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RADIO NACIONAL DE CORRIENTES
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Radio Nacional de Corrientes, la voz de Occidentia Libre. Estamos donde tu estas.
Transmitindo desde Callao, Districto Capital, Estados Unidos de Corrientes
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Radio Nacional de Corrientes, la voz de Occidentia Libre. Estamos donde tu estas.
Transmitindo desde Callao, Districto Capital, Estados Unidos de Corrientes
Soledad Rubio: Buenaaaaaas Nocheeeeeees, Corrienteeeeees! You just tuned in to Radio Nacional, the voice of Free Occidentia. My name is Soledad Rubio and with me you will enjoy the latest news, the best music and great interviews with my special guests. This is Tropical Evenings on Radio Nacional, making you enjoy the evenings around the Equator. While I tried my best in the past years to make your evening special, this evening is truly one to mark on your calendars, for we have a very special guest. I will not spoil it, as I want you all to still enjoy some music and then the evening news, but I will say that it will be extremely worthwhile for all you listeners around the Tiburanosphere all-over the world. But before that, some music, and the evening news.
*Commercial Break*
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ENA, a whole identity behind just three letters. An entire culture behind three symbols. ENA, Empresa Nacional de Automoviles, an auto culture, a culture of quality, a culture of respect for the customer and for ourselves, the culture of Corrientes! This Christmas, ENA proudly launches a new motorization for the Selva, Cumana and Baltra models, a hybrid one! So we can proudly add, a culture of ecology too, behind our three letters.
*Commercial Break Ends*
Soledad Rubio: We are back! You are listening to Tropical Evenings on Radio Nacional. Those are today's main news.
*Male voice takes over*
The superconductor factory complex in Cartagena is set to begin operating starting the 7th of December. TSC, the biggest semiconductor producing company in the world, operating from Tianlong has invested huge sums into Corrientes, making use of the smaller local wages than in Tianlong, but also, of the high quality of education in the United States, ensuring that the labour force in Corrientes is prepared. In the contract signed between President Herrera and the Tianese, the latter promised to invest about 75 billion EM in the span of three years to develop a local semi-conductor industry. The huge complex will begin operating on the 7th, initially with 700 employees, but will be completely ready to function at full efficiency in two years, when it will fully employ about 5,000 people in highly paid jobs. The signing of the contract was a huge win for President Pedro Herrera, who managed to convince the Tianese to bring the money into Corrientes, rather than the CETO members such as Radilo, Gran Occidentia or San Jose.
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The search for the Inteflug flight 2796 from Wien to Fortaleza is set to continue. The Ostmarker Authorities from Sudinsel are cooperating with the Correntine Coastal Guard and Flight Authority to try and discover what happened with the plane. The Coastal Guard reached the point where the plane was last observed on the radar, and will employ submarines to check the bottom of the sea for remnants of the wreckage. Theories already abound and go from the pilots losing control of the plane because of mechanical damage to a terrorist hijacking attempt, many Correntines pointing towards the Indigenist Communists in Los Altos. The authorities requested people to refrain from spreading rumours while the investigation is ongoing.
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Soledad Rubio: It's shocking when you think of it, that such tragedies still happen. To be honest, what hit me the most with this accident is how surprising such tragedies are, and how they take place right when you don't think of it at all. But now, let's allow the authorities to continue their search and applaud the cooperation between Corrientes and Ostmark, for the sake of the victims' families and for the posterity. Now, the time for the evening interview has arrives and I am very happy and proud to announce the guest that has blessed me with her presence. A woman that I've seen as a model in the last years and whom has shown that she loves all Correntines, and is ready to fight to the death for us. This evening's interviewee is.... *drumroll* MARISSA DE HERRERA! *gong sound* *laughter* Your excellency, I am extremely proud of having you with me and so happy that you accepted to come to Radio Nacional for a live interview.
Marissa de Herrera: Thank you for having me, and good evening to all our listeners, Correntinos and many more! It would be very bad if we reach a point where the MNR leadership or the presidency wouldn't cooperate with Radio Nacional.
Soledad Rubio: Your excellency, I want to keep this short and concise so I will jump right in. Can you tell the listeners who feel that the CTT scandal is just too complicated to closely follow, what happened and what was the solution to it all? Also, for us, urban listeners who sometimes never even heard of it, can you also explain to us what the CTT was?
