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GABRIEL KATOPODIS: “WE ARE STARTING 21 PROJECTS IN NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES WITH PROVINCIAL RESOURCES”
The Minister of Infrastructure and Public Services of Buenos Aires highlighted that the Province will allocate 26,000 million pesos for this.
In an interview with Laboratorio de Ideas, Gabriel Katopodis referred to the University Infrastructure Program that he developed as Minister of Public Works of the Nation. “There were 56 national universities, in each one we had already inaugurated a project and we were already executing a second one. With Milei and Caputo’s plan, all public works were stopped, and this is undoubtedly one of the most sensitive, cruelest works,” he said.
He added: “You can stop the repair of a square or the repaving of a street, and it is a big problem for that neighborhood, but here you are dealing a very hard blow to an infrastructure that strengthens the only device Argentina has to not lag far behind the development of the world, which is the scientific-technological system and the public university.”
In this regard, the current head of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Services highlighted: “Kicillof decided that the national universities located in the province will not suffer this blow. We are already starting 21 projects with provincial resources.” He added: “We are facing the challenge of transforming this white elephant that exists in any university. In any university there is a building, a laboratory or classrooms that are 30 or 40% complete.”
On the other hand, the official pointed out: “I highlight the Governor’s decision. In a context as complicated as this, he decides with great responsibility where to put the resources and understands that he is investing. There is the day after Milei and we have to prepare for it, for that we have to have these universities and all this knowledge.” While he detailed: “26,000 million pesos will be allocated, which of course are not left over because the cuts by the National Government have been very violent.”
Finally, he assured that “25,000 projects were left unfinished and 130,000 jobs were lost. The future of politics is not under discussion here, the only thing under discussion is how we are going to live. In this sense, we are convinced that Argentina needs more universities, more roads and more ports, not less.” |
