translated from Spanish: Piñera is committed with $20 billion and bonds to families affected by the storm in the North

President Sebastián Piñera continues touring areas affected by the storm affecting the northern part of the country.
From the region of Arica and Parinacota, the President made a balance: “we are constantly evaluating the declarations of States of constitutional exception and if it is necessary, as I said, we will do”.
After a diagnosis of damage, Pinera said that “our land registry shows that we have lost more than 250 homes, we have had major problems of connectivity, at this moment we have connectivity problems on the route 5, particularly in the” sector of Chiza, where southbound traffic is interrupted. We are making all efforts and I hope that tomorrow we have reconstituted with emergency solutions all connectivity in the Arica and Parinacota Region,”said the head of State.
“We are focused on facing the emergency, shelters, the problem of replacement of connectivity in the region, on issues to replace the services of health and education, also services of public utility, electricity and drinking water, as the most urgent”, added.
Pinera said that the Government will establish a plan to help people who lost their belongings as a result of the emergency and to support farmers through agricultural development Institute and the national irrigation Commission “are going to allocate resources to retrieve works of irrigation channels, the intakes, because in this region, you have to water every day (…) that support will see a figure close to $2,500 million in the affected regions.”
In addition to repair the connectivity in the area, “will involve an investment that will largely exceed the $20 billion”, said the President.
“We are fully aware that still have other tasks to fulfill and among them is reset and restore connectivity with other quality standard, because probably we are not going to have to wait another 50 years to again have winters high plateau and have that prepare us for that”, he said.

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