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Exit to the
Sea
by the Atlantic
Mauricio Aira
Burlando to him to the ill-fated destiny that closed the exit to
him by the Pacific, Bolivia arrives today at the Atlantic, thanks to the
genius, the perseverancia, the futurist and patriotic vision of a
Bolivian patricio, the cochabambino Joaquin Aguirre Lavayén.
In effect almost two decades ago Joaquin
Aguirre settled on the 206 hectares that granted to him
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Government in quality of earth of
colonization and for the construction of a frank zone, on the Tamengo
channel, hidrovía between the Paraguay rivers, Parana in the border with
Brazil, according to we illustrated with this obtained map of the page that
Port Aguirre exhibits in Internet.
I knew Don Joaquin when like great friend
of Carlos Cinnamons, it did not let visit the Times and it dedicated to
footpaths notes to him, brilliants, with guessed right deep suggestions and
reflections to the citadino task. Aguirre had praised the campaign by the
cleaning of the City, who I undertook by a network of transmitters, next to
the institutions interested in offering an expensive free from Cochabamba,
(at that moment that signs this chronicle to the position of Head of Department
of Public Relations of the Municipality). The writer and industralist who
had obtained lauros in philosophy and letters in Universities of the United
States, had many ideas to take to Cochabamba forwards and he filled to us
of restlessness in the Meeting of the Community, where personalities like
Hugo Bilbao the Old one, René Olmedo, Javier Rodriguez Rivas, Jose of Reza,
Carlos Cosío, offered their enthusiastic applause him. Assets in the civic
management were designated President of the Bolivian Corporation of
Promotion, that was then the conglomerate of the companies of the State.
The history of life of Joaquin Aguirre is
full of profits in diplomatic, enterprise, political, literary the world,
but no of its tasks has been as successful as the creation from Port
Aguirre. To its activities of industrial entrepreneur in the United States,
Colombia, Ecuador added the one of the Port Aguirre who in so just a short
time, has become its work stars, that shines with own lights and that
little is obtaining less than the miracle to export Bolivian products, what
peculiar subject, after giving the return to the continent by the Strait of
Magellan, they border the Chilean coast and they deposit them in the
markets of Chile and Peru, we talked about soya, the sugar, other cereals,
the wood. In this periplo some days are delayed.
Its task to the control of the Corporation
of Promotion was not of long time, although it marked definitively his
enterprise vocation when negotiating and to obtain the first resources to obtain
the navigability of the channel with aid of the World Bank and other
organisms that little by little would become partners of Aguirre in the
business of giving to Bolivia an exit him to the sea by the Atlantic.
Port Aguirre becomes a challenge for Don Joaquin
thus, that is able to jeopardize to its children in the tremendous task,
for that reason it is not strange in the list of profits of this company,
had been chosen 23 of March the last,
date that the Bolivians we celebrated like the Day
of the Sea, in commemoration to the inmolación of the national hero Eduardo
Abaroa in defense of the territory before the initiated invasion of Chile
the 14 of February of 1879, to on board inaugurate the first terminal of
containers and load of enormous hulls identified with the red flag, yellow
and green of the Republic of Bolivia.
What began like a modest port to export
grains, becomes today a complex and a commercial and industrial,
neighboring zone of Brazil, with the sight put in the markets of the South,
and other something more distant. Who had been able it to believe, if the
exit to the sea does not occur by the Pacific, we leave to the vicinity of
the world by the Atlantic and that is Joaquin Aguirre, descendant of
illustrious Bolivians and plenty of that visionary passion of future, the
executor of this dream, of this vision. In these Bolivia conditions it
exports soya and it is located between the most important producers and
drug dealers of this product in the world.
Despite the excellence of the project it
had not been developed in case the World Bank in its financial branch, the
Cargill the International, as multinational agro-industrial the shoulder
had not put him, although is easy to be conceited how much effort, capacity
of negotiation, interminable managements have been necessary to reach the
goals to consolidating in 1997 the harbor terminal that is known like Free
Terminal Port Company to also export hydrocarbons by the route of
international waters.
About the quality and diversity of the
services that Port offers Aguirre, these have increased progressive as much
for the expo-import as for the had re-export account who geographically
involves Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay (to observe the
attached map), which makes of the commercial center and their offices, a
source of use for more of a hundred of based families there, in act of
sovereignty reaffirmation. To Port Aguirre the railway line is connected
from Santa Cruz and in Brazil Great Field, San Pablo, Santos and Paranagua,
whereas by hidrovía it is sailed by ports of the four countries named with
direct access to the Atlantic. Highways and airports of Corumbá in Brazil
and Suárez Port in Bolivia make the Frank Zone accessible Port Aguirre as
the complex is denominated.
Deserved the extraordinary distinction
well which the Government of President Mesa granted to him, of the Cóndor
of the $andes, by distinguished services, which confirms the creative
effort of Joaquin Aguirre and shows the eyes of the world that in spite of the
unjust confinement to that Chile condemned to Bolivia with the discussed
treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904, nothing will be able to close the
passage to this mighty one and sacrificed Republic to accede to the Sea,
like the most universal route of freedom, brotherhood between the towns and
solidarity between less powerful and the most needed to harness its natural
wealth for better distrute of the Earth goods by the man South American.
28 of March of 2005
Mauricio Aira
Bolivian
journalist
mauricio.aira@comhem.se
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