Military Industry
Venezuela currently shows an industrial development in the defence, that sector still far from compared to countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Colombia or Mexico in the region, if it has meant a noticeable advance respect to the last decade of the 20th century Venezuelan. In the opinion of Francisco Arias Cardenas (ex - presidential candidate; ex - Deputy; and current candidate for the governorship of Zulia State, by the ruling party PSUV): "in the 13 years of management of the current Government, has been to force armed, having the autonomy that lacked in the Fourth Republic, when transnational corporations controlled the military sector of the country (...)" "This advance of the Venezuelan military industry gives us a range of greater encouragement, that is what we need, and the possibility of applying our inventiveness to the development of technologies that give us genuine autonomy to defend our territory."
Today Venezuela manufactures all-terrain vehicles, trucks, ammunition, rifles, aircraft without crew, grenades, assembled ships of small and medium-sized ports among other items.
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