The Government of Río Negro decided to suspend two social area programs linked to training and containment, and the Rio Negro Games in its 2024 edition, due to the financial crisis and the priority of allocating resources to social assistance.
The Minister of Human Development, Sports and Culture, Juan Pablo Muena confirmed that the Rio Negro Games will not have an edition this year due to a budgetary issue. and the programs RecreArte and Emprender were initially suspended until July and then analyze if it is possible to resume it in the second half of the year.
“We had support from the Nation for various programs and this year there are no contributions, there is no financing from the national government and that makes we have to prioritize items for food, older adults, people with disabilities, Senaf (Children’s Secretariat), gender and the Calor plan“Muena told RÍO NEGRO Newspaper.
He Minister was in Bariloche today where he presented titles of the Pierri Law and met with representatives of ATE who were holding a day of protest today in the mountainous city over salary and labor demands from the organization they lead. At that meeting, Muena took note of the complaints and promised to start a “work table” periodically (it would be every 20 or 30 days) to “work on each point and solutions little by little, which will not be one-size-fits-all.” day to day, but we are going to solve them,” he stated.
Regarding the cancellation of the Rio Negro Games, the minister said that a decision should have been adopted “regrettable decision to not be able to carry out the games because 80% of the budget for that program was liquidated.”” which is carried out in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and which mobilizes thousands of adolescents throughout the province.
Muena said that covering the meals, transportation, clothing of the school delegations that participate in the Games in each instance have “high costs and we do not have a price forecast either”.
It turned out that the Patagonian provinces together are also analyzing the suspension of the Epade Games and are in doubt whether the Rio Negro delegation can attend the Evita National Gameswhich was financed entirely by the national government and today would have a budget frozen at last year’s values, so it would not be enough to cover the costs of sending the athletes to Mar del Plata.
The RecreArte programs, which accompanies intermediate institutions with the hiring of teachers for various activities in artistic, cultural, sports, educational and access to new technologies; and Emprender, which held training workshops, were canceled at least until mid-year.