In a press conference, the Secretary of Social Communication of the presidency, Santiago Palomo, said this initiative constitutes an innovative, systematic and comprehensive approach to generate this path and complement essential areas such as health, education and others.
A route -the official stressed- where the people can receive the arrival of basic services, generate growth poles and fundamentally connect those who have been relegated.
From the National Palace of Culture, headquarters of the Executive, the director of the Program, Juan Carlos Méndez, stressed this is a commitment of the general policy of the administration of President Bernardo Arévalo.
It establishes that poverty, extreme poverty, and the creation of a human economy centered on the person, prosperous, equitable, and environmentally sustainable, must be reduced, he described.
Therefore, in order to fulfill this commitment, it is necessary to improve mobility and access to basic services in rural areas, Méndez expanded in the space called Ronda de la Semana.
In this way, the Program seeks to align priorities, coordinate institutions, and make it clear that it is the units of each ministry that participate that execute, he affirmed.
He announced that next Wednesday they will carry out a local launch in the Cobán municipality, Alta Verapaz department, and that the goal throughout the entire period of the current government (until 2028) is to reach four thousand 820 kilometers of roads.
He explained last year they built between 400 and 500 through the Army Corps of Engineers, while he showed the populated places in this Central American territory where there are at least 70 percent of homes with unmet basic needs. The director of the Program presented a map with only 7,400 kilometers of the registered road network (17,200) paved or asphalted.
Authorities from the National Institute of Statistics reported at the end of August last year that there were 9.7 million poor people in the land of the quetzal, 56 percent of the population and 16.2 in extreme conditions.
The Arévalo administration insists on political and institutional decisions that guarantee infrastructure, sanitation and, above all, roads that connect communities with health centers and businesses.
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