The revelation of the low budget execution in the Ministry of Environment and Water It was made by the president himself, Luis Arce, in his inauguration speech for the new head of that office, whom he asked to accelerate the execution of the resources. His new minister, Álvaro Ruiz, promised to work with transparency, at a time when his predecessor was dismissed for corruption.
“TWe have to put emphasis on it so that in this administration we can complete all the objectives that we had set for ourselves as a national Government. Likewise, there are many credits that We have been seeing that they were not being executed with the promptness and agility that it needs, not only the Ministryto show that capacity for execution, but above all to be able to reach and complete the works that we have,” Arce urged in his speech.
Although several of The specialists observed that the ministries were not executing the budgetsthe Government always denied this and said that execution reached 80% each year. This Tuesday, the president revealed the information about the Ministry of Water.
Álvaro Ruiz is the third Minister of Environment and Water of the Government of Luis Arce, The first was Juan Santos Cruzwho was dismissed and prosecuted for collecting million-dollar bribes to award works.
Then it was replaced by Alan Lisperguerwho was also accused of legitimizing illicit profits and falsifying the sworn statement. Now a former trusted man of Evo Morales arrives in the south of the country.
“We will make public management transparent, as you have said, “With zero tolerance for corruption, this work will not be possible if it is not a team effort, with the municipalities, the governorates, and the indigenous autonomies,” the new minister promised.
Thanks to Morales, Ruiz became mayor of his town, Uriondo; from there to preside over the Association of Municipalities of Tarija and then to the Federation of Municipal Associations (FAM) of the country.
“We are making a forced change of Minister of Environment and Water and in circumstances in which we would not want them to be repeated“We will never tolerate any type of actions that will attack the resources of the State and of course (the accused) will have the right to defense like any citizen,” Arce said at the time of inaugurating his new minister.
Ruiz did not waste the moment to criticize Evism whom he did not nameBut, he said that the economic model designed by the Government withstood more than a month of blockade and also supports the blocking of credits from the Legislative Assembly.
