Following the publication of the EPA’s draft Regulatory Impact Analysis this week which includes proposed changes to the Renewable Fuels Standards Program, the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber expressed both concerns and optimism regarding the possible effects this will have on the export-driven Argentine biodiesel industry.

Buenos Aires, May 8, 2009 – A recent study published by the Environmental Protection Agency of the United Status (EPA) is promoting biofuels that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by no less than 50% when compared to their fossil fuel counterparts. This same report classifies different categories of biofuels and concludes that soy-based biodiesel reduces GHG emissions by only 22%. If approved, the EPA’s proposal could cause grave harm to Argentine biodiesel producers, since more than 95% of Argentina’s biodiesel is made from soy oil. Additionally, the industry is export-driven and the United States is Argentina’s second largest export market after the European Union.

“The EPA’s analysis has the potential to drastically reduce Argentine biodiesel exports to the United States. It makes decisions regarding land use change for countries other than the U.S., yet doesn’t appear to take into consideration the positive effects of Argentina’s No-Till farming methods which plays a role in ensuring that Argentine soy biodiesel meets and exceeds the newly proposed stringent U.S. standards,” said Carlos St. James, president of the Chamber.

“While we fully understand and appreciate each nation’s right to establish standards and goals
for products consumed in their country, facts need to correct. We know that Argentine soybased
biodiesel is among the cleanest and environmentally-friendly options. This has been evidenced in scientific studies developed in the U.S. itself some years ago and more recently by our country’s National Institute of Agronomy Technology (INTA, by its initials in Spanish), both of which show reductions in GHG emissions that exceed 70%.”

The EPA has proposed a 60-day window in which the various industry actors can better understand the assumptions in the study and to offer counterproposals and corrections to this data. “Argentina has sound scientific elements to defend its position. We need to work internally with all industry interests along with relevant government agencies to present a common voice to ensure we are heard properly,” affirmed Lucas Trotz, the Chamber’s Manager. The Chamber is requesting a 40-day extension to the initial window, and various Chamber members will travel to Washington to participate in the July 9-11 workshop being organized by the EPA to discuss the draft.

The Chamber will also seek this extension as member of the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance, a global association whose members represent 65% of world biofuels production. Bliss Baker, Executive Director of GRFA from its headquarters in Toronto added, “Argentina, as one of the world’s largest biodiesel producers and exporters, will undoubtedly play a key role in ensuring that the industry continues to grow sustainably and we will work with them to present our organization’s point of view regarding the EPA study.”

St. James concludes, “We are confident that at the end of the day common sense, a frank and open dialogue, and the facts will carry the day. If not, the ideals of fair and open trade as espoused by the U.S. will take a step backward in the ongoing task of creating global markets.”

The president from Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, participated in the closing of the “International Conference on biofuels”, in Sao Paulo (Brasil) Photo: EFE.Â

The alimentary crisis is due to the speculation in financial markets, in raw materials, and of the oil industry; the ethanol and the biodiesel, combine growth with environmental development, but also with social responsibility.Â

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, exempted the biofuels today of any responsibility in the world alimentary crisis, that attributed to the speculation in the financial markets and the raw materials. Â

“The alimentary crisis is caused by the derived speculation of the rise of the petroleum and the rise in the prices of the raw materials”, Lula affirmed when closing the “International Conference on biofuels”, celebrated this week in Sao Paulo.Â

Some governments, international and civil society organizations have attributed the world food shortage to the biofuels, because for their production raw materials as the corn and the sugarcane are use, among others.Â

They have also accused to that industry of putting in risk the biodiversity and of exploiting the work under degrading conditions.Â

“A good part of the increment of the food prices is because there are more poor people eating in the world and it is normal that there is an increase of the consumption, but there are many raw materials speculated in the market of futures at absurd prices”, underlined Lula today.Â

The president criticized in the same way the lack of reservations of basic foods as the wheat, rice and corn that from the year 2000 “lowered to the half.”Â

The boss of State also defended the production and expansion of the alternative fuels, as the ethanol and the biodiesel, because “they combine growth with environmental development, but also with social responsibility.”Â

“I recognize that there are legitimate concerns in this debate”, said Lula who accused “powerful interests” of distorting the truth on the biofuels.Â

The representative for Latin America of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), José Grazziano, that participated in the Conference, supported the brazilian biofuel policy and highlighted the potential that other countries of the region have in that field.Â

However, the participants in the international seminar “Agrifuels as obstacle to the construction of the alimentary and energetics sovereignty”, parallel to the conference, condemned in their final document “the pattern and the promotion strategy” of these fuels.Â

The Earth Pastoral of the Brazilian Catholic Church also reaffirmed in the outline of the seminar its accusations that there is slave and degrading work in the sugarcane industry.

