President Alberto Fernández and Sergio Massa will be shown together for the first time in a public act after the assumption of the latter as Minister of Economy, and after the launch of new economic measures by the government. He will be in the province of Santa Fe, together with the Minister of Transportation, Alexis Guerrera, and Governor Omar Perotti at the reopening of a 71-kilometer railway section that connects Rosario with Cañada de Gómez.
Massa met yesterday with Fernández in his office in the early afternoon to analyze the impact of the first measures that were adopted to alleviate the serious crisis that precipitated after the departure of Martín Guzmán, which deepened during the brief administration of Silvina Batakis. This Friday the new holder of the economic portfolio will finish completing the team that will accompany him.
Will appoint Gabriel Rubinstein as Secretary of Economic Programming, a sort of deputy minister who has the role of liaison with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and multilateral organizations, among other powers. Definitions are also expected in the area of Energy and the Knowledge Economy (a place that would be for Ariel Sujarchuk, the former mayor of Escobar and currently in charge of the National Entity for Control and Management of the Navigable Route, which is known as Hidrovía ).
It is expected that at 11:30 the President, Massa and Guerrera will arrive at the Correa commune, where they will be received by Mayor Nahuel Cejas. Then, they will go to the railway station in the same town, where Perotti will join the entourage. In addition, the Secretary of National Transportation, Diego Giuliano; and local authorities.
Then the officials will ascend to the formation and will travel by train to the Cañada de Gómez station, on a trip that will take 25 minutes. Once in place, they will proceed to reopen the railway section that will link the city of Rosario with Cañada de Gómez, after 45 years, since it was closed by the military dictatorship in 1977.
With this service, it is estimated that 2,000 male and female passengers a day will be able to move between the 71 kilometers that separate the Rosario Norte and Cañada de Gómez stations, a journey that takes 2 hours and 10 minutes and that will have intermediate stops in the towns of Correa, Carcarañá, San Gerónimo, Roldán, Funes and Antarctica Argentina. It will have two daily services. The provision will be made with three long-distance cars, a locomotive and a generator car. It will have 216 first-class locations, and will have a total of 16 weekly services.
To reactivate the service, a replacement of sleepers and fixings was carried out, and the level crossings were adapted to provide higher levels of safety to the operation. The revaluation has an investment of $ 1,000 million.
Massa’s presence is explained by the fact that the Ministry of Transportation remains under his control in the hands of Guerrera, who replaced another Massista, the late Mario Meoni, in office. With the merger of the Economy with Productive Development and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, it was also managed in the Everyone’s Front that Transport be united with Public Works but, at least for now, that possibility was postponed. Massa did not want to lose the management of a portfolio that he considers key, and President Fernández was convinced that bringing these two ministries together would entail administrative and financial problems that could complicate the functioning of the two agencies.
Meanwhile, in the frenetic days that are taking place in the Economy, definitions of two other positions that still do not have an assigned name are also expected for the next few hours. This is the secretariat of Knowledge Economy and, in a definition of high political voltage, also in the area of Energy.
as far as he could tell Infobae In government, there is decision taken that Martínez abandons that strategic position for the determination of the subsidy scheme for public services. He remains to establish who will be his replacement and when the removal of the official will be formalized.
President Fernández, meanwhile, will leave at 6:00 p.m. for Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, where on Sunday he will attend the inauguration of the new president of that country, Gustavo Petro.
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