I recently a couple of days in Chimbote, the main industrial city in northern Peru. I invited the University of Chimbote Los Angeles where I gave a lecture and then participated in a fun concert sung by soprano Veronica Elect and child Cristian Aguero played Daniel Cortés and Gerardo Chavez and string trio who Hernan Valdivia accompanied with a couple of pieces of flute. Last night we were in the cathedral of Nuevo Chimbote (population 220.000 hab.) And then went with his dynamic mayor and our host Valentin Fernandez and Juan Armijo Civic Society members chimbotana the gaucho restaurant Zubzuck, former goalkeeper of the U, where the child Leonardo Estrada, who was born blind and the keyboard is wonderful, we had some nice melodies.
Besides these fun musical, I get the impression, after several visits to universities around the country, that our university students is much more optimistic than ten years ago. His main concern is how the economy going and their future participation in it, that impression comes not only from private universities but also the state, such as San Marcos, the Agrarian Huamanga, and national universities in places as diverse as Arequipa, Cusco, Piura, Pucallpa and Huancayo. Obviously
economic improvement on the past eight years, in all these cities is the main cause of this positive change. But Chimbote seems to have fallen behind, apart from the optimism seen in the southern Nuevo Chimbote. The two main industrial area, fishing and steel, are beaten. In the case of fisheries, under delegated legislative powers, was established last year a system of quotas. Obviously the goal of greater efficiency is being given, if not fish your quota, you lose what you do not fish, but on the way there are losers, especially the medium carriers and services such as spare parts and mechanics, who supply them. To some extent, part of this is inevitable, but urged a government presence to explain a bit. Otherwise, you can create a pressure environment quite unhappy.
In the case of steel, the international crisis has adversely affected the sale and production of domestic steel, in January and February this year the domestic steel sales had fallen nearly 80% over the figure in mid-2008. Now there have been a partial recovery but we are still 40% below last year, as in the rest of the world. The privatized Siderperu has reduced jobs and announced a reconstruction blast furnace, which is standing at the moment. Gerdau, the Brazilian owner of Sider, is serving the investment program announced at the time of privatization, but obviously is far to meet the inflated expectations that announced in 2007. This should explain more clearly why the "revamping" of the blast furnace has been unable to absorb redundant workers when, as has happened in the past in countries as diverse as Argentina and Mexico. This is also important to state the presence of senior management of the company.
Finally, many complex problems of the Chimbote region remain unresolved, such as irrigation puppets at the foot of the Santa River. Casma-Huaraz highway, initiated by the previous government, is not yet complete. The situation seems paradoxical to local observers, given the vast resources of the Canon Minero that has accumulated in the Ancash region-clear that they could not be used on a national route without any legislative changes. Chimbote
authorities need to pay more attention Lima.
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