Lula also responded to the critics about the danger that the amazon forest runs due to the expansion of the areas dedicated to the sugarcane cultivation for the ethanol production.Â

“In the Amazonía region we won’t have sugarcane, but we will expand our ethanol to very degraded areas”, said Lula, who pointed out that the biofuels can help to solve the international financial crisis.Â

“The crises are threat carriers but they allow opportunities and new roads”, he indicated.�
However, he pointed out, that “the crisis cannot hide other bottom questions as the hunger and the poverty of hundreds of millions of people, neither hide the problems of the climatic change.”

In the conference that gathered academic, industrial and specialist, the relationship of the biofuels with the climatic change, the alimentary security, the new technologies and the world market was debated, among other aspects.Â

The brazilian chancellor, Celso Amorim, on the other hand, asked for the elimination of the protective barriers in the international trade of biofuel so that the poor countries can benefit of that alternative energy source from the economic and social point of view.Â

Also, Brazil and United States announced an agreement to enlarge the scientific cooperation with third countries in the biofuels production area, that will incorporate Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Guinea Bissau and Senegal to that initiative. Â

Source: El Universal/Mexico

SAO PAULO (AFP)-The world production of the ethanol biofuel will grow A 191% , going from 55.700 million liters manufactured in 2007 to 162.000 millions in 2015, according to a study presented during an International Conference on Biofuels in Sao Paulo.Â

The demand of ethanol in 2010, according to the study, will be of 101.000 million liters, infront of an offer of 88.000 million liters. Â

That “scenario tends to balance in 2015, when the offer should be near to 162.000 million liters, in front of a demand that will be around the 150.000 million liters”, reveals the study of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Economic Commission For Latin America and the Carribean of the UN (ECLAC) and the brazilian BNDES development bank .Â

In 2007, the world produced 55.700 million liters of ethanol, of them 26.000 millions in United States (based on corn), 20.000 millions in Brazil (of sugarcane), 7.400 millions in the Asian countries, and near 2.300 million liters in the European Union (EU).Â

“In those levels, the production of ethanol in 2007 represented around 4% of the 1.300 trillion liters of gasoline consumed annually in the entire world”, it pointed out.Â

“The biofuels and the ethanol were not thought as integral substitutes of the petroleum, but as additives”, told the brazilian José Graziano, representative of the FAO in Latin America and the Caribbeanto to AFP .Â

By 2050 “our projection is that there will be enough space in the earth for the biofuels production, considering the addition of 5% of biodiesel and of 10% of ethanol” in the petroleum derived fuels, on the average in the entire world, Graziano specified that was responsible for orchestrating the Hunger Zero program in Brazil.Â

“With the petroleum we will continue cohabiting while petroleum exists”, declared to AFP, the Mexican Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the Cepal.Â

The study of the FAO, the Cepal and the BNDES indicate that the liquid biofuels – especially the ethanol produced from sugarcane, corn and other cereals and in smaller scale the biodiesel (…) – represent today 1,5% of the world matrix of fuel for the transport.Â

The document reminds that from the 2000, the global production of ethanol tripled and that of biodiesel almost quadrupled, that of petroleum, on the other hand, only increased 7% and, “in accordance with some analysts, it will reach its maximum production in some years.”�
It adds on the other hand that “in 2006, the liquid biofuels were responsible for a little more than 1% of the world’s renewable energy and little less than 1% of the annual offer of gross petroleum, evaluated in 4,8 trillion liters (approximately 83 million daily barrels).”�
“This scenario will be able to change in a very quick way in most of the big energy consuming countries due to the application of policies that aim to a bigger use or biofuels for next decade”, it concludes.Â

