The national government once again came to the crossroads against a new media operation and firmly denied an editorial published by the newspaper “La Nación” that described the tender process for the Waterway as a “new failure”. Through the Official Response Office, fake news was exposed and demonstrated that the media's approach is not only incorrect, but it deliberately omits key technical data about
the process.The crossing is in line with what the Government itself warned in the last few hours, when it denounced an escalation of disinformation campaigns and operettas directed against libertarian management. In this context, the case of the Waterway is part of the same logic of installing unsupported stories
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One of the publisher's main arguments pointed to the number of bidders in the tender. However, the Executive pointed out that this point is directly false. As they explained, a technical report from UNCTAD —the United Nations agency that audited the process—determined that, given the requirements of the project, the maximum number of companies able to compete is up to four
.In this context, the submission of three offers by the world's leading dredgers does not represent a failure, but rather falls within the parameters expected at the international level.
