"Private sector has its place in this economy"

"In the next six years, which will be under the government of President (Hugo) Chávez, we will have growth which will enable Venezuela to leap up to independence, socialism and superpower of the great homeland dreamed by (Liberator Simón) Bolívar and (Cuban hero José) Martí," said Minister of Planning and Finance Jorge Giordani.

The minister added that government policies have focused on the domestic economic growth and all that leads to the estimates for the second half of 2012, AVN quoted.

"The private sector has a place in this economy. This sector has a place to produce, not to speculate; it is even contemplated in the Constitution. What cannot be permitted is monopoly and speculation," he vouched.

Giordani recounted the objectives set in the government plan for 2013-2019, submitted to the National Electoral Council (CNE) by President Chávez: consolidating independence; continue building of Bolivarian socialism; turning Venezuela into a superpower; stimulating and favoring a multi-center, pluri-polar world, and preserving life on planet Earth.