translated from Spanish: Valente months with zero

autonomy has cost him take off the Chilean economy, but much more has cost take-off to the promise of the best times, the slogan of a campaign that has played him against the currency, especially at the level of expectations point that one and another time has come to clarify the Government of Sebastian Pinera. Figures for growth and investment have been significantly better than the management of Michelle Bachelet, who left the country with a growth of 1.7%, but as well all the ambient feeling does not translate at the polls and other factors make face this 2019 with quite a few earrings listed.
The issue is especially delicate, sensitive and key for the currency, because it is closely linked to levels of adoption of the current administration citizen. Not for nothing, yesterday a tenth of a difference opened fires between Piñera and big business, then that the President of the Confederation of production and of trade (CPC), Alfonso Swett, pointed out that the growth would be 3.9%, to which the President responded that even There is an incredulous sector with economic well-being.
The Government amended its entire economic strategy with the new slogan “Chile in March”. Owners as the “dream team” of economy or the “good news ballhandler,” interviews with full color, brief appearances on television and radio are part of a strategy directed by the Secretariat of communication (Secom) of La Moneda, which from made at least two months he took absolute control of the agenda of the Ministry of economy and its highest authority, José Ramón Valente, who had decided, during its first months in office, for an objective that did not have the expected revenues.
The decision was made, because after the first six months of Government surveys continued to accompany the good economic news that Pinera Administration has endeavored to convey. But also by an antecedent which worried the currency: sectoral ministers had a low recognition, as their initiatives.
The statement to the Minister on its activities was clear: should go to sectors that had not been done charge, i.e., small entrepreneurs, SMEs, trade, tourism, airlines, Sernac, all those who in principle would have seemed to Valente a trifle in its management. A change that is reflected in the publications of your Twitter account.
Thus, from Secom they told her economy its particular concern for the little public activity that seemed to have the Minister, according to the measurements of press they did since Palacio. The diagnosis was that the appearances were almost nil in terms of impact in media considered key to the Government, such as El Mercurio and La Tercera.
Secom took control of the agenda of economy, pauteando – even for on the work of the Ministry team – interviews that Valente will take power from his new role: the ballhandler in the good news. First thing was an appearance in El Mercurio, coordinated by La Moneda, where he made a sort of mea culpa, explaining that they had actually wrong to communicate. After that, the appearance in traditional media took a turn of 180°.
The statement to the Minister on its activities was clear: should go to sectors that had not been done charge, i.e., small entrepreneurs, SMEs, trade, tourism, airlines, Sernac, all those who in principle would have seemed to Valente a trifle in its management. A change that is reflected in the publications of your Twitter account.
The Minister will be reinforced with a new head of communications, the former editor of pulse of the third, Sandra Burgos, who takes in two weeks more and will replace Jaime Canitrot, who left the Ministry because of bad evaluation media which had Valente .
They fall from the Executive profile to the intervention of the Ministry of economy, they discarded that on this portfolio, despite supervision other than that there are other ministries and prefer to talk about joint work. “The program Chile in March is multisectoral. It is a joint work, which lead the ministries of economy and finance,”explained close to such sharing.
Whole proposal Minister Valente in Government installation failed strategy was based on the message that the country had reactivated and, therefore, investments “boys”. From there the creation, supported at the central level, of the office of management of sustainable projects (GPS) carried out by Juan Obach, son of the renowned businessman.
But to spend the months, GPS management seemed to cool down. Since the unions began to comment that, beyond the appearance in some pages of press, the progress of projects does not rely on Valente nor his team, but rather other ministries – such as energy and mining-who claimed his right to become “owners” of the tape cuts. “Ultimately the office has little power over the approval of these projects. What makes rather is a work of guidance to companies”, said a government source.
Some consider that the factor which most played against Valente plans is that economy is not even part of the political Committee, therefore, does not have a weight at the central level decisions country, as happens with the Ministry of finance. This, despite some achievements, as they recognize him, as that same Minister stated by their social networks, in reference to the new phase of the project mining Quebrada Blanca.
The view from economics is that the initial message of Valente, of put the emphasis of the speech and the strategy on investment, was not a wrong way to reach out to people, because it was based on objective data, point to reaffirm with records speaking of records of sales of automobiles or travel, together with the fact that the Government was the first to assume that there was a gap between the reactivation and the specific effects of this finally perceived the citizenship. “More than a matter of perceptions, the challenge of the Government is continue injecting dynamism into the economy, creating jobs, revitalizing the investment, because that’s going to continue impacting positively on thousands of families in the country”, said close to the management of the Minister.
Valente ruled his first months with an Undersecretary of economy, Ignacio Guerrero, who was not in tune with its objectives and to the inside of the portfolio recognized that each working in their own way. To that was added to several sectors began them uneasy feeling of the Finance Minister didn’t pay them the same attention to all, as SMEs, fishing or cooperatives, which were some of the guilds or industries that were affected.
For example, in the middle of the debate on the Fisheries Act, on three occasions fishery asked her audience – by Act of Lobby – Valente, but this rejected them. Something that was confirmed yesterday. “To date, there has not been any dialogue with the Government or the Committee on fisheries, on short Bill, something that clearly damages the institutionality and creates a bad precedent. By the side of the Government, the Minister of the economy has not wanted us to receive – speaks of development and growth, but Lode important industrial sectors – and the Undersecretary of Fisheries welcomes us provided not to mention short fishing law. Really the Government do that without dialogue can move forward in the construction of a serious policy, high-profile technical, modern and that take care of the reality of a sector and not only intentional slogans? “, reads the letter published yesterday in El Mercurio of the chairs” the national society of fishing, Osciel Velásquez NTE.
In the case of cooperatives – also in the middle of the discussion of a possible change of standard in this sector – the Minister is marginalized subject. “It was clear that it could not get involved. It was the whole issue of an Colun with Watt’s fight and he had been director of Soprole”, said a source of the dairy sector.
Those who support the management of Valente, see turning the economic agenda as an extension of the look that could not be run in the first months of Government, when the best alternative was, in fact, talk about investment, but that today there is space to add other issues more forcefully.
I breathe after the crash of October 2018, vision of La Moneda on Valente management has improved and, therefore, the idea is to give greater autonomy gradually. At the governmental level believe it has even potential be exploited, for example, not taken all the shine to its good ability to “keyway” and handling with the media, since it was a recognized spokesman for Econsult in variety of economic topics and habitué of ra God, TV channels and newspapers. “That it is necessary to get tip”, they stressed the Ministry.
The result of the latest survey Criteria that came out yesterday was a sort of “balm” on the management of Valente. The measurement found that, while the economic issue was to punish the Government, there is a rebound: in November, only 10% of respondents responded that the economic situation was “good” and today that figure rises to 17%.
The level of knowledge of Valente (37%) is higher than their peers in energy, mining, Susana Jiménez, and Waldo Prokurica, and 64% approve the conduct of the Secretary of State. “At La Moneda they are calmer because management is reflecting the changes after a critical period”, they acknowledged.
Air for the Minister, who still are pending be the Messenger of the good news.

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