not communism, or socialism, because those were alternative to Capitalism! The most conspicuous problem is the presence of capital-the base word for Capitalism.
The presence of money ruins our lives-even those in Government can not escape its wrath!
All of the money has gone into the Chavista bank accounts. What remains is being used to prevent the country defaulting on its debt.
Socialism! The same policies have been employed in Dominica over the years. But the difference is Dominica is small and remittances and monies sent from e.g the E.U, the World bank et al makes a lot of difference to you small economy. The statistics show that the gov’t has failed in its management of the country another political party may not have fared better. But Dominica is strange country full of emotional people and politicians thrive on that. I always hope for the best for our country. Shalom
If it’s that bad in Venezuela why is Venezuela giving Dominica so much aid?
Because Venezuela’s foreign aid programs were started before socialism had finished demolishing their economy.
is? when last you heard anything about aid from venezuela? and which aid nuh? find out how much we owe them now. Tell Maduro to fedex you a personal copy of the bill. Allu were sol….. lock stock and barrel. Allu doesn’t listen or pay attention. Is rum and sewo. Sot.