During this day ten guilds and associations representing the sector of entrepreneurs and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs, delivered a letter to the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, requesting an urgent meeting to analyze the current situation they are going through.
The letter represents a total of 850,000 ventures of all kinds.
In the letter they express that they want to collaborate with the new Government and that it is necessary to share with the President “the reality, desires and concerns of our represented, many of whom have a sense of urgency.”
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In addition, they express that “we are sure that with their help and a joint work with the unions represented here we will be able to overcome the scourge of unemployment and travel along a productive path and economic recovery that allows a relief to the thousands of MSME workers and their families, who drag serious difficulties since the pandemic”.
Guild Unit
The text sent states that “this great unit of Guilds has no other commitments or political design than the well-being of our associates, their Government and Chile.”
They also indicate that their current situation is critical because they drag since the pandemic economic problems to which are added the rise in the interest rate, generating in the middle the increase in access to capital, credits and credit lines.
Among the signatories of the letter are: the presidents of the Association of Entrepreneurs of Chile, Marcos Rivas; the Association of Gyms of Chile, Marcela Díaz; the National Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism of Chile, Ricardo Mewes; the National Confederation of Truck Owners, Juan Araya; the Federation of Tourism Companies of Chile, Ricardo Margulis; of the National Federation of Kindergartens and Cradle Rooms, Ana Ramírez; the Institute of Small Business and Social Economy, Luis Solís; of the National Union of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Gianina Figueroa; the vice president of the National Guild Confederation of Free, Persian and Related Fair Organizations of Chile, Paola Morales, and the manager of the Association of Producers, Entertainment and Culture, Jorge Ramírez Arrayas.
Fantuzzi Reviews
The president of the guild of exporters of manufactures and services, Asexma, Roberto Fantuzzi, criticized the Government through a video shared on Twitter, noting that “AGAIN WE ARE OUT: I have the feeling that they leave us at the ‘skin table’. They leave us out of the Argentina trip, where everyone knows the strength of Gremios PYME. But, it seems that we are outside the Development Agenda. We are not economic beggars, we are part of the solution.”
In addition, he added that “Mr. President, do not turn your back on us, the commitment was that on March 12 we were going to meet at a table with SMEs. I know that circumstances sometimes do not exist, but still, after almost three weeks we have not been able to do it and we have had some meetings with ministers, in isolation.”
“This is not how it operates, SMEs must be within a program and not be begging and the last Knockout that gave us, no SME goes to Argentina, which is its characteristic, just as the Italians are full of SMEs, those who should be on the plane, are precisely the guilds of SMEs, do not turn your back on us, “he closed.
AGAIN WE ARE OUT: I have the feeling that they leave us at the “skin table”. They leave us out of the Argentina trip, where everyone knows the strength of SME Guilds.
But, it seems that we are outside the Development Agenda.
We are not economic beggars we are part of the solution pic.twitter.com/BHWAGD9LJz
— Roberto Fantuzzi (@rfantuzzih) April 1, 2022
