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Peru's Fujimori announces $237 million to prepare for El Niño
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Peru's Fujimori announces $237 million to prepare for El Niño

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Peru's President Keiko Fujimori announced over $237 million to prepare for El Niño's impacts, including floods and droughts.
  • The funds will address three stages: preparation, emergency, and rehabilitation, with specific allocations for critical points and drought measures.
  • The government will also explore public-private partnerships for infrastructure maintenance to mitigate the effects of the climate phenomenon, expected to last until March 2027.

Peru's government will allocate over 800 million soles, equivalent to $237 million, to bolster the nation's preparedness for the climate phenomenon El Niño. President Keiko Fujimori announced the significant investment, emphasizing the need to address the phenomenon's impacts, which can cause both heavy rains in the north and droughts in the south.

We know that the phenomenon El Niño is already hitting, it has arrived with force and that is why it is so important to think about the three stages: preparation, emergency, and then rehabilitation. These are three fundamental stages in which we must be working as a team.

— Keiko FujimoriPresident of Peru, explaining the government's strategy for addressing El Niño.

Fujimori outlined a three-stage approach: preparation, emergency response, and rehabilitation. The plan includes a decree for 450 million soles to intervene at 380 critical points across eight regions, focusing on actions like building river defenses and clearing riverbeds. An additional decree will authorize 350 million soles for drought and water scarcity measures.

I want you to know that we are already taking solutions and we will invest everything we have to invest to move forward.

— Keiko FujimoriPresident of Peru, emphasizing the government's commitment to funding necessary measures.

The government also aims to involve the private sector through an "services for taxes" model, similar to "works for taxes." This mechanism would allow private companies to carry out cleaning and maintenance tasks, with the state recognizing their services later. The Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, Marco Vinelli, explained that this would enable companies to execute work, with the state compensating them after the legal framework is approved.

We know that the phenomenon El Niño will be a very difficult time for our country, but we also know that, by working as a team, hand in hand and directly with you, we will be able to better face adversity.

— Keiko FujimoriPresident of Peru, addressing farmers and their organizations.

El Niño, characterized by warmer sea temperatures in the Pacific, is expected to persist until March 2027, with potential magnitudes ranging from "strong" to "very strong" along Peru's coast. The president stressed the importance of teamwork and direct collaboration with farmers and their organizations to navigate the anticipated challenges.

Just as there are works for taxes, services for taxes will be approved to be able to finish all the desilting.

— Keiko FujimoriPresident of Peru, announcing a new public-private partnership model for infrastructure maintenance.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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