Marisol Vicens, president of the National Young
Entrepreneurs Association (ANJE), says that the proposed foreign exchange tax
violates the Monetary and Financial Law. She says that the law establishes in
Article 85 that any obstacle to free convertibility of currency, as of 3
December 2003, is illegal. The presidents of the Chamber of Deputy and the
Senate met this week with President Hipolito Mejia to discuss the bill that may
be advanced by the government as it attempts to increase its revenues.