The Priority Road Infrastructure Law, through article 95, allows the executing units of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV) to award road infrastructure contracts with a maximum validity of 36 months from the entry into force of the regulations.
The article incorporates a special emergency bidding modality, aimed at reducing execution times and facilitating rapid interventions on roads, especially during the rainy season.
There is a list of at least 10 projects currently being executed under this mechanism.
A Guatevisión team traveled three of the sections between the CA-1 Oriente and CA-2 Oeste routes, starting at kilometer 38 of the CA-1 Oriente, which connects with Santa Elena Barillas. In this section, a total overhaul of 22.7 kilometers is contemplated, from the detour to Fraijanes to Villa Canales. He has already been hired and is about to start.
As a second point, we traveled to kilometer 144 of the CA-2 Oriente, precisely in the section that is located from Chiquimulilla to Jutiapa. This project has already been contracted and includes the recapping from kilometer 116, passing through the Las Margaritas bridge to the detour to Las Lisas.
Finally and always on the CA-2 Oriente, but now at kilometer 94, in Taxisco, Santa Rosa, the return from kilometer 93, in Taxisco, Santa Rosa, to kilometer 116 in the direction of Chiquimulilla is contemplated. The first tender was not awarded due to offers that did not comply with the bases, so a new process has already begun.
In addition to the three points we visited, there are seven other sections where recapping work is already planned:
- Aldea El Ingeniero, Chiquimula, towards Quetzaltepeque, on the CA-10.
- Río Hondo to the Gualán detour, in Zacapa, on the CA-9 North.
- Morazán, between El Progreso and Baja Verapaz, on CA-14.
- San Carlos Sija to Malacatancito, between Quetzaltenango and Huehuetenango, on the CA-1 Oeste.
- Escuintla to Siquinalá, on the CA-2 West.
- The Asintal towards Flores Costa Cuca and Coatepeque to Tilapa, between Retalhuleu, Quetzaltenango and San Marcos, on the CA-2 West.
- San Bartolo Aguas Calientes to Malacatancito, between Totonicapán and Huehuetenango, on the CA-1 West.
In a conversation broadcast by GuatevisiónJosé Ardón, executive director of the Construction Chamber, called to guarantee “the resources so that interventions can be carried out preventively. For example, months before the rainy season, instead of acting when the damage is already occurring.”
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