Carlos Guajardo
02/02/2021 13:17
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/02/2021 13:17
“At least it served to make us visible after 10 months of managing misery.
I do not regret taking the photo in front of the poster.
But I say there was a
misinterpretation.
It was not an inauguration at all, ”
the mayor of Pirámides Fabián Gandón
told
Clarín
.
And he added: "We are a place that lives from tourism and we restored a poster that was totally deteriorated. I invited some leaders to accompany me to make it visible. At least now after the diffusion that took the issue,
thousands of Argentines know where remains Pyramids ".
The mayor thus answered the barrage of criticism he received for having "inaugurated" a poster on Route 3 that, with a billboard of a whale and the inscription "Pyramids 80 kilometers", was restored with funds sent by the Ministry of Tourism of the Nation .
It was the mayor himself who uploaded to his tweet the photo in which he posed in front of the poster with officials and leaders of the PRO, including the national deputy Ignacio Torres.
And the tweet said: "We are here, inaugurating the poster."
Pirámides is a paradisiacal town.
The only inhabited Peninsula Valdés, which was declared a
World Heritage Site
.
It is famous throughout the world because the
Southern Right whale
season takes place there,
which arrives in May and stays until December to mate and give birth.
Sightings are made from Pirámides.
But also in summer its small beach of one thousand meters and warm and transparent waters receives a significant number of tourists.
Due to the Covid 19 pandemic during 2020, it could not receive visitors.
80 kilometers The gigantography is located on National Route 3.
“I am not going to say that there was bad intention.
But a
misinterpretation.
I simply took advantage of the presence of the leadership of my party to go to the poster and make it visible.
At least the positive of all this is that now thousands of Argentines know where the Pyramids are, "added the mayor, who assured that" that poster was absolutely deteriorated by the passage of time, nothing was read.
What we did was restore it.
For a long time, providers and even tourists asked me to fix it.
And that was what we did".
“We live from tourism
.
And this pandemic destroyed us.
We have not received any tourists.
Now we want to rearrange ourselves.
I do not regret having posed for that photo.
It was a way of showing Pyramids.
An important message remained beyond the criticisms, ”Gandón said.
Pirámides was the scene of a PRO provincial meeting last weekend.
“I took advantage of the fact that the leaders were there.
And the Minister of Tourism Néstor García was also in the area.
I also invited him to take the photo.
But he couldn't come ”.
And he concluded: “The important thing is that a message remained.
And I want to say that in addition, with the money we received from the Nation (destined for tourist places) we also made an important poster informing about the pandemic ”
.
Chubut.
Correspondent.