Hidroituango: Iván Duque confirmed the inauguration for July 26 - Medellín - Colombia

In his most recent visit to Hidroituango, President Iván Duque confirmed that the megaproject’s first turbine will start operating on July 26.

The president made a tour and spoke with the workers and there he verified the progress of the works.

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“This is a strategic work for Colombia. We have made a visit here, we have spoken with the workers, with the engineers, we have seen the state of progress and what we see is a great commitment from the entire team of engineers and workers to have the first turbine installed by July 26which would start this project”, explained the president.

Duque also urged that “in a shorter period of time, the second turbine can also be installed.”

“With this, this great project for the energy security of our country could begin, and this project that is emblematic and, clearly, the largest energy generation project that Colombia has had, and the most sophisticated and important,” he added. .

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Iván Duque during his tour of the work.

It should be remembered that on February 2, EPM had announced that on July 26 the first turbine would be put into operation, but On February 21, the CC Consortium released a letter indicating that the schedules were not adjusted to the date announced by EPM.

This generated controversy, but with the president’s visit this weekend it was confirmed that he maintains the calendar and July 26 as a key day.

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On the other hand, in this same week the Comptroller General of the Republic, Carlos Felipe Córdoba, installed the preventive work table that will monitor the resources delivered to EPM by the insurance companies, due to the contingency initiated in Hidroituango on 28 April 2018, and the start-up schedule.

Currently, the works are at 87.32% construction progress. 8,353 people from more than 80 contractor companies and EPM work there, distributed in the different work fronts, mainly the machine house.

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Veeduría questions the inauguration of the Villavicencio-Yopal road without finishing - Other Cities - Colombia

The Citizen Oversight Office via Villavicencio Yopal questioned that the President of the Republic, Ivan Dukewould have inaugurated 150 kilometers of the road, this Wednesday, without the work being completed in its entirety, which is 68 percent complete.

The legal representative of the Oversight Office, Néstor Restrepo Roldán, maintains in a letter sent to the president of the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI), Manuel Francisco Becerra, “that We do not understand how the President of the Republic himself, surely misinformed, with the Ministry and the Agency, proposed to deliver 150 kilometers of road improvement without the works having been completed. and you know it”.

The road includes the construction of 39 kilometers of double lanes between Villavicencio and Cumaral in Meta, and Aguazul and Yopal, in Casanare, as well as the expansion and improvement of the 178-kilometer route between Cumaral and Aguazul.

Inauguration of the Villavicencio-Yopal road was attended by President Iván Duque and the Minister of Transportation.

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And the road improvement sections that are divided into functional units have not been completed. Functional unit two, between Cumaral-Paratebueno, shows a work progress of 67 percent and the construction of the bridge over the Guacavía river has not been completed. The sectors of Chepero, Boquerón, Santa Cecilia, La Guala and ElJapan are still being improved. In addition, the extension of the bridge over the river Humea has not been completed.

Functional unit three, between Paratebueno-Villanueva, presents a work progress of 72 percent; section four, between Villanueva-Monterrey, is at 88 percent; five, between Monterrey-Tauramena, is at 84 percent; and the sixth, between Tauramena and Aguazul, is at 72 percent.

Via Villavicencio-Yopal.

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Restrepo Roldán assures that the desire to inaugurate the work is not understood and ends by acknowledging that “this government was the one that unlocked all the problems that affected the continuation of the works and as the Minister of Transport, Ángela María Orozco, said: ‘They began to regain confidence.’ But today, that recovery is declining again, because as the president said, the object is ‘Conclude, Conclude, Conclude,’ says the citizen observer.

“These works do not belong to politicians, but to the citizenry, precisely the same one that today runs with all the inconveniences of time and inconvenience to be able to reach their destinations,” concludes the inspector’s office.

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Laporta attends the inauguration of the new head of the Army in Catalonia | Sports Social Networks

The president of FC Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta, attended this Friday as a guest the act of inauguration of Lieutenant General Manuel Busquier Sáez as Inspector General of the Army and highest military authority in Catalonia.

At the event, held at the Barcelona Captaincy, Busquier promised to strengthen the Army’s ties with state, regional and local authorities and improve society’s knowledge of the armed forces.

US Vice President Harris to Attend Inauguration of Honduras’ First Female President

WASHINGTON — 

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Honduras on Thursday to attend the inauguration of Xiomara Castro as the Central American nation’s first female president.

Harris attendance at the historic event underscores her role in leading President Joe Biden’s efforts to curb the migration of hundreds of thousands of people from Honduras and neighboring El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico into the United States each year, many of them traveling on foot over thousands of kilometers. Harris has been specifically tasked with addressing the root causes of the mass migration, including poverty and crime.

Biden pledged to adopt a more humane stance on migration than that of his predecessor, Donald Trump, who expelled migrants back to their home countries and separated children from their families.

Also attending Castro’s swearing-in will be Vice President William Lai of Taiwan. Castro has talked of switching Honduras’s diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China, which claims the self-ruled as part of its territory and has pushed to isolate Taipei from the international community.

Castro campaigned on a platform of ending the corruption that had clouded the 12-year rule of the right-wing National Party, which took power after her husband, Manuel Zelaya, was overthrown by the military. But her tenure has already gotten off to a rocky start after a breakaway faction of her Liberty and Refoundation Party, or Libre, elected lawmaker Jorge Calix to be their congressional leader last weekend.

The move went against an agreement Castro reached with the Partido Salvador de Honduras party, a key part of her political alliance that helped her win last November’s election, to choose PSH lawmaker Luis Redondo as congressional leader.

Some information for this report came from The Associated Press and Reuters.