For more than 16 months, some Venezuelan hotels have kept housed the nearly 2,100 affected families who lost their homes in 2010 after a winter wave that hit the capital of that country.
The sector has had losses due to room rental, payment of services and other consumptions that have been borne by hotel establishments. Likewise, there has been a lack of investment and the repairs that will be necessary when families vacate the places will further impact the economy of these companies.
However, the eviction looks distant, because according to Iglesias "in some hotels the families have evicted in whole or in part: so far, of the 170 hotels that are in this situation only 15% have been evicted in a timid way and that is because the families have decided to move to the interior of the country voluntarily".
On the other hand, the representative of the guild was suspicious about the probability that the homes that have been promised to these people will be completed and delivered in August of this year.
Some hotels have declared the bank broken or their proximity to economic bankruptcy because of this situation.
