September
3, 2003
NA passes Additional Credits
for Bs. 320 billion
(Multipuerta.com,
reprinted by Conapri Newsletter) - The National
Assembly (NA) standing committee approved additional
credits for Bs. 320 billion. Finance Committee
chairman Rodrigo Cabezas said that the approval
of these additional credits would generate new
jobs and begin economic reactivation. Cabezas
explained that these resources would be used to
pay the wages of university teachers and workers,
modernize the state television channel, improve
hospital infrastructure, and rehabilitate educational
facilities and infocenters, among others.