Carta al Presidente Macri

[AFA Buenos Aires]

   26 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2018
    
   > Estimada/o colega:
>
>       Desde la Asociación Física Argentina le solicitamos apoyar la  
> siguiente declaración de científicos en el exterior denunciando el  
> estado de crisis en que está sumida la ciencia argentina. A  
> continuación se reproduce una breve carta que describe los  
> acontecimientos y le agradeceríamos que apoye la iniciativa firmando  
> esta carta que está circulando entre la comunidad científica y  
> académica internacional.
>
>       Si está de acuerdo con apoyar la niciativa simplemente envíe  
> un correo electrónico con sus datos filiatorios a:  
> cienciaenargentina en gmail.com para ser incluida/o en un listado de  
> firmantes.
>
>       Muchas gracias por su apoyo.
>
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>       /TO THE PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA MAURICIO MACRI AND THE  
> ARGENTINE AUTHORITIES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY/
>
>       /After 12 years of continuous growth and expansion (2003-2015)  
> the science and technology system of Argentina is collapsing due to  
> budget cuts, personnel reductions, breach of assumed commitments in  
> research grants, international cooperation and serious restrictions  
> imposed by the current government. These policies, which include  
> abandoning of the much-needed plans for infrastructure improvement  
> and new constructions, not only affect the National Research Council  
> (CONICET) and the National Agency for the Promotion of Science and  
> Technology (ANPCYT), but also the National Universities./
>
>       /CONICET is on the verge of paralysis. The survival of this  
> organism founded half a century ago by Nobel laureate Bernardo  
> Houssay and that employs ten thousand investigators, a similar  
> number of PhD and postdoctoral fellows and nearly three thousand  
> technicians is at great risk./
>
>       /The meager budgets received by the more than 250 research  
> institutes distributed all over the country, are now insufficient to  
> pay service bills, guarantee cleaning and safety of facilities or to  
> repair and maintain basic scientific equipment./
>
>       /It should also be noticed that more than a 4-fold devaluation  
> of the Argentine currency (from 9 pesos per US$ in December 2015 to  
> near 40 pesos per US$ today) has greatly hindered the purchase power  
> of the research grants, set in pesos, which dramatically affects  
> experimental and field-research groups in which imported reagents  
> and equipment are crucial./
>
>       /In only two years of the new government, the salaries of the  
> researchers and scholars became the lowest of the geographical  
> region. With monthly stipends lower than 24 thousand pesos for  
> postdoctoral fellows (US$ 600), barely higher salaries for young  
> researchers and with a de-hierarchized scale for more senior  
> researchers, a new exodus of highly trained scientists is foreseen.  
> This is also stimulated by the sharp reduction in the yearly number  
> of vacancies available in the CONICET for new young investigators  
> that in 2016 dropped abruptly from 900 to 450./
>
>       /To complete this dark panorama, the Ministry of Science has  
> been recently degraded to a secretary of the Ministry of Education.  
> This political decision, with a great negative symbolic burden,  
> reveals how little the current administration cares about science  
> and technology./
>
>       /Argentine scientists have raised a flag in defense of science  
> and technology in the country. The budget decrease for the sector,  
> driven by the adjustment policies imposed by a recent agreement  
> between your government and the International Monetary Fund, will  
> mark further setbacks that will have a direct impact on society./
>
>       /We urge the government of Argentina to revert these policies  
> to preserve a scientific and technological system that has been a  
> leader in Latin America and to prevent an imminent exodus of  
> scientists. It would seem obvious to explain the importance of  
> scientific and technological research for any country and how  
> technological dependence produces economic, political and cultural  
> dependence. The State is the driving force necessary to support and  
> develop large-scale public projects aimed at solving strategic,  
> social and economic needs./
>
>       /If urgent measures are not taken, the deterioration will  
> cause the dissolution of research groups, the paralysis of very  
> valuable instruments and the exodus of scientists, thus squandering  
> the investment that Argentina has made over many years. /
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