Marissa de Herrera: The CTT was the Land Tenure Corporation. It was a state owned company that took under its administration all land plots that were not worked or whose concessions expired and nationalized them. It then divided them into plots suitable for subsistence agriculture and then rented the plots to farmers at low prices, aiding landless workers in pretty much surviving. It was created in 1953, and functioned quite decently until the early 2000s, when the quality of services began to suffer. Since the 1980s, it also provided farmers with agriculture equipment which they again, could rent at low prices, but because in the past 10 to 15 years, much of the maintenance and replacement of worn equipment was sub-let to pretty much ghost companies, the CTT ended up running into huge debt and then it defaulted. The big problem was that it defaulted because of a corruption scandal. This meant that the Ministry of Finance needed to investigate it and it meant that the CTT couldn't sign new contracts for lettings until the investigation was done, and that could mean a delay of a few months, which would destroy landless farmers as they would miss the chance to sow in the autumn and then they would have nothing to harvest in the summer. We decided to quickly act by disbanding the CTT and coming with an agrarian reform, where the farmers who let the land plots in the past 10 years would receive them for free.
Soledad Rubio: How many people would that be?
Marissa de Herrera: From what I've seen, it would be about 80% of the landless farmers who rented from the CTT, so about 20 million people. They were already allowed for a month or so to already start working on their land, and now we are just formalising the bureaucratic part.
Soledad Rubio: And what of the rest?
Marissa de Herrera: The size of agrarian land in Corrientes has risen dramatically since the CTT was created in the 1950s. That comes from deforestation of the Selva, or from confiscations or other elements, but the idea is, that we plan to create a new organisation, which will act in the same way, but will be much closer looked upon to ensure crises like this won't happen anymore, and we will allow farmers to continue to rent the land at very low prices so they can continue their lives. For every country on the globe, it is very important for the rural part of the country to be sound and healthy, because once you get a huge exodus because people can't stand living there anymore, they will flood the cities and that will create a vicious circle which will overwhelm the infrastructure, and pretty much throw the whole country into a collapse. That is something we cannot ever allow to happen. Not here in Corrientes, not anywhere in the world.
Soledad Rubio: I imagine this is where the Herrerist Organization of Labour comes to play.
Marissa de Herrera: Exactly. I created the Herrerist Organization of Labour when I was young and I just married Pedro as a charity organization. Back then, in 2007, we were trying to gain funds from the rich and aid the Landless workers. Nowadays you can imagine that the situation improved a lot. Not only for the country, but also for the Organization too.
Soledad Rubio: It's clear that with Pedro Herrera as president of Corrientes and you as First Lady, vice president and the chairwoman of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, the organization has a huge clout.
Marissa de Herrera: It has, and I am very happy that we can finally make a change. When Pedro joined the higher up circles of the MNR, I dedicated myself to aiding him and the more labour oriented faction within the Party, so to my shame, for many years, I allowed the organization to run on inertia, but I am back into it and I want to make sure that our projects go forward to that the Correntines can really feel in their daily lives the realities of the statistics, that Corrientes is currently at its peak of standard of living, economy, safety, quality of live, and we are still improving. We are extremely far away from the nations of Westernesse or the ones in western Gallo-Germania, but still, in the neighbourhood, let's say that Corrientes is a shining light. *laughs* But our projects are still very important. We work now to reform the CTT into something better, so we are trying to get funds to buy farm equipment. We also have a campaign to fully connect the people to electricity. Do you know, that around the lakes to the west, around Villa Tunari and in the Selva, you do end up with about 2 million people who still lack in electricity? We are planning to buy generators to aid extremely isolated communities in getting connected to power. And then there's also the state of the orphanages. We want to fully transform them so they look more human, not like the asylums from horror stories.
Soledad Rubio: You do work a whole lot. Doing government work, being a mother, heading the Organization and being very present in the social and political life of Corrientes, being known for your public meetings with the people. Who do you cope? Aren't you afraid it's too much?
Marissa de Herrera: It's actually the opposite. I'm afraid I'm not doing enough. Because I know that my time is limited, and I want to be sure that the Corrientes that exists when I die will be much better than the one I was born in. As you might know from the tabloid crazes of a few years ago, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I went through it all with chemo and all, and two years ago, I was happy that it went into remission. Very recently now, I found out that it came back, worse and it metastasized and its much more aggressive and it also spread out, so I don't really have that much time.
