12/03/2020 8:25 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/03/2020 8:44 PM
President Alberto Fernández assured this Thursday before industrial leaders that poverty "
does not get away with the help of the State with plans
, it leaves with businessmen who invest and generate work."
"No society grows by prostrating millions of brothers and sisters in poverty," he said at the close of the 26th Industrial Conference of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA).
These words were pronounced the same day that the UCA's Social Debt Observatory published a report that reveals that poverty jumped to 44.2% and hits 20 million people.
In a meeting held in the Buenos Aires city of Quilmes to discuss the axes of a "federal agenda for recovery and growth", he stressed that the engine that moves the Government "is for Argentina to produce and generate work."
"We do not believe in a country without industry, because a country without industry is a country without work and a country without industry is a country without a future," he emphasized, adding: "Trust that we know how to get out. As once we were able to get the Argentina from the labyrinth, we are going to take it out again. "
In his speech, the President reflected: "If we are aware of the historical dimension of what we have to live, we can surely say that we have been able to weather the storm quite well."
The president pointed out that between 2016 and 2019 the country suffered the "most enormous industrial fall that Argentine history remembers."
Given this, he said that his government had to "rebuild a social fabric that was absolutely broken and damaged, and we were able to do it," he emphasized.
Likewise, he indicated that before the outbreak of the pandemic the country was "without hospitals or intensive care beds, and the virus was running us down", but stressed that "in the midst of such a crisis we achieved two things: that there are no hungry Argentines and that there has not been an Argentine who did not receive the health care he required. "
"In this time where the contagion curve begins to drop and the vaccine is close, I want all of us to be proud of what we were able to do," he convened.
After highlighting the joint collaboration between "workers, businessmen and the State", the head of State stressed that "for the first time in many years,
the collection is above inflation
, construction begins to mobilize and the entire industry is moving ".
Along these lines, he called on businessmen to think if the option is for Argentina to "move to repeat stories" or if, on the contrary, "this is a founding moment to make another country."
"Argentina has to return to the best of capitalisms
: the one that cared about investing, risking, producing, providing employment and earning, and all this improving income distribution," he stressed.
Before the president spoke, the head of the UIA, Miguel Acevedo, said that Argentina has to "agree on a state policy that crosses territorial development with productive development" and remarked that "this task is not solved by a president, a minister or a governor alone."