With the deadline for Congress to approve the 2020 public budget expiring, the Guatemalan government must work with the 2019 budget, so some investments in public infrastructure could come to a halt in the first months of the year.
Last November 30, the deadline for the Congress of the Republic to approve the draft budget of income and expenditures of the nation for 2020, which amounted to Q91.9 billion ($11.9 billion) and was not endorsed by most deputies.
In Guatemala, the government announced that plans to invest nearly $143 million this year in repairing and maintaining the country's road network.
According to representatives of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV), among the investments projected stand out the maintenance and repair of bridges, signaling of vertical and horizontal routes, works of sealing of cracks, works of repair of the route CA-2 East and of the CA-2 West, and more works.
The Guatemalan government will liquidate the works contract to extend 100 km of the CA2 East highway, which connects the department of Escuintla and the border with El Salvador.
The Ministry of Communications announced that this month they plan to liquidate the contract with Sigma Constructores, which had as objective to expand from two to four lanes the stretch of road that goes from Escuintla and ends at the border Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, Jutiapa Department.
Authorities stated that this week they plan to publish specifications for the construction of 750 houses, which will be delivered to those affected by the eruptions of the Fuego Volcano.
Representatives from the Ministry of Communications, announced that the tender will include the design and construction of low-cost housing, and that the process will be published in the next few days on the Guatecompras portal.
Following the disasters caused by the Fuego Volcano in Guatemala, authorities stated that they will be investing $31 million to recover a 17-kilometer stretch of road.
Representatives from the Ministry of Communications, said that the works to renovate the highway section of the RN14 route, will have an approximate duration of 18 months.
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