The Plenary of the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday approved a credit of $ 74.8 million with the CAF for the construction of the Okinawa road section – Los Troncos, in Santa Cruz, a expected work for more than two years. The approval comes a few days after the anniversary of Santa Cruz is held and it occurs while the deputies They accelerate the approval of pending bills less than two months after completing their mandate.
The assembly members of the lower house, whose management concludes on November 8, drag a lag of 88% in the treatment of the 701 laws presented during their last legislature.
“To thank all the deputies and deputies that yesterday and today, they were in the session, we have managed to approve 17 bills and also two paral tributes one for the department of Santa Cruz and another for the department of Pando,” said the president in the exercise of the Chamber of Deputies, Deisy Choque.
The legislator highlighted among the approved projects the authorization of two external credits for a total of USD 314.8 million, managed between the government and the Andean Development Corporation (CAF). One of them corresponds to a $ 74.8 million loan with the CAF for the construction of the Okinawa road – Los Troncos, in the department of Santa Cruz. The bill will go to the Senate for consideration.
The work was defended by the Cruceña Bank of Deputies of ruling and opposition who qualified it as national priority to integrate the departments of Santa Cruz, Beni and Cochabamba.
“Let’s not see petty interests, it is a strategic reel that will link two important populations, but above all that will give continuity to An international binational road not only benefits Santa Cruz. Beni’s production can save time, distance, fuel and silver to reach the markets of Cochabamba and La Paz, in addition to the Pacific Ocean, ”said the deputy of the Most Jerges Market.
For his part, the deputy of CC Aldo Terrazas, stressed: “To deny this credit for the housing is to go against the principlesif we want the development of the country. It is true that this credit must be controlled, that many credits have been left in the nebula, but we hope that as they have 50 days of useful life (this government) I do not think that they are won. ”
While the MAS deputy, Tania Paniagua, stressed that the Carretero project will benefit mainly to the transport sector. “Transporters of San Julián, four cañadas, Guarayos and all the kid have been fighting this roadwe would like it to have become more before. We will have the confidence that when among the new government this will occur, ”he said.
The approved credit is produced two years after neighbors and carriers starred in blockages demanding the execution of this road, which resulted in a political agreement reached in July 2023 between the government and the Cruceña governorate to define the investment contributions: the central government remained in covering 70% of the cost and the government at 30%.
16 more projects
In addition to approving the Credit for the Okinawa road – the trunks, the deputies promoted this week an accelerated rhythm of legislative work to deal with pending projects. In two intensive sessions, they managed to approve 17 bills, many of them stagnated for months. At the beginning of the week, the duty reported that the legislative congestion reached 88%, that is, Almost nine out of ten initiatives presented did not yet go from the commissions.
Of the 17 approved projects seven correspond to transfers or disposal of real estate in favor of institutions; Three are symbolic such as the National Declaration of the Bolivian Tannat and the Livestock Fair of Villa Alcalá; Four projects are linked to infrastructure and productive development, including credits for the Okinawa road – Los Troncos, the Dam Resilient Program for $ 240 million and the incorporation of road sections.
Three of the approved norms are social or technical, such as the delimitation of municipalities, the modification of the Family Code and the ratification of the protocol against the illicit traffic of migrants.
According to political scientist Franco Gamboa, The final stretch of parliamentary work is carried out under a context of tension between the Executive and the Legislative and in the last stage it is concentrated in a hurried analysis of projects.
“The last stage in parliamentary work, before the change of government, everything is concentrated in a hurried analysis, the transfer of goods and the permanent blockade to the approval of new credits to face the economic crisis. The inspection and information exchange capabilities between the different ministries and the legislature have been reduced to the minimum”He said.
