The ad hoc board appointed by Juan Guaidó in Monómeros colombo-venezolanos SA (of the Venezuelan State), along with former managers, businessmen, members of the Barranquilla Chamber of Commerce, Senator Álvaro Uribe and other political and commercial agents, would have woven a intricate network of corruption to dismantle and loot the PDVSA subsidiary.
Since 2006 Monómeros has been owned by Pequiven, but since February 2019, after the self-proclamation of the deputy Juan Guaidó, a board took compulsory possession with the endorsement of the Iván Duque government.
A study by researchers at the Tejiendo Territorios portal describes a power struggle whose "bad results are so evident" that employees, and even Colombian Senator José David Name, fear that it will go bankrupt.
Repulsion
They recall the denunciations of Humberto Calderón, who was Guaidó's representative before Duque, when (two weeks before being dismissed) he said he felt "repulsion" at the "extortion of which the directors (appointed by Guaidó) of the company are victims" in meetings with Venezuelan deputies.
Then, internal wars are described between former Monómeros managers, politicians on both sides of the border and Colombian businessmen to loot the company with about 30% of the plastic and fertilizer market in Colombia.
Silence
They refer to "an apostolic silence" about the impact on the Colombian agricultural market and that Name Cardozo no longer says anything.
Silence would be "guaranteed" by Uribe's party, which "according to a source from the board of directors", left his brother "the agreement between Guaidó and local politicians."
Only scrap metal
There are complaints of truculence to sell machinery in good condition at a scrap price and to acquire other inadequate parts, dismantle them and resell them cheaply.
"The delegates of Juan Guaidó who administer Monómeros with the approval of the Colombian Government and the participation of members of the government's political party, seem to be achieving their objective," dismantle it "piece by piece," says the report.
An analysis by Senator Name Cardozo places Monómeros among the 100 largest companies in Colombia.
