Intenders ask funding public works approved - The main points of the agenda that was handled in the second meeting that the Minister of Planning and Public Infrastructure, Mario Isgró, held with the departmental referents of the Greater Mendoza were: prioritize the works together with the municipalities, identify the main projects by area, attend the specific needs of each commune and ask for specific support so that from the departmental forces they support the provincial government in taking debt to face strategic works.

After the first meeting with the five intendants of the East zone (San Martín, Santa Rosa, La Paz, Junín and Rivadavia), at noon it was the turn of the Great Mendoza. Community leaders Daniel Orozco (Las Heras), Ulpiano Suarez (City) and Sebastián Bragagnolo (Luján de Cuyo) and the Secretaries of Works Diego Coronel (Godoy Cruz), Marcos Calvente (Guaymallén) and up to the seventh floor of the Government House arrived. Eduardo Mezzabotta (Maipú).

Intenders ask funding public works approved

After discussing the planned work plan for the year 2020, most of those present agreed on the need to obtain financing that guarantees an ambitious public work plan.

"The great majority of the works depend on the approval of the indebtedness that we are seeing jointly with the municipalities, and thus be able to identify priorities and needs according to each area or region," said Isgró.

The mayor of Luján de Cuyo, Sebastián Bragagnolo stressed the importance of “we are all seated at the same table, regardless of political membership”, and analyzed that he is concerned that the province can not get financing for public works that generates a source of work .

"We will continue working with the technical teams and also, from our place, let the neighbors know that we need new works that come hand in hand with new jobs," said Ulpiano Suarez, from Ciudad.

His pair of Las Heras, Daniel Orozco, agreed on the need to plan: "We cannot have four-year government plans without first thinking about the next two decades, at least." And he stressed that with the indebtedness they could project the water and sewer works in the west of the department.

Under the same line were the secretaries of works of Guaymallén and Godoy Cruz: work on concrete actions that can improve the plan of works of the province.

Finally, Eduardo Mezzabotta (Maipú) said that he found it “very good to open the call to all municipalities” and spoke about “a survey of needs to form a bank of projects that allow you to allocate resources while waiting for the approval of the budget”, clarifying that "all these needs are relegated to that situation."

“We celebrate the will to open the dialogue, listen to those who are closer to the neighbors and from there, have a work plan that allows us to realize every need in works,” Mezzabotta closed.

Intermunicipalization

Minister Isgró was satisfied with the work day that grouped 11 of the 18 departments of Mendoza. Soon it will complete the agenda with the remaining municipalities: Uco Valley, South Zone and Lavalle.

“The representatives of each department were fully available to work in interdisciplinary teams. It is they who know the territory and have direct contact with the neighbor, ”he said.

Isgró argues that the Government's work plan is to do it this way: intermunicipally.

Oil will make Guyana grow at an annual rate of 86%

Guyana, one of the countries with the greatest poverty in South America, won the lottery and is about to cash the prize check. His neighbors, especially in Venezuela, are intrigued to know what he is going to spend. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the economy of this forgotten South American nation of almost 800,000 inhabitants will grow in 2020 at the spectacular annual rate of 86%, or about 14 times faster than the Chinese economy.

It almost goes without saying that it will be the fastest growing economy in the world. It could also quickly become one of the most prosperous nations per capita in the hemisphere and even in the world, on account of the oil that is beginning to emerge from the Guiana subsoil.

But many fear that, as there are those who receive the jackpot of the lottery and spend it on an epic party and a year later is poorer than at the beginning, Guyana could have difficulty converting that huge influx of money into welfare Stable economic for your people.

Raw and more raw

Guyana found oil and in 2020 begins to export it to the world. It is not that much, if compared to other major global producers.

"Eventually it could be between 700 thousand and one million barrels of oil a day," Marcelo de Assis, an expert with the international consulting firm in the Wood Mackenzie oil sector, told BBC Mundo. It is the equivalent of what an intermediate exporter like Colombia sells abroad, to mention an example.

However, dividing it by the number of inhabitants begins to understand the overwhelming effect it can have on the economy of Guyana, a country 50 times less populated than Colombia.

A recent report by the US CNBC chain estimated that Guyana could be the country with the highest number of barrels of oil per capita in the world.

Bad experiences

Recent experiences in similarly small countries with sudden oil bonanzas are not encouraging, Professor Michael Ross of the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied the phenomenon, told BBC Mundo.

In the oil boom, "money comes directly to the State, which becomes increasingly powerful, and can potentially be isolated from the democratic demands of its citizens. It is also, obviously, a breeding ground for corruption in small states that they have weak institutions, "Ross said.

"East Timor and Equatorial Guinea are recent examples of countries that received massive increases in per capita income. In both cases that influence of money created significant local tensions. In Equatorial Guinea, especially, money was often left to senior officials. of the government, and the country has become less democratic and more corrupt, "added the academic.

"There are few examples of countries that have handled these bonanzas well, and they tend to be nations that received these revenues at a more gradual pace," Ross said.

"In Guyana the money will come as a tsunami. If Guyana manages to manage that money well and limit corruption, maintaining democratic accountability by the government, it will be an exceptional case in the world, than any other nation in a similar situation. has been able to achieve, "Ross explained to BBC Mundo.