black "(...) As least as far from San Benito and Santa, Catamarca current situation can not inspire confidence in anyone. To inspire would have clarified a bit , miracle difficult because their blackness comes from many different causes, among which governments are terrible at the same time, cause and effect. Poverty, lack of water, the difficulty and cost of communications, makes this province what it is: a core of people unhappy, badly governed and property taken, and a handful of greedy people and greedy ruling and fleeces. The products of agriculture and mining today succumb in the struggle with freight (...); the worker has to bear a close and mean life, and the owner knows just how to stand. The poverty of the people would necessarily have to determine the economic performance of his government, if for some serve the logic, but it is not; not satisfied with the national subsidy artificially props up its economy, and the little income that could unbled collect the producer, the provincial -somehow you have to call it-have wide resource, and still would charge up the right to breathe, to keep as many employees, since they are almost their only supporters, the "opinion" that surrounds and supports. (...)"
Despite what one might think, the above is not something written in these days. It belongs to Robert J. Payró , who in his book "In the land of Inti" chronicles collected he wrote for The Nation during their journeys to northern Argentina in the late 1890's.
To make a comparison of that with the current Catamarca, I recommend listening to this audio and read the paragraph headed people, wealth, children in this paper Mario Wainfeld:
"The density of population of the province is low, 3.8 inhabitants per square kilometer, the twentieth of Argentina. Nearly half inhabit the capital, almost sixty percent in Greater Catamarca. The civil service remains a decisive factor in the life, culture and politics. In a report broadcast by Radio Nacional, the economist Juan Cruz Miranda made an interesting overview of economic opportunities shelled in successive years. We spent a glossary in this section. The '80s were the stage of establishment of industries failed in the heat of the Act of Reparation Promoted historical activity in San Luis, La Rioja and Catamarca, by way of tax relief. It is well known: Only San Luis took good advantage of comparative advantage.olive activity is stale but rooted in the 90s and took hold in this century, with the boom in commodity exports. There is good production in Catamarca, Argentina exported 5 percent of olives worldwide. If olive oil is (that is, a way of adding value sung) its share decline to 0.9 percent. The data, generously provided by the grower Victor Tomaselli, speak of tangible limitations of the "model" to transcend their bias by primary.
Mining erupted in this century. Catamarca is an important enclave, almost monopolized by the Alumbrera mine. Even if placed in parentheses (rather than central) controversies over environmental depredation, Miranda believes that the "spillover" of the operation is minimal. Wealth remains concentrated and to the best jobs, the more specialized, are borne by foreigners or Argentine migrants more developed provinces.
In Catamarca, May 2010, 39,773 children received the Universal and Son. That number, divided into 20,946 homes on a population of less than 400,000 Argentines accounts of hardship and inequality is not repaired. The information in May that is the last one on the Internet provides is woefully behind Anses. There may be a slight mismatch because that was the busiest month of beneficiaries, which is known.
However, the change may not have been emphatic, the figure for hits. "
The triumph of the Frente para la Victoria in the provincial election raises hopes of change as probably did other past events, such as the fall of the Saadi dynasty. But beyond the joy of electoral success (and its relevance as an indicator of a national trend), the winners should not lose sight of their responsibility in the transformation of the province and overcoming long-standing problems (as well as new). No doubt the INTI , the INTA the CONICET and other agencies can provide scientific and technical knowledge to generate ideas and development projects, and the provincial government in conjunction with the nation needs to move on infrastructure improvements and facilitate productive investment and generate sustainable jobs.
Although the evils past and present are a burden and difficult to overcome, it would be regrettable that once again "something changes so that nothing changes" and the wave of appreciation of the policy Nestor Kirchner initiated in 2003 dilution in Catamarca in a new frustration. Catamarca May the future, especially the least, no more likely to respond as the character Fontanarrosa when asked
- "How's Don toilet?"
- "Bad, but acostumbráu."
