Alberto Fernandez: "That the State is present is not demagogy, it is responsibility"

President Alberto Fernandez called this Thursday night to think about the development of the north, Patagonia and the center of the country “for the next ten years”, stressed the importance of “this plan giving us equality” and assured that the presence of the State “It is not demagogy, it is responsibility“.

“Utopias can come true. I dream that Argentina, in this 40th year of democracy, will be able to establish State policies that define the futuredevelopment of northern Argentina, Patagonia and the center for the next ten years“, said the head of state when leading this Thursday the inauguration ceremony of the Los Sauces water, recreational and sports park, in the province of La Rioja, where also delivered ambulances and Safe Sleep plan kits.

The president added: “But above all things, I dream that this plan gives us equality. I ask you to put the utopia of equality in your head, don’t let me dream alone“.

“Dream equality with me and let’s make it possible,” urged Fernández, accompanied by the Riojan governor, Ricardo Quintela; the lieutenant governor, Florence Lopez; and the Minister of Tourism and Sports, Matthias Lammens; and the Ministers of Health, Carla Vizzotti; and Social Development, Victoria Toulouse Peace.

In this sense, he pointed out that “the fact that the State is present is not demagogy, it is responsibility.”

“Where there is a need, there is a right. That’s what we learned and that’s what we do. Later, if they want to call us demagogues or vote buyers, call us that. The only thing I know is that every day of my government I resolved the lives of 73 families who They didn’t have a home.”

Public health in the Government of Fernández

also dstressed that his government bet “a lot on public health” and he outlined that when he began his administration they found “thousands of expired measles vaccines in a Customs shed and measles became a disease present in Argentina again, because those vaccines were not given.”

“I dream that Argentina, in this 40th year of democracy, will be able to establish State policies that define the development of northern Argentina, Patagonia and the center for the next ten years.”Alberto Fernandez

“Many disbelieve in politics and think that everything is the same. I want to show them that it is not. Because some let the vaccines expire while the little ones get measles and others go to look for the world in the midst of a pandemic for vaccines and we distributed 113 million free vaccines. Not everything is the same“, he stressed.

LIVE | President Alberto Fernandez (@alferdez) delivers ambulances and kits #SafeSleep for the province of La Rioja. https://t.co/uAwBKlvudU

– Casa Rosada (@CasaRosada) February 9, 2023

In addition, he outlined the importance of the Qunitas Plan that “was launched by Cristina (Fernández de Kirchner, when she was president), but thousands of those cradles ended up burned by the courts,” during the Mauricio Macri government.

“That’s the difference, when they govern those cradles they burn. When we govern, we make them. Those cradles mean continuing with a government program, caring for babies, childhood,” he said.

He emphasized that “these cradles are made in Argentine prisons by people who are serving sentences and who are redeeming their guilt,” and stated that “it is an almost perfect story, that of protecting childhood life in the first three years of the child’s life. infant”.

He recalled that “in the 19th century, the generation of ’80 believed that in an agricultural-livestock Argentina and built a country with that, which was in the center of the country” and “in the 21st century Argentina is very unequal, with a very rich center, the forgotten north and postponed Patagonia“, and struggled that” that equality arrives as soon as possible, because it is necessary.

He reported that next week he will “raid across the country to deliver public university buildings so he can study.”

“We can reverse that unfair Argentina, transform it, we have all the conditions to do it”he summarized, and specified that “the lithium that the world is looking for is here, in the north of Argentina”, as well as “copper, gold and northern silver”, in addition to “agriculture or olive oil, food that the world seeks”.

“The time has come, this year, for us to start designing a new country, which integrates the disintegrated that gives life and strength to the north and to Patagonia, which has gas as a transition fuel”, accentuated

Meanwhile, Vizzotti described as “a very important day for health” after signing in Olivos the President in Olivos “the lhey of oncopediatrics” to “continue expanding rights”.

This law, “in addition to timely diagnosis and treatment, has economic support and work licenses to care for the children,” explained the minister.

On the other hand, he stressed “the delivery of six of the ambulances” in La Rioja to “strengthen the hospital fleet” and that the head of state in the Buenos Aires party of Moreno began “with the distribution of 324 ambulances throughout the country”, which “It is part of a reconstruction of the health system.”

He also explained that the Fierritas program “serves to treat childhood anemia. They are iron supplement sachets that are manufactured in the country, from Viedma to the entire country. In this first stage, 6.5 million sachets are distributed in the NOA and NEA (Northwest and Northeast Argentina)”.

Besides, “1,000 kits are already distributed in the NOA and NEA provinces” of the Safe Dream program, Vizzotti said, and affirmed that “it is to restore rights that had been incorporated in the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and that were later discontinued.”

“Returning to deliver the cribs is a responsibility of the State”, in the objective of “reducing intra-domiciliary death”, completed the head of the Health portfolio.

For her part, Tolosa Paz pointed out: “We arrived with the Social Development team with the delivery of 100 tool kits to women and men of Potenciar Trabajo“, because “what President Alberto Fernández is asking for is to make a bridge to formal employment, from an employer, as is the case here in the Industrial Park of La Rioja”.

The minister announced that next March there will be “a very important commitment in terms of job training and the delivery of tools to the members of Empowering Work, who are asking us to have a job,” she concluded.

Governor Quintela listed works carried out in the province and pointed out that “this is possible by a national government that works to end the asymmetries with central provinces, especially the Federal Capital, without attacking the people of the capital.”

Next to @alferdez We inaugurated the Los Sauces Water Park, the first modern recreational, cultural and sports complex for families from La Rioja to enjoy. This new tourist attraction will have free admission until February 19 so that everyone can get to know it. pic.twitter.com/FVV4vFEG6k

– Ricardo Quintela (@QuintelaRicardo) February 10, 2023

“All roads lead to the Federal Capital and this serves to reduce differences”considered the provincial president.

He asked not to surrender “to the violent, aggressive right, which the only thing it knows is to destabilize a government,” maintained that “it is a small group with a lot of power and great impunity,” and considered that Buenos Aires officials, judges, and businessmen “went to Lago In hiding to plot the destabilization of your government, Mr. President”.

Inauguration of a Recreational Park

Previously, Fernández also led the inauguration ceremony of the Los Sauces water, recreation and sports park in La Rioja, built with an investment of 50 million pesos within the framework of the “50 Destinations” Plan of the Ministry of Tourism in order to expand and diversify the ecotourism offer in the area.

The water, recreation and sports park is located just over 15 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, on the edge of the Los Sauces dam, which dams the waters of the homonymous river, forming a large artificial lake, in the midst of picturesque landscapes surrounded by hills, and which constitutes a destination for camping, sport fishing and nautical activities, both for the local population and for tourism.

It is the first of its kind in the province, it has an access portico, a theme bar and a walk for artisans, a water park with pools, a dry square, a camping sector and parking, the sources indicated.

This is the third work completed by the ten projects included in the Plan 50 destinations in La Rioja: in 2021, the enhancement of the Castro Barros Cultural Walk, in the provincial capital, and the Visitor Center at the Historic Sites of the Caudillos Riojanos, in the town of Huaja, were inaugurated.

The 50 Destinations Plan has the objective of revitalizing, strengthening and expanding the tourist offer in emerging and consolidated destinations throughout the country, It contemplates an investment of more than 7,200 million pesos, with more than 230 works underway, which promotes the generation of more than 34,000 jobs with federal criteria.