Tegucigalpa.
El Private sector of Honduras is in a “state of calamity” due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has 3,354 deaths and 134,111 contagions, and the effects of the Eta and Iota tropical towers, which reject the idea of a new quarantine to prevent uncontrolled advance of the enfermedad.
“The private company is in a state of calamity, ten months of confinement and breathing (work) in the middle of the day with steam on the covid-19 and in November we were affected by the tropical storms”, said in an interview with Efe the President of the Council Honduran de la Empresa Privada (Cohep), Juan Carlos Sikaffy.
The natural phenomena mainly affect the Valle de Sula, in the Caribbean department of Cortés, which is part of its part Yoro (north), region that produces 45% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the country, which has date “serious consequences” for Honduras, signal.
Each of these Hondurans also has “serious problems in accessing their resources”, for those who live in “precariousness”, the quality, signal, preoccupation with private enterprise.
The 90% of Honduras’ business empire is micro and small business, one of the most affected sectors by coronavirus and lasers torments Eta e Iota, and the “large limits” have not allowed their reactivation, addition.
New Quarantine
Sikaffy rebuffed the idea of impressing a new quarantine in Honduras, a medium he planted the authorities in front of the covid-19 case in the country.
A quarantine is “contextual, we take care, take responsibility for each of us”, underlined by the empress, who indicates that the confinement “va a volver a mucha gente pobre poor” en el pais, donde ha aumentado la informalidad.
“If people are willing to work for the sake of it, in order to be as good as they are, if they are, they are a source of ingress, they are more likely to be poor, they are serious, we can read a social decomposition without precedents. país “, enfatizó.
Honduras is facing a “point of inflection” and now has “a great opportunity to rebuild the country”, since the multilateral bodies have received funding, so the Government and the companies have to formulate projects that have a “major impact” on the population, explained.
Honduras, a country with 9.3 million inhabitants, accumulates 134,111 cases of covid-19 and 3,354 deaths, and since the finals of December passed a pandemic response that is limited to the health system.
Unir esfuerzos
All sectors of the economy will be closed in March, with mechanisms being applied such as the suspension of contracts, and the opening of the most important sectors to the finals of July.
However, economic reactivity has been slow, with Sikaffy demanding that Gobierno “join forces” with all sectors to “build the country together”.
The principals of the private company of Honduras are rehabilitating and reconstructing the destroyed by the Eta and Iota towers, in November passed, and the economic reactivation, advice.
Reactivate the debilitating economic trend by saying “give credit to credit unions, guarantee funds that the government will have to recover”, explained and invited employers to reinvent themselves to resume their activities.
The crisis is exacerbated by empresarias queda patented in the figures of example, of one million people in the formal sector, and more than 1.5 million people with “serious problems of interest” in the informal sector.
Los daños que dejaron Eta and Iota equivalen a 46,000 million lempiras (1,896 million dollars), according to a report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal) quoted by the emperor.
Signal that the covid-19 pandemic has hit the Honduran economy and caused losses of at least 18% of GDP, which equated to 120,000 million dollars (4,946 million dollars).
Reconstruction plan
In its opinion, the National Reconstruction Plan announced by the Government of Honduras should prioritize attacking “human tragedy, the rehabilitation of those destroyed by the torments and the reactivation of the economy”.
For Honduras, they will attract foreign investment, but the country will have to make a “reconstruction of its vulnerable climate,” said Sikaffy.
El Gobierno also has to guarantee the foreign investment “certificates”, clear rules, institutional strength for those who have the security that their investments are “safe in the country”.
The country also has to fight corruption, a problem “endemic to the country that must be eradicated, we will not aggravate one more second with themes of corruption”, underlined the president of Cohep, the main dome patron of Honduras.
“Corruption must be attacked from its point of view,” Sikaffy said, adding that the main problem with this flag is that “impunity exists”.
The business director also urged the sanitary authorities to “do everything in their power to keep the vacancy (against the covid-19) lo antes posible “.
The Honduras Institute of Honduran Social Security (IHSS) has announced the purchase of 1.4 million vaccine doses against covid-19 of the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company, for which the Cohep has given a guarantee of 3.4 million dollars .