Source: AFP

SAO PAULO (AFP)-The bioenergy and the renewable fuels open the door to a new time for the humanity, augured this Tuesday diverse participants in the International Conference on Biofuels that is carried out in Sao Paulo.Â

With the development and the expansion of the ethanol and the biodiesel “I believe that we are in a paradigm change, in a time change for the humanity”, expressed this Tuesday the mexican Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the United Nation’s Cepal (Comisión Económica para América Latina ). After the era of the fossil fuels, now “it is the era of the biomass, with the humanity developing the triptych of biodiversity, biotechnology and biofuels”, Bárcena affirmed. Â

The president of the Worldwatch Institute, the American Christopher Flavin, meanwhile, during the debate on the climatic matter, proclaimed that a deep change in the world energy matrix is necessary in order to reduce the emissions of hothouse effect gases.Â
“This is a fantastic opportunity to reinvent the agriculture, the reforestation techniques, to create a new industry, new employments”, he said, and assured that “Brazil should assume with India and China a leadership role in this process”. “Brazil already possesses a strong industry in biofuels and it can show, with its experience, the path, to the latinamerican countries, but it also has conditions to become a leader in other sources of renewable energy as the eolic and solar”, Flavin pointed out.Â

The brazilian Fabio Feldmann, founder of SOS Mata Atlántica, argued that the current financial crisis is an opportunity to “the review the world economy architecture, but also to include in the calendar the investments in renewable energy so that the countries can combat the global heating.”Â

The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ), noticed in a document that “the impact of the biofuels in the emissions of hothouse effect gases, varies in function of the raw material used, the local, the agricultural practices and the conversion technology.”Â

“The most important impact is the change in the use of the land, for example, through the deforestation. For that reason the importance for the biofuels production to obey criterias that guarantee its environmental sustainability”, added the document of FAO distributed in the conference.Â

On the other hand, “the reduction of emission of hothouse eefect gases thanks to the use of the biofuels represents significant variations. The biggest reductions are observed with the sugarcane ethanol produced in Brazil and the biofuels of second generation”, it highlighted. The FAO concluded, about this that, “the sugarcane ethanol is also among the biofuels with most energy efficiency, that is to say that fewer consume energy for its production.”Â

Brazil, second world maker of ethanol that extracts it from the sugarcane (it produced 18.000 million liters and exported 3.530 million liters in 2007), and United States that makes it starting from the corn, are the world’s main producers of that biofuel.Â

Officially it is predicted that in 2011 Brazil will increase a 73%Â the export of ethanol (to reach 6.100 million liters) and the internal consumption in a 50%. The export of 2008 should get to the 4.170 millions liters (+18%) and the internal consumption of ethanol this year should be of 18.760 million liters.

Source: AFP

SAO PAULO (AFP)-The Brazilian ethanol, derived from the sugarcane, will be the official fuel from 2009 of the Indy Formula, one of the most important motor racing of the world, according to an agreement signed on Monday in the framework of the International Conference on Biofuels.Â

The Understanding Memorandum was signed when being inaugurated the “Primera International Exhibition of the Biocombustibel”, parallel to the conference, between Alessandro Texeira, of the Brazilian Agency of Exports Promotion (Apex) and the president of the Indy Racing League, Terry Angstadt. Â

“The action is part of the strategy developed by Apex to promote the Brazilian biofuel as alternative of clean and sustainable energy”, Texeira explained.Â

The agreement foresees the ethanol and biodiesel supply during the whole season 2009. The consumption of the Indy formula is of 120.000 gallons (454.000 liters) of ethanol, used during trainings, testings and races of the 18 stages that are disputed in United States (15), Canada (2) and Japan (1).Â

The understanding among Apex Brazil and the Indy Racing League “contributes to the consolidation of the ethanol as global commodity”, commented the Union of Sugarcane Industries (Unica).Â

“In moments of serious energy and environmental financial dilemmas, Unica credits that the use of ethanol originating from different agricultural raw materials (corn or cane) in the Indy Formula would symbolize the dream of a bigger energy integration of the American countries, with potential of extending to the whole planet”, concluded the union.Â

“The initiative contributes to the deepening of the natural alliance between Brazil and United States, main producers and consumers of ethanol of the planet, that together respond for more than 75% of the world ethanol”, said the president of Unica, Marcos Jank.Â

