{"id":2516,"date":"2018-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armando.info\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2018-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T00:00:00","slug":"business-of-clap-boxes-enriches-intermediaries-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armando.info\/en\/business-of-clap-boxes-enriches-intermediaries-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Business of CLAP Boxes Enriches Intermediaries in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Blessed \r\nthe day on which the Local Supply and Production Committees, the CLAPs, were \r\nborn,\" President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro affirmed as he walked among small crops at the \r\nFabricio Ojeda Endogenous Nucleus, a sort of artisanal sowing yard, west of \r\nCaracas, on last March 12 during the celebration of the second anniversary of \r\nthe state plan. \"We have to learn to produce. Venezuela must be a school, a \r\nproductive field,\" the president harangued.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

His \r\nwords are contradictory, because if something stands out in the millions of CLAP \r\nboxes distributed in recent months is not the strength of Venezuelan production \r\nbut the assortment of imported products unknown in the Venezuelan market, \r\nsometimes of dubious quality, which have fattened the accounts of at least a \r\ndozen intermediaries - many of them registered in tax havens - to import food \r\nmostly from Mexico, but also from Uruguay, Chile, Brazil and \r\nPanama.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

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The \r\nbusiness routes behind the CLAPs seem endless and reach the old continent, \r\nspecifically Sabadell, 30 kilometers from Barcelona, Spain, where there is a \r\ncompany earning millions of dollars with the program created by Nicol\u00e1s Maduro \r\ntwo years ago to face what he calls an \"economic war\" and to meet the needs of a \r\npopulation hit by inflation and shortages.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

MIR \r\nImportaci\u00f3 i Exportaci\u00f3 SL, a company that, like other companies favored by the \r\nGovernment, has a rather ghostly presence, is registered in Sabadell. It barely \r\nexists in the registry and on the web, but the Venezuelan Foreign Trade \r\nCorporation (Corpovex) \u2014the state holding company that centralizes public \r\nimports\u2014 granted it contracts for the supply of two million CLAP \r\nboxes.<\/p>\n\n\n

The business routes behind the CLAPs seem endless and reach the old continent<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n

Documents \r\nreveal that the Catalan company billed at a price of 34.87 dollars per unit, \r\nwhich is 34 million 870 thousand dollars for each million of food sent to \r\nVenezuela. This was the amount of the first contract signed by MIR Importaci\u00f3 i \r\nExportaci\u00f3 with Corpovex under the identification
CPVX-CJ-CONT-0034-2017. \r\nSources familiar with the business add that the fulfillment of that contract was \r\ntied to a second contract for the supply of another million CLAP boxes, \r\nsubscribed under number CPVX-CJ-CONT-0067-2017. <\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

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