A large truck with four 12m long steel pipes and a sign on each side that reads, the pipeline advances, Yesterday it was part of an unusual landscape in the Rural de Palermo property.
On the other, the steel skeleton of a house that can be built in a few days with the dry construction method, which enchants few.
Thus the Techint group received the 1,000 entrepreneurial SMEs that employ 27,000 people who make up their production chain and the ProPymes program with which it trains, helps export and usually finances them. The pipeline, which will bring gas from Vaca Muerta and which is already considered a masterpiece, toured the exhibitions.
But the highlight was the dialogue between Sergio Massa and Paolo Rocca. The minister found it comfortable. Even in answering questions that this time they showed no outburst of impatience.
In a moderate tone, businessmen wanted to know what’s up with imports. Massa has promised them that he will be generous with access to official dollars for machinery and will allow imports 10% more than in 2022 in 2023. Strange. A month ago, at the UIA conference, he spoke about this It would have been 20% higher.
The minister justified: “That dollars are not taken by those who import slot machines or crypto mining or towels”.
In this Rocca relieved Massa, “the need for this in the long run, we have to go back to a system where instead of being administered by the statelet’s go back to a way of working that leaves freedom to companies”.
The minister told him: “Managing the restrictions is very difficult, and making it grow is more difficult. The challenge is to grow and generate employment. Without the restrictions that generate macroeconomic damage. It would be a lie to say that these conditions can be met in the short termbut when it has its consolidated export volume and which accompanies a second turbine in addition to the field, which is energy”.
Rocca had received him with a video on the progress of the works which, due to the mobilization of resources and logistical engineering, amazed everyone. And he said that consensus can be built on large projects such as the gas pipeline.
“Last year I commented that it was not the time to leave Argentina and today I am very convinced of that. There are great opportunities in the country. The Techint Group is responding to the challenge with a growing flow of investments. In 2021 we invested $600 million, this year $1.1 billion and the next 1,400 million dollars”.
Massa knew how to repay him. “Countries that develop is because they internationalize their companies. Argentina We need 30 or 40 examples like Arcor or Techint, because they give the entire ecosystem a chance”.
And he launched an announcement in front of an audience mixed with businessmen such as Jaime Campos, president of the powerful AEA, and Abel Furlán, the leader of the UOM.
“We have to distinguish what Argentina’s development does from the electoral dispute. We invite the discussion in 2023 to take place as part of building Argentina’s future and not the destruction of the other. Without macro stability there is no social peace, but without social peace there is no macro stability. Both go hand in hand.”
Rocca thanked and remarked: “I appreciate the look of the building, the courage and effort of its position in the face of a difficult economy in a complex system”.
Some time before Gustavo Gerez, the 35-year-old lawyer from Santa Cruz and member of La Cámpora, in charge of the former Enarsa which is carrying out the works of the gas pipeline which should be ready on June 20, he said he had put on blinders to block out any internal noise and move on.
It was celebrated by Javier Martínez Alvarez, CEO of Tenaris. He argued: “We have a competitive resource in an area of the world that has no wars. With war, the world it has gone from wanting to be supplied with clean energy to safe energy and Argentina can support this challenge. The pipeline implies a transcendental change”.
Gerez said that the second section will be built and the idea is to reach Brazil, where Argentina is heading to replace Bolivia, which is suffering from the decline in its production. He anticipated the exports of 10 billion dollars.
And he sent a message to his fraternity: “Here there will be no tensions between internal demand and exports, they are both and infrastructure is needed. In this first tranche, the country will save 2,400 million dollars”.
Martínez Álvarez enthused: “Energy is not a silver bullet, it’s a titanium cannon. Today Argentina imports petrochemicals made with Russian gas and that is about to be replaced. Argentina will have the most competitive energy matrix in the world”.
Source: Clarin