Source: AFP

As they informed from the brazilian government the reedbeds sowed to obtain ethanol, would not be dangerous. Agency APÂ

The expansion of the reedbeds in Brazil to satisfy the growing demand of ethanol in the world won’t damage the Amazonas rainforest, said on Monday a high employee of the government. Â

In declarations at the beginning of a five days international conference on biofuels, the government’s general secretary, Dilma Rousseff, said that the country will announce a plan of agricultural areas very soon to specify where the cane can be cultivated, both for sugar or energy generating. Â

The Amazonia and other well-known regions for their wide range of animal species and of plants would be excluded. But Brazil will encourage the expansion of the ethanol production to other parts and in poor countries of the world in wich the climate is favorable for the cultivation.Â

“It is a socioeconomic reality”, Rousseff said. “It generates works and revenues, mostly in tropical countries.”Â

Rousseff also said that the expansion of the ethanol won’t compete with the production of foods in Brazil, and that space exists for other crops, including soya and corn.Â
Although the reedbeds cover 4,2 million hectares of Brazilian lands now, the minister said that that represents less than 1% of the national territory and that abundant available land exists outside of the protected areas.Â

Rousseff said that Brazil should “put an end to the myth that the cane fields are invading the Amazonia”, but the critics say that there are already cane plantations in the region and that some plan to expand. They also denounce that the conversion of grass lands and soya fields to reedbeds are displacing soya farmers and cattlemen that in turn settle down in deforested areas of the forest.Â

Rousseff said that the government of Brazil is prepared to help to the big ethanol producers that suffer because of the global credit crisis.Â

The ethanol producers were among those that could receive help when the government announced thousands of millions of dollars recently in lines of emergency credit for the companies affected by the crisis.Â

Source: La Voz

The crude of reference WTI loses 0,9%, to u$s54,46 dollars per barrel. The Brent falls 1,35%, to 48,87 dollars. The soya contract for delivery in January loses 0,41%, tou$s331,71 the ton. Â

In the market of the raw materials increased the fears to the recession arriving before that waited and to the effects impacting on the demand of fuel and cereals.Â

The raw of reference West Texas Intermediate (WTI) loses 0,9% and quotes at 54,46 dollars the barrel. And, the Brent of reference for Europe falls 1,35% and operates at 48,87 dollars per barrel.Â

In syntony, the price of reference of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) falls to 47,96 dollars per barrel, from the 49,09 dollars, informed the organization in an official statement.Â

Agricultural CommoditiesÂ

The markets of cereals continue attentive to the stock market and to the fear of these to the realization of the presages of a bigger recession at world level.¼br /> The contract of soya for delivery on January of 2009 registers today in the Market of Chicago (CBOT) a light fall of 1,38 dollars or 0,41%, at 331,71 dollars the ton. Â

Source: Infobae

The high specialization and professionalism of Expobioenergía has transformed it into the  sector´s annual appointment and so is it shown by the numbers that have been mentioned during its third edition. Â

Expobioenergía.08 reached the foreseen objectives and it attracted a total of 13.186 visitors, 40% more than in the previous edition. This fact, next to the high grade of satisfaction shown by the exhibitors makes Expobioenergía become again the obliged appointment of the bioenergy sectorduring 2009. Â

Expobioenergía in its third edition has been able to consolidate and has become the biggest European encounter in the sector of the bioenergy, being able to highlight regarding to other events of similar characteristic by its high specialization level, the high number of exhibitors and represented trademarks (a total of 424), the number of professional visitors and the numerous complementary activities that are developed around this fair.Â

The companies of the sector that are interested in participating in Expobioenergía.09 can already reserve space and profit from the different discounts if they do their inscription before December 19th.Â

Cesefor and Avebiom, organizers of Expobioenergía, will maintain during 2009 the objective, that since its first edition was set: to promote the bioenergy and to generate an outline of experiences exchange among companies and professionals of the sector.Â

Source: Expobioenergía/ María Castañeda

Experts assure that the impact in the country will be minimum, but they advise to be alert. Â

When the 40 entities that conform the Forum of the Agroindustrial Chain decided the agenda of their fifth annual forum-under the title “agriculture and atmosphere, a shared agenda for the sustainable development”-, the scenario on which the complex moved was far from being the desired one, but it was much better than the current one. Â

