by The Minister of Social Development of the Nation, victory tolosa peaceparticipated today in Brasilia in a bilateral meeting with the Minister of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger wellington dayswhere they exchanged concepts on the social policies implemented in both nations for social assistance and the fight against poverty, and learned about the reformulation of the Bolsa de Familia Program of the neighboring country.
The meeting that was held within the framework of the visit of the Argentine government entourage in that country with an economic and commercial agenda, there was interest from the authorities of the two countries in inaugurating a new stage of exchange and joint work on social issues.
During the meeting, the minister was very interested in learning about President Lula Da Silva’s reformulation of the most emblematic social program of the progressive governments in Brazil, “Bolsa Familia”, which reaches 22 million poor families in the sister country.
“I am very happy to be accompanying the entourage of President Alberto Fernández, who has a great agenda with President Lula Da Silva and the entire economic cabinet, and also to be able to have a bilateral meeting with my counterpart here in Brazil, looking and observing what What has been the process of the “Bolsa de Familia” program, this reconfiguration that it is being given in this new administration of Lula and Wellington Díaz, it seemed very important to us to look at this new program for the acquisition of food, for family farming and to be able to make contact with agendas that are committed to vulnerable families in both governments”, said the minister at the end of the meeting.
In addition, the Argentine official pondered the work and policies in subsidized energy rates for family farming and for all food producers in this country: “we look very favorably on the role of the State when buying, from whom do you buy , how do you distribute these state purchases, promoting family farming”; and added: “we want to promote Argentina’s agenda of family farming to expand the food supply so that this food supply has a positive impact on access to the basic food basket in all homes in our country.”
For his part, Minister Wellington Dias expressed his joy at receiving Victoria Tolosa Paz and highlighted the coincidences in the policies for vulnerable families and children: “We had the opportunity to talk about the experience of Argentina, which has great concern for the well-being of children and caring for those who need it most, as Brazil also has. We have decided to work together and twinned with the experience of the two countries to achieve the best for our peoples”, he said.
Tolosa Paz conveyed to the Brazilian minister the consequences suffered by the policies implemented during the macrismo where millions of people were left in poverty, just like Brazil with the government of Jair Bolsonaro, highlighted the social policy par excellence in Argentina, which is the Universal Assignment for Son (AUH) “that Macri could not remove just like Bolsonaro could not do with “Bolsa familia”; and the family allowance.
Finally, Tolosa Paz highlighted that the meeting with the Brazilian pair expressed the essence of President Alberto Fernández’s concern, which is to strengthen regional exchange ties and obtain the necessary support from Brazil to alleviate the critical situation of foreign currency availability in Argentina. but taking into account that the other side of the coin is social assistance and the improvement of social policies.
“I accompanied the president on this visit to Brazil because we are very busy monitoring the progress of social policy and we believe that there is much to learn and exchange in this regard with Lula’s project for the social area. Alberto is convinced that the economic must always go hand in hand with the social, ”he said.
And he added: “in fact, those taken in recent weeks are being permanently monitored: the bonus granted to holders of the Potenciar Trabajo Plan in April of $17,375 and the 35% increase in the AlimentAR card. In this permanent monitoring and follow-up, the next measures to be taken to continue strengthening the social investment plan in Argentina continue to be studied”.
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