The province has 99,633 km2, and anyone can ask a neighbor or neighbor who will tell them that this management has covered, and continues to do so, every corner of our Chaco.
From the first day I took over as minister I began to listen to the families, visiting their homes and talking to them looking them in the eye as the Governor entrusted mer. I can and will be able, even when I am no longer in this position, to continue doing so because I work daily on my commitment to them. Can all the former officials who sporadically visited the Chaco do it? Do you know what the disinvestment of the four years of macrista management meant to each Chaqueña and each Chaqueño?
During the four macro years there was no single public policy for youth. We were the ones who understood that it was essential to support them with specific programs that respond to their needs. Thus, we implemented “Focus” that grants scholarships and internships to university and tertiary students, or the “More Digital Inclusion” program that finances computers at zero rate for bridge the digital gap they left, for example, by paralyzing “Connect Equality”, among other decisions of that management.
We found a province that came from four years of disinvestment in infrastructure that our soil had never experienced.
Contact with the productive, business and industrial sectors allowed me to measure not only the most urgent needs that little by little, in the midst of the pandemic, we were responding to, but also were the axes of the planning and execution of fundamental works for the development of our Province.
Railways, ports and logistics development
The railway has historically been a tool that boost agricultural production throughout the region and the development of value chains. In the Chaco, the Belgrano Cargo has been presented as essential to lower logistics costs and is a unique opportunity to develop our ports. However, in the macrista management the opposite path has been carried out. They have implemented policies to the total detriment of the Chaco and in favor of a model of concentration of wealth in the central zone of the country. They didn’t care about the Chaco.
Allow me to graph this with a clear example. One of the most important works for the productive development of the Province is the completion of Branch C3 of Belgrano Cargas, in the Avia Terai – Barranqueras section. This work was planned to be carried out in the previous management, under the leadership of (Guillermo) Dietrich and Macri. It would allow connecting the productive zone of the Province with the Port. At that time we had a stock of 22 thousand tons of rails to be able to carry out the work. It just had to be executed. However, they decided to change the destination of these rails and use them to strengthen the trunk network (Jujuy – Rosario – Buenos Aires), destroying in an instant the opportunities of hundreds of thousands of Chaqueños. We can affirm that it responded to other interests, but not to those of the Chaco producers.
Fortunately, the current national government resumed the desire of the Chaco population investing in new works that can help develop value chains in the province, with a federal look. Access works to the Port of Barranqueras were carried out, the Primary Customs Zone and a fiscal balance were inaugurated there. Progress is also being made in the fitting out of the fiscal warehouse and in the parking lot for 200 trucks.
Along the same lines, executed by the Ministry of the Interior, with financing from the IDB, works are being carried out by 502 million pesos in the Port of Las Palmas. Something unthinkable years ago. Thus, in 2023 the Province will have two operating ports. Strengthening the value chains of the Chaco and resulting in greater well-being for all Chaco families.
Other transportation improvements
We continue to develop a modern transportation system that allows greater connectivity. Together with the National Government, we carried out construction and refurbishment works for bus terminals in 13 locations that will improve connectivity within and outside the Province.
In aeronautics, we incorporated new commercial destinations and expanded the number of frequencies. Currently the Province has more than 20 weekly flights to Buenos Aires, 4 weekly flights to Córdoba and 2 weekly flights to Salta, the latter being a route that did not previously exist.
At the same time, we continue to strive for a Federal perspective that enhances the development of the Province, actively participating in large-scale projects and relevant areas such as the Federal Council of the Great North, the North Bioceanic Corridor, the Federal Waterway Council and the National Entity Control and Management of the Waterway
Road communication works
If we talk about routes, the governor Jorge Captainich has made history in our territory. In three constitutional mandates, it will achieve the execution of 1,150 kilometers of paved roads. The vision was and is to invest in infrastructure and connectivity to support the development of our town through the reduction of transportation costs and the ease of taking its production to its destination. Between 2021 and 2022 alone, a total investment in road works of 35 billion pesos is projected.
On this road, there is a special look towards our Impenetrable Chaqueño. In addition to the works carried out to date, progress is being made in the third stage of paving provincial routes No. 100, No. 9, No. 61 and the access to Misión Nueva Pompeya; and the fourth stage of Provincial Route 61, from Nueva Pompeya to Fuerte Esperanza, works that will represent a total investment of 6,338 million pesos.
Through these works, we achieve a true historical reparation towards these historically forgotten communities.
To guarantee access to health for our entire population we have invested more than 8,800 million pesos in 205 sanitary works, 116 of them are new hospitals. And just like health, education has been a priority in public policy planning. For the 2022-2023 period, the realization of 254 works, allocating more than 15 billion pesos in infrastructure.
It is easy from the opposition, already in the electoral campaign, to elaborate a romantic and emotional speech of what has left them some passage through my province.
We prefer to continue knocking on the door of each Chaco family and for them to continue opening their homes to us. We are aware of what ails each man or woman from Chaco, we are not the future. Chaco is the present, and the present is that of a province with a constant economic recovery. We are the province that has generated the most genuine private work in recent years.
My province has the strength and drive of its people who have a State that accompanies and extends its arms to continue growing and developing together.
*Minister of Planning, Economy and Infrastructure
Source: Ambito