It is that none of their members could dimension the size of the international financial crisis that happened in the last two months and whose effects are still an incognito. “The storm had begun with the resolution 125, that although was neutralized its consequences still persist on the whole chain. To that must be added the financial crisis that is of difficult prediction”, diagnosed Ricardo Forbes, president of the Board of Cereals of Buenos Aires, in charge of the organization of the Forum that was carried out this week in Buenos Aires.Â

However, the leader defended the thematic proposed. “The work that we have carried out on environmental impact is a testimony that the agroindustrial chain doesn’t have its senses in the short term, but on the projection of the activity”, he justified.Â

The situation burns. Beyond the restlessness that the global heating wakes in the design of strategies to the medium term, each one of the links that conform the chain is worried by the situation. All have their reasons for not agreeing with the treatment that the national Government is giving to the most dynamic sector in the national economy and responsible for 50 percent of the exports that the country generates. That was the sensation that they expressed in the manifesto text of the Forum, announced at the end of the conference.Â

“The luck of the most important exports cannot be tied to the will of officials that claim reserved exceptional abilities, in many of the cases, to the Constitution and decide who can produce , sell buy, store, export or exercise any activity in the sector”, complained the representatives of the alliance formed in 2004 by the organizations of the primary production, suppliers of inputs and services, transport, food industry, and grains and meats marketers.Â

In front of the impossibility of acting on the effects of the world financial crack, the agroindustry is convinced that the Government should “correct the direction”, and to establish a system of fair game rules, stable and not discriminatory, dictated constitutionally by authorities authorized for it.Â

“Certainly the international crisis has been a substantial component in the emergency, but who suffer it inside the chain have been supporting, from the same moment of the non positive vote, a frankly hostile and discriminatory attitude. As if it was a sanction for the audacity of having defended what was fair”, they admited.Â

The other climate. The necessity to achieve a synergy between the agricultural production and the environment was topic boarded by outstanding specialists. Otto Solbrig, emeritus professor of biology of the University of Harvard, and Jorge Adámoli, investigator of the Conicet and environmental advisor of private companies, were responsible for the presentation of a report ordered by the Forum, and coordinated by themselves, on the possible impact of the climatic change in the primary activity.Â

“The phenomenon is already among us and it will increase the dependence of some countries of importing foods, because they will see the humidity of their floors diminished like it is happening in Australia. But the increases of the production will come mainly from the biggest agricultural efficiency, the biotechnology use, conservationist techniques, and the integrated handling of plagues”, Solbrig assured.Â

The argentinean scientist, that has been living for more than 40 years in United States but that continues very related to the national production, was shown in favor to the growth of the agriculture starting from the escalation instead of occupying new lands, especially in counties as Chaco where there is a lot of uncertainty of how the precipitations will be in the future.Â

Local relief. At world impact level, Argentina has advantages since the effects of the climatic mutation will be much sharper in the north hemisphere. But it is neccesary to not lower the guard if the productivity wants to be maintained. “If we don’t do anything it is possible that the production can decrease between two and five percent; it may not be a disaster at individual level, but it will affect the country seriously”, Solbrig alerted.Â

A vademecum of good agricultural practices must include the protection of the floor through conservationist techniques, “the direct sowing is one to them, but not the only one”, he clarified; the extraction of nutrients must be compensated with the incorporation of fertilizers; to apply an integrated handling of plagues, to reduce the use of pesticides.

We cannot make a modern agriculture without agrichemicals, but it is necessary to use them well”, he said; to reduce the fossil fuel use and to protect the superficial and underground sources of water. “Everything inside clear game rules and of protection of the rights of ownership”, he clarified.Â

In the same syntony, the meteorologist Eduardo Sierra exhorted to “pay attention” to the climatic changes that can affect to the agroindustry, but he questioned some “very exaggerated versions” that predict a high increase of the level of the sea, intense droughts and other cataclysms.Â

