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Nicolás Maduro has once again surprised the world by asking for help from one of the great "enemies" of the Bolivarian revolution. "The president has formally asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a financing of 5 billion dollars to strengthen the response capacities of our health system in the containment of Covid-19. Another timely action to protect the people," he reported. this Tuesday the chancellor Jorge Arreaza .

In the letter sent by the head of the revolution to Kristalina Georgiana , director general of the IMF, Bolivarian reasons are described to go to the "honorable body" and request the money from the emergency fund of the Rapid Financing Instrument, "resources that will contribute significantly to strengthen our detection and response systems "to the global epidemic.

"At this crucial moment, and aware of the aggressiveness and high level of contagion of this disease, we will continue to take swift and vigorous measures to stop its spread," said the "president people." The great paradox is that for two decades, both Hugo Chávez and Maduro himself pointed to the IMF as one of the great enemies of the revolution.

Without going any further, at the end of last year, during the protests in Ecuador, Chile and Colombia, Maduro boasted of being focused on the economic recovery of his country, "on building a real productive economy, not a paper economy , not an IMF dependent economy. No, in Latin America the neoliberal IMF model has failed. "

Maduro's request starts with several obstacles ahead. The first is noted by the internationalist Mariano de Alba , based in Washington: in 2018 the IMF issued a censorship statement against Venezuela for not complying with its obligation to provide economic information. Furthermore, "in order for a country to request rapid assistance, it is required that it cooperate with the IMF to make efforts to resolve its balance of payments difficulties and describe the general economic policies it proposes to follow," adds De Alba.

"I don't see it as possible," says exiled deputy José Guerra, economy minister of the shadow opposition. "The IMF does not recognize either Maduro or Juan Guaidó (president in charge). For any indebtedness, the IMF is going to require the approval of the legitimate National Assembly, which is recognized by the IMF. The rest is a story," the parliamentarian describes. to THE WORLD.

Venezuela is living today a "radical and collective social quarantine, a necessary drastic measure" , decreed yesterday by Maduro, who claims to have Cuban counseling recently arrived from the island and with the support of China, who will send kits to combat the pandemic. treatment, which the country lacks today.

The Bolivarian government revealed that there are 33 positive cases of coronavirus , 28 "imported" from Europe and five from the Colombian border. In previous speeches, the "president people" accused the United States of having created Covid-19 to attack China and the peoples of the world.

"I call on the heads of state of the world to wake up and take drastic measures in time," said Maduro, who was excluded from the virtual meeting held between leaders and foreign ministers of the region. "We are facing the most serious situation we have ever faced before," emphasized the president, forgetting that what was the richest country in Latin America until the arrival of Chavismo bid today to survive crushed by reality, in the seventh year of a economic recession that has already devoured two thirds of its Gross Domestic Product.

The same years that Maduro has been at the head of the Government, ready to break all possible records: the worst contraction in contemporary history, the greatest hyperinflation of the century (28 months in a row), the worst crisis for a country without war, the most violent planet and the most collapsed public services amid the largest known diaspora, which this year will exceed the starring Syrians.

Among the main victims of Maduro's administration are hospitals, pulverized during seven years of administration, which have become a symbol of the Venezuelan tragedy. The penultimate evidence was given yesterday in San Cristóbal, one of the most important cities in the oil country: the medical personnel of the Central Hospital denounced that there are not enough beds, no masks, no alcohol, no gloves, no drinking water . And all this when in that regional capital no case of coronavirus has yet been recognized.

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