Cesar’s department It has been governed by them for more than 12 years, and although there have been periods in fractions of 4 years, there has never been a vision of long-term development projects. If we look towards our neighbor, the city of Barranquillaits leaders have projected a city of the future, becoming a repowered metropolis, showing that yes, there is an administrative and political structure, designed in the long term.
Instead, in the Cesar The administrations have become involved in developing short-term projects, which seem to have their purpose only to show results in the 4 years of government and thus maintain their popularity.
However, the projects developed so far are not part of a mega project that favors the development of the department; They are isolated projects with little impactthus indicating that the administration’s intentions are not aligned towards a real transformation of the territory.
Several questions arise from this: Does the department have a real, grounded and budgeted future plan that they have been executing year after year and administration after administration? The answer is no. Today we have no idea what Cesar will be like in 2040, what will happen to Cesar after coal, we are not even clear, nor is there any work being done on what the economic base of the department will be once our flagship mineral leaves the market, well we have zero industrial growth, we do not generate added value from anything.
The worst thing about the issue is that we have a department with insecure rural areas, which does not provide guarantees for investment, little infrastructure that leverages development, it is an unattractive department to do business, to do industry, and this is indeed a 100% responsibility. % of the departmental government, not due to lack of money, but due to lack of strategy, planning, knowledge and above all lack of Vision, the latter, due to having poorly qualified personnel who only fulfill a political role and do not look after the future of the department.
This is a call for the department to rethink, to transform itself just as the world also does, We cannot continue thinking the same as 30 years ago, today the world changes every 4 to 5 years.
By Amat David Zuluaga