“In the last years the global heating seems to have stopped a little. Now it is lowering or at least it is stable, what marks a deceleration of the process. The natural processes cannot be lineal”, he indicated during his dissertation in the Marriott Plaza Hotel. He assured that in a scenario of good international prices, low inputs and good internal policies, the climatic changes that would take place in the next years would not have such a serious effect, although he advised to pay attention to them. Especially to the decrease of the rains in the west of the country. The director of the Master in Agricultural Meteorology of the UBA indicated that in the last campaign the decrease of the surfaces sowed with wheat, corn and sunflower was quite important because of the reduction of the volume of rains that is taking place on the extreme west. “We have to adapt to this and a process is required. If we don’t get ready a serious problem can be initiated. The advantage of paying attention to these processes of climatic change is to give them their true dimension. The temperature won’t go up 14 grades, the pampeana region won’t flood. But we are in front of a decrease of rains that is subtracting arable surface from us”, he highlighted.Â

Alejandro Rollán- special correspondent to Buenos AiresÂ

Source: La Voz

ONE OF THE SPEAKERS. Alperovich was exultant after the President and De Vido announced in Buenos Aires the validity of the program. DYN Â

The national Government regulated the laws that propitiate the incorporation of alcohol to the fuels in the country starting from 2010. The minister De Vido said that the biofuels production implies the creation of at least 4.000 new jobs.Â

The numbersÂ

500 million dollars will demand the investments to produce 300.000 m3 of ethanol annually in the country from 2010.Â

200 million dollars will be necessary in order for Tucumán to elaborate 190.000 cubic meters of ethanol per year and for Salta and Jujuy to produce 110.000 m3.Â
300 million dollars will be destined to the provinces of the NEA that will manufacture 310.000 m3 of ethanol annually.Â

20 percent of the total demand of bioethanol will be contributed by the sugarcane industry and the regional PyMEs, according to De Vido. I guaranteed them “a reasonable profitability.” Â

BUENOS AIRES. – The national Government announced yesterday measures for the bioethanol production starting from the sugarcane that will benefit to the regional economies of the NOA. In an act headed by president Cristina Kirchner, in rooms of the Ministry of Economy, the minister of Federal Planning, Julio de Vido, informed that the program implies to activate private investments superior to the U$S 500 millions and the creation of at least 4.000 new jobs in the region. The governors of the NOA and of the NEA, national officials, managers and union representatives of the sector were present.Â
It is about measures adjusted to Law 26.093 that established the promotion régime to produce biofuels in the country, since from the year 2010 the naphthas will be marketed with at least a 5% mixture with bioethanol, and the gasoil with a similar proportion of biodiesel. Law 26.334 established then the promotion régime to produce bioethanol for the internal market supply and the generation of surpluses for export by means of the formation of chains of value integrating sugarcane and sugar refineries producers.Â
De Vido pointed out that the price of the bioethanol, independently of the utilized raw material, “will be the big between a price related to cost plus profitability and the price of the super naphtha at refinery exit”. He made clear that every year the costs of the industry will be revised to maintain up-to-date its evolution, with what a reasonable profitability will be guaranteed to the whole chain. The minister also referred that the technical specifications that the bioethanol will have to fulfill for its mixture were agreed among producers, the Chamber of the Petroleum Industry and the Association of Automobile Factories.Â

He sustained that the bioethanol production “promotes the energy efficiency, reduces the emission of hothouse effect gases, and will also redound in more incomes for the counties of the NOA and NEA, bigger fiscal incomes for the national State.”Â

Among the present authorities that yesterday participated of the act were, besides De Vido and the minister of Interior, Florencio Randazzo, the governors of Tucumán, José Alperovich; of Chaco, Jorge Capitanich; of Formosa, Gildo Insfrán, and of Jujuy, Walter Barrionuevo.Â

Vice governor of Salta, Andrés Zotto; the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Fellner; the secretary of Agriculture, Carlos Cheppi, and the presidents of the Unión Industrial Argentina, Juan Carlos Lascurain, of the Centro Azucarero Argentino, Fernando Nebbia; of the Centro Azucarero Regional de Tucumán (CART), Julio Colombres; of the Centro Azucarero Regional del Norte Argentino, Federico Nicholson, and of the Unión Cañeros Independientes de Tucumán (UCIT), Sergio Fara, as well as the general associate secretary of Fotia, Andrés Galván, were present among others. (DyN – Télam – Especial)Â

Source:Â La Gaceta