The First Economic Cabinet of 2025 was held in Venezuela where new policies were evaluated based on economic strengthening with emphasis on the defense of workers' purchasing power. teleSUR
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00:00And the first Economic Cabinet of 2025 was held in Venezuela, where new policies were
00:04evaluated based on economic strengthening, with emphasis on the defense of workers'
00:09purchasing power.
00:10The meeting was headed by the nation's Executive Vice President, López RodrÃguez, who informed
00:15that according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the economy
00:20grew 6.2 percent and not 4.2 percent as initially projected.
00:26RodrÃguez highlighted the strengthening of production and the increase in consumption
00:30in Venezuelan households and affirmed that the defense of the purchasing power of workers
00:35will be the central issue of the Venezuelan government's agenda through 2025.
00:47The year 2025 will be to defend the purchasing power of workers above all difficulties and
00:52to maintain the extraordinary mechanism, one of a kind, of indexation of workers' income,
00:58so that its purchasing power does not lose value.