The governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Valdés, said this Saturday that he spoke by telephone with President Alberto Fernández, who “made himself available” due to the situation of the forest fires in his province and maintained that together with the head of state “he They will assess the damage and surely when the fire subsides, all the help will be seen” provided by the Nation.
“Yesterday (Friday) I had a long talk with the President of the Nation, he made himself available. We will see, assess the damage with him and surely when we put out the fire we will see all the help,” the governor said in statements to radio Miter .
In that sense, he said that Fernández “undertook to give aid lines to all agricultural producers” in the province.
“We have 800 thousand hectares burned, we are practically reaching 10 percent of the surface of the province”Gustavo Valdes
“I spoke with Alberto and he is going to give us help, hopefully it will be fulfilled and we can work together,” Valdés said and said that “he promised to generate the necessary springs to be able to get ahead after this.”
Also, the provincial president indicated that “firefighters from all Argentine provinces are helping Corrientes” and said he was “grateful to the governors who are giving us a huge hand.”
“I spoke with Sergio Uñac (governor of San Juan), with (Jorge) Capitanich (Chaco), with the governor of Tucumán (Osvaldo Jaldo) who is sending media. From Misiones and Entre Ríos they are also helping us,” he explained.
“The hardest hit we have are the Esteros del Iberá, where the fire touched all the portals”Gustavo Valdes
Vadés maintained that due to the fires, “the situation is very distressing, very desperate” and pointed out that “we have 17 outbreaks, the firefighters and we are all working enormously and the situation is very complex.”
“The hardest hit we have are the Esteros del Iberá, where the fire touched all the portals,” he said and said that “we have 800 thousand hectares burned, we are practically reaching 10 percent of the surface of the province.”
Likewise, he specified that it is “30,000 hectares of implanted forests and 20,000 hectares of natural forests, the damage is tremendous.”
