While attending a ceremony in Haedo, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured that “there is a nationwide broadcast of fear and discouragement” in the media, but assured that such “widespread negativity” will be over after December 1st, “when the Media Law is finally enacted.”
“There’s a nationwide broadcast of fear and discouragement. You never hear good news from (certain media outlets)! Such widespread negativity will be over after December 1st when the Media Law is finally enacted,” she said while attending the opening ceremony of a home appliances factory in Haedo.
“They will never show that we’re opening new companies – including one of them from Spain – which chose not to leave the country in 2001,” she said.
“Spanish, Mexican, German and Brazilian capitals are expanding their investments in Argentina,” she assured.
Flanked by Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli and Vice-President Amado Boudou, the President also criticized the banking sector for not widely promoting its investment loans programmes, and blasted former Central Bank governor Alfonso Prat Gay.
“We want business leaders to keep working but we also want them to invest in national production,” she said, and recalled the ads promoting the investment loans offered by private banks in the country.
“Honestly, they were pretty greedy. Adeba (the Argentine Banks Association) only showed one ad” promoting them, she said. “I would love to see more ads promoting loans for small and medium-sized businesses,” she stated.
She then assured that “some people are filled with self-importance in Argentina,” and stressed that she always asks God not to behave in such a way. “It’s the worst thing that could happen to a politician.”
“We need to work everyday while remaining humble,” she said.
She referred to – without naming him – former Central Bank governor Alfonso Prat Gay, whom she said “should have the guts to admit he left the institution because he disagreed with the Economy Minister over his ‘active polices.’”
Source: Buenos Aires Herald