Caracas, October 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, presented the recording of a telephone conversation between the president of Empresas Polar, Lorenzo Mendoza, and the Venezuelan economist, Ricardo Haussman, in which they spoke of "a fiscal adjustment plan for Venezuela" driven by a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB).

During his program, televised on Wednesday by the state channel Venezolana de Television (VTV), Cabello accused Lorenzo Mendoza of conspiring against the country.

Empresas Polar is the largest beer manufacturer in Venezuela. Haussman is the Director of the Harvard University Center for International Development and was planning Minister under the Venezuelan government of Carlos Andrés Pérez in the early 1990s.

"I've been in conversations with the IMF.  The Vice President of the Western Hemisphere is a good friend," said Haussman, "and he is very worried about Venezuela."

"It's not possible to think about a way out of this mess for Venezuela without substantial international support," he said. "And the way international community organizes international financial support is through the IMF."

"I think that at this moment, we have the talent and capacity to do an adjustment plan for Venezuela.

“Do you think the IMF is going to save Venezuela?” he asked, adding that in Cuba, they have had the blockade and Venezuela has been destabilized with the smuggling of basic products out of the country.