Detroit came to have a population of more than two million inhabitants, currently it does not exceed 700 thousand. What happened there?
If we compare Ciudad Guayana with Detroit, which was the largest vehicle producer in the world, with Ciudad Guayana, the most important metalworking emporium in South America, it is as if they were twin sisters. Detroit is not the capital of Michigan, USA, but it is the most populous city, just like Ciudad Guayana in Bolívar state in Venezuela.
Detroit came to have a population of more than two million inhabitants, currently it does not exceed 700 thousand. What happened there? If we compare this with Ciudad Guayana, it will be something exactly the same if its employment potential is not returned, allowing it to return to the prosperity that we had until recently.
Ciudad Guayana, according to the National Census, does not exceed one million inhabitants, but due to the rates of water and electricity consumption it exceeds one million five hundred thousand inhabitants. Those who have been in front of government institutions do not thoroughly analyze reality in order to make appropriate decisions.
If we assume a series of factors that were vital elements between Ciudad Guayana and Detroit, their similarity is somewhat surprising. Very high incomes compared to other parts of the national territory and extremely demanding unions. In Detroit, the hour of work reached five dollars, while in the rest of the United States, it did not reach half. Here in Guyana with a different remuneration system, the workers, in addition to high incomes, had a number of contractual benefits that were completely superior to the rest of Venezuela.
The big difference is racism, in Detroit discrimination against blacks continues today, although it seems untrue. The placement of bus stops has been extremely difficult due to the fight to not be placed and the service is not provided to blacks, it is absurd, but that cannot be hidden, nor can it be denied, it exists. Here in Guyana, as in all of Venezuela, we are all equal and we respect each other according to behavior and not skin color.
The Detroit debacle began with the increase in the price of oil due to the closure of the Suez Canal, which forced to build high-performance engines for fuel consumption and the factories were aging industrial emporiums and production costs did not allow competition with other parts of the world, including Mexico and China.
Of the two hundred thousand jobs in the automotive industry, today they do not exceed twenty thousand. Some believe that it will return to prosperity little by little, but thousands of buildings are unoccupied and there are no comparators despite the almost gifted prices they have.
In Ciudad Guayana additional factors intervene for the collapse of the gigantic basic companies and the thousands of companies that depended on them directly and indirectly.
The drought of the Caroní river due to the phenomenon of EL NIÑO, prevented the large dams from reaching sufficient water and it was necessary to dose the outlets to the turbines that normally require about four thousand cubic meters per second to less than half, since the Caroní contributed almost nothing, when it normally exceeds demand and it is necessary to open the floodgates so that it does not exceed the level of 72 meters of the immense artificial lagoons.
It is now calculated that about 13 thousand cubic meters per second can enter the Nekuima channel due to the rains. If we add to this that the country’s thermoelectric system did not respond because its maintenance had been neglected, so as not to ration in large proportions, they assumed to use the three thousand megawatts of the basic companies and there the collapse began.
Apart from the government reacquisition of SIDOR and the total liquidation of VENALUM and ALCASA cell lines. Total madness and to this was added the so-called Workers Control, something unusual but they did not care at all. Politics first than Venezuela. Total disgrace.
Guyana could become something similar to Detroit, we are on the brink of the abyss and we survive by the fictitious jobs that are paid to thousands of workers with first-line technical capacity, but who lack the instruments to develop their potential and many have already left. to other destinations in the universe.
At present it is impossible to recover Ciudad Guayana and the entire region, but a commission of people prepared, very prepared, appeared to rebuild what was this great part of Venezuela, led by an executive recognized by the entire world as qualified to undertake recovery and is none other than the former president of VENALUM when it produced 420 thousand tons of aluminum per year and was a kind of gold mine, the engineer Enrique Castells. Executives of this profile do not abound and hopefully the time will soon come to revive these great companies.
Good luck!
@dabega26
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