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*Commercial Break*
Sometimes, the heat can be just too much. No, crazy ideas like sitting in a bathtub with ice water all day, or trying to get inside a refrigerator are not the solution, they can even hurt you. We, at Soberana, came with a sane idea. A good one. A tasty one. Try a one of our beers, served ice cold. It can cool you down if you are on the sweltering streets of Callao or Rio Verde, in the rainforest in Sipe Sipe or on the tropical beaches of the Baltras. Try it! It's the best idea! Proudly brewed in Rio Verde.
ENA, a whole identity behind just three letters. An entire culture behind three symbols. ENA, Empresa Nacional de Automoviles, an auto culture, a culture of quality, a culture of respect for the customer and for ourselves, the culture of Corrientes! This Christmas, ENA proudly launches a new motorization for the Selva, Cumana and Baltra models, a hybrid one! So we can proudly add, a culture of ecology too, behind our three letters.
*Commercial Break Ends*
Soledad Rubio: We are back! You are listening to Tropical Evenings on Radio Nacional. Those are today's main news.
*Male voice takes over*
The superconductor factory complex in Cartagena is set to begin operating starting the 7th of December. TSC, the biggest semiconductor producing company in the world, operating from Tianlong has invested huge sums into Corrientes, making use of the smaller local wages than in Tianlong, but also, of the high quality of education in the United States, ensuring that the labour force in Corrientes is prepared. In the contract signed between President Herrera and the Tianese, the latter promised to invest about 75 billion EM in the span of three years to develop a local semi-conductor industry. The huge complex will begin operating on the 7th, initially with 700 employees, but will be completely ready to function at full efficiency in two years, when it will fully employ about 5,000 people in highly paid jobs. The signing of the contract was a huge win for President Pedro Herrera, who managed to convince the Tianese to bring the money into Corrientes, rather than the CETO members such as Radilo, Gran Occidentia or San Jose.
***
The search for the Inteflug flight 2796 from Wien to Fortaleza is set to continue. The Ostmarker Authorities from Sudinsel are cooperating with the Correntine Coastal Guard and Flight Authority to try and discover what happened with the plane. The Coastal Guard reached the point where the plane was last observed on the radar, and will employ submarines to check the bottom of the sea for remnants of the wreckage. Theories already abound and go from the pilots losing control of the plane because of mechanical damage to a terrorist hijacking attempt, many Correntines pointing towards the Indigenist Communists in Los Altos. The authorities requested people to refrain from spreading rumours while the investigation is ongoing.
***
Soledad Rubio: It's shocking when you think of it, that such tragedies still happen. To be honest, what hit me the most with this accident is how surprising such tragedies are, and how they take place right when you don't think of it at all. But now, let's allow the authorities to continue their search and applaud the cooperation between Corrientes and Ostmark, for the sake of the victims' families and for the posterity. Now, the time for the evening interview has arrives and I am very happy and proud to announce the guest that has blessed me with her presence. A woman that I've seen as a model in the last years and whom has shown that she loves all Correntines, and is ready to fight to the death for us. This evening's interviewee is.... *drumroll* MARISSA DE HERRERA! *gong sound* *laughter* Your excellency, I am extremely proud of having you with me and so happy that you accepted to come to Radio Nacional for a live interview.
Marissa de Herrera: Thank you for having me, and good evening to all our listeners, Correntinos and many more! It would be very bad if we reach a point where the MNR leadership or the presidency wouldn't cooperate with Radio Nacional.
Soledad Rubio: Your excellency, I want to keep this short and concise so I will jump right in. Can you tell the listeners who feel that the CTT scandal is just too complicated to closely follow, what happened and what was the solution to it all? Also, for us, urban listeners who sometimes never even heard of it, can you also explain to us what the CTT was?
Marissa de Herrera: The CTT was the Land Tenure Corporation. It was a state owned company that took under its administration all land plots that were not worked or whose concessions expired and nationalized them. It then divided them into plots suitable for subsistence agriculture and then rented the plots to farmers at low prices, aiding landless workers in pretty much surviving. It was created in 1953, and functioned quite decently until the early 2000s, when the quality of services began to suffer. Since the 1980s, it also provided farmers with agriculture equipment which they again, could rent at low prices, but because in the past 10 to 15 years, much of the maintenance and replacement of worn equipment was sub-let to pretty much ghost companies, the CTT ended up running into huge debt and then it defaulted. The big problem was that it defaulted because of a corruption scandal. This meant that the Ministry of Finance needed to investigate it and it meant that the CTT couldn't sign new contracts for lettings until the investigation was done, and that could mean a delay of a few months, which would destroy landless farmers as they would miss the chance to sow in the autumn and then they would have nothing to harvest in the summer. We decided to quickly act by disbanding the CTT and coming with an agrarian reform, where the farmers who let the land plots in the past 10 years would receive them for free.
