Before departing on her first official visit to Cuba, President Dilma Rousseff spoke at a vital meeting for urban planning in the industrial city of Camaçari in Bahia (apparently this is her first presidential visit to the city). During her warm and good-natured address she congratulated the mayor Luiz Caetano and the municipal government on these desperately needed infrastructure improvements.
The gathering was to launch the plans for the rivitalisation of the river basin area, a project which is expected to cost R$ 280 million altogether. The programme is aimed to improve not just the main river of Camaçari but also many of its tributaries which have been badly degraded in recent years.
The whole vast improvement scheme is intended to impact positively on over 90,000 people in 19 local districts. Although most people will not need to be relocated it is unfortunately necessary that some homes along the river will need to be vacated. However the families concerned will be provided alternatives.
‘Dilma’ spoke with feeling about the affordable housing scheme Minha Casa, Minha Vida launched nationally and locally by the governments of her and her predecessor the popular ‘Lula’. She contrasted this sharply with what she saw as the failures of the twenty years or so before her PT-led coalition government came to power.
The President went on to explain that having a decent, secure home is a vitally important thing for every Brazilian family in Bahia as elsewhere. She said that a central orientation of her administration is to work towards maximising that right.
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