The country is rewarding sacrifice, effort and loyalty. How have we done it? In union, only this way we are better, wrote the head of state in his Twitter account.

He recalled that there are 927 criminal sanctions imposed by the United States on the Bolivarian republic, and “today we are being reborn in a new era.”

In a recent interview with Spanish-French journalist Ignacio Ramonet, broadcasted on social media, the ruler pointed out that the most difficult period was when “this whole package of criminal sanctions” were activated against the entire Venezuelan society, the economy, the productive chain and the oil industry.

He recalled that then came those difficult years, in which the oil industry was persecuted, and Venezuela stopped receiving 232 billion dollars, with an economic damage to the Gross Domestic Product of over 630 billion dollars.

These are gigantic figures, for a country to go from receiving 56 billion dollars to receiving 700 million dollars in one year, “it is a catastrophe,” he underlined.

Maduro stated that, thanks to the social policy of the revolution and the social missions, they were able to withstand the devastating impact of the sanctions, the persecution and this economic war.

The President affirmed that a set of successful public policies, agreed upon with all the economic, social and political sectors of the country through debate and talks laid the foundations for this recovery.

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