More than 200 agreements, treaties and compromise acts signed between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Argentine Republic, between 1999 and 2013, have made Transparency Venezuela available to citizens, journalists, researchers and other interested parties in the open database. Vendata. La online consultation platform for international treaties and agreements signed between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic Argentina is a new effort by the organization to combat opacity and guarantee access to public information.

The platform, which has search engines and parameters that allow easy access, offers reliable and verifiable information on the commitments reached in a variety of sectors, such as science, technology, agribusiness, food, commerce, transportation, finance, mining, hydrocarbons, health, housing, industry, education, training, agriculture, tourism, culture and metallurgy.

The data is defined by the name of the agreements, type, matter or area of ​​work, description of the commitments acquired, countries, date of signing, agencies and official signatories for each government, those responsible for execution and attached body, in addition to the dates of entry into force and expiration, as well as the dates of publication in the Official Gazette, if applicable, and the link to the text of the treaty.

The creation and provision of the open data platform is an invitation and an opportunity for those who wish to deepen their knowledge and research on these treaties and their implications for the country.

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ideological partners

Each and every one of these agreements signed by Venezuela and Argentina meant the commitment of large amounts of public resources. Among them, the framework agreement for the payment of the debt of the Argentine company Sancor through the Economic and Social Development Bank of Venezuela (Bandes) signed in December 2006, for an amount of 80 million dollars, and an additional amount for "to supply the need for working capital" of the Argentine company for 55 million dollars.

What happened to these agreements? How many are current? What was the results? What happened to the committed resources? Was an audit of the execution carried out? Who was responsible for monitoring and auditing? What benefits did they bring to the country? How did Argentina benefit?

Most of the signed treaties were signed during the governments of Hugo Chávez and the administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, declared political and ideological partners of the so-called Bolivarian Revolution. The last one was signed in May 2013.

After a hiatus in Argentine power, during the Government of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), in December of last year the Peronist government of Alberto Fernández took office, with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, this time as vice president. In these exercises there is no record of agreements between Venezuela and Argentina.