Soledad Rubio: How many people would that be?
Marissa de Herrera: From what I've seen, it would be about 80% of the landless farmers who rented from the CTT, so about 20 million people. They were already allowed for a month or so to already start working on their land, and now we are just formalising the bureaucratic part.
Soledad Rubio: And what of the rest?
Marissa de Herrera: The size of agrarian land in Corrientes has risen dramatically since the CTT was created in the 1950s. That comes from deforestation of the Selva, or from confiscations or other elements, but the idea is, that we plan to create a new organisation, which will act in the same way, but will be much closer looked upon to ensure crises like this won't happen anymore, and we will allow farmers to continue to rent the land at very low prices so they can continue their lives. For every country on the globe, it is very important for the rural part of the country to be sound and healthy, because once you get a huge exodus because people can't stand living there anymore, they will flood the cities and that will create a vicious circle which will overwhelm the infrastructure, and pretty much throw the whole country into a collapse. That is something we cannot ever allow to happen. Not here in Corrientes, not anywhere in the world.
Soledad Rubio: I imagine this is where the Herrerist Organization of Labour comes to play.
Marissa de Herrera: Exactly. I created the Herrerist Organization of Labour when I was young and I just married Pedro as a charity organization. Back then, in 2007, we were trying to gain funds from the rich and aid the Landless workers. Nowadays you can imagine that the situation improved a lot. Not only for the country, but also for the Organization too.
Soledad Rubio: It's clear that with Pedro Herrera as president of Corrientes and you as First Lady, vice president and the chairwoman of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, the organization has a huge clout.
Marissa de Herrera: It has, and I am very happy that we can finally make a change. When Pedro joined the higher up circles of the MNR, I dedicated myself to aiding him and the more labour oriented faction within the Party, so to my shame, for many years, I allowed the organization to run on inertia, but I am back into it and I want to make sure that our projects go forward to that the Correntines can really feel in their daily lives the realities of the statistics, that Corrientes is currently at its peak of standard of living, economy, safety, quality of live, and we are still improving. We are extremely far away from the nations of Westernesse or the ones in western Gallo-Germania, but still, in the neighbourhood, let's say that Corrientes is a shining light. *laughs* But our projects are still very important. We work now to reform the CTT into something better, so we are trying to get funds to buy farm equipment. We also have a campaign to fully connect the people to electricity. Do you know, that around the lakes to the west, around Villa Tunari and in the Selva, you do end up with about 2 million people who still lack in electricity? We are planning to buy generators to aid extremely isolated communities in getting connected to power. And then there's also the state of the orphanages. We want to fully transform them so they look more human, not like the asylums from horror stories.
Soledad Rubio: You do work a whole lot. Doing government work, being a mother, heading the Organization and being very present in the social and political life of Corrientes, being known for your public meetings with the people. Who do you cope? Aren't you afraid it's too much?
Marissa de Herrera: It's actually the opposite. I'm afraid I'm not doing enough. Because I know that my time is limited, and I want to be sure that the Corrientes that exists when I die will be much better than the one I was born in. As you might know from the tabloid crazes of a few years ago, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I went through it all with chemo and all, and two years ago, I was happy that it went into remission. Very recently now, I found out that it came back, worse and it metastasized and its much more aggressive and it also spread out, so I don't really have that much time.
Soledad Rubio: You mean...
Marissa de Herrera: Yes, the time is much more limited than I ever thought I'd ever imagine. Hence why, I'm doing my best, working as much as I can before I won't be able anymore.
Soledad Rubio: So... it's *stuttering* extremely...
Marissa de Herrera: Yes, but I don't want to concentrate on that, I want to concentrate on our work on improving the lives of the people, of seeing my son and daughters finish their studies and so on. I don't want to give a timeline of when I expect it to become extremely bad, but just know that it can happen soon, so we are in a race against time.
Soledad Rubio: I... your excellency... thank you very much for your interview. I... want to say that you will always be welcome at Radio Nacional.
Marissa de Herrera: Thank you for having me, it has always been a pleasure!
Soledad Rubio: That was the evening interview, dear listeners. I will leave you with some music, before Tropical Evening continues.
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