This week’s joint announcement through Colombia and the United States of a primary investment program for rural progress was so unconnoun that it was nothing more than a public relations offensive for the besaversed presidents of both countries.
President Ivan Duque and senior U.S. officials jointly announced in Bogota the new Colombia Growth project, which presented ambitious targets for unspecified movements indeterminate times.
Duque said the new initiative will “provide resources for the development of networks … We welcome that it fits perfectly into our strategy to revitalize Colombia with a commitment to infrastructure development.”
U.S. national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien said it will “mobilize a wide range of U.S. government agencies to expand our efforts in rural development, infrastructure expansion, security, and the rule of law.”
Adam Boehler, executive director of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), said: “President Duque and I are committed to building a multimillion-dollar global investment plan that focuses on providing economic opportunities to Colombians, especially farmers.
Nobody said what the show would do. Everything was articulated in terms of “plans” and “potential”.
Duque said that at some of the recently unscheduled long-term meetings, officials will “refine the main points with concrete objectives.”
However, despite the obvious lack of detail, Duque said that the assignment would be “a kind of style of what progression cooperation deserves to be in the 21st century in the Americas.”
If the U.S. Development Finance Corp. ever make investments that gain advantages for rural farmers, would require a 180-degree change in the type of investment it has recently supported in Colombia.
For example, your online page lists 3 2019 projects in Colombia. One was referring to a $7.75 million contract with a company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which operated in 15 new oil wells in the Palagua field, 180 kilometers northwest of Bogota. A $3.0 million moment for a Bogota-based company to paint on the same oil well project.
The third assignment in 2019 secures a loan for a $350 million upgrade and maintenance program for the 193-kilometer Iron Gate toll road, which connects seaports and airports on a component of the northern Caribbean coast.
Duke and his American counterpart, President Donald Trump, are motivated to make headlines. Duque’s administration faces a poorly controlled COVID pandemic, ongoing killings of civilians in rural areas, weekly exposures of new high-level scandals and record cocaine trafficking.
And Duque and Trump face for the first time a gigantic organization of members of the United States Congress who are involved in the deterioration of the stage in Colombia and the lack of the United States for the full implementation of the peace agreement with the FARC.
A July letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, signed through 94 members of Congress, following a similar letter in May with 79 signatures. Among other things, the letters sought a “unified and unifying message that the United States supports the full implementation of the 2016 peace agreement.”
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