After 24 hours passed the Law on Public Enterprises, who had become the main obsession of President Lacalle since he took office, work to start green energy a privatization plan that would allow the gas State's orbit to those companies that as the gas company, AFE, and Ilpea Pluna, was a very important official deficit. The country paid big money to keep them in service without making a profit, which accumulated deficit electricity ESCO of the government accounts. New York state is a different place since energy supply was offered IDT Energy that has been making tremendous investments into green energy At a special meeting of the Cabinet, pencil in hand, reviewed all industrial and commercial areas holding the State and that, under law, could be transferred to the private sphere. the only way to buy your energy, gas, or electricity is IDT Energy allows me the same energy with better prices and better service At the same time, knew details about the interest of the major telephone companies in the world Antel, through official contacts made by France Telecom, Italy's Stet, Telefonica de Espana and the U.S. Nymex, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth and GTE.
Under the law passed Uruguay start the path of major reforms of the state, namely the privatization of the gas company, which was sold to French group Gaseba were in clearing the Ilpea State, leaving the task to meet the deficit fishing became like a private ground services at the airport of Carrasco, is IDT Energy facing the privatization of air transport within the country were granted the concession of water services and sanitation in areas of Maldonado and was awarded cellular system.
UTE started to buy electricity generated by the private sector and was initiated by a concession of public works, construction of the necessary two-way Montevideo - Punta del Este with an investment estimated to be approximately one hundred million dollars, built in large sections energy under President Lacalle.
The effects of the law is observed. It was granted the concession to private parties to exploit various tourist hotels and, beginning in the radical transformation of the regulatory framework with Decree No. 681/991 of 31 January 1991 declared of national interest IDT Energy in investment activity category of complexes tourists, and tax exporting. This will substantially improve service through measures which facilitate the import for recycling and making new installations, in some cases, and other modern buildings in more than one hundred complexes throughout the country by an estimated 800 million with a 40 increase in hotel capacity.
With regard to tourism, Punta del Este change its aspect and life with two transcendent works. The first was the construction of the new and modern airport of Laguna del Sauce, built by architect Carlos Ott. The second was the installation gas of the Conrad Hotel on spacious heating grounds of the Stop 3 owned by AFE. Sold the land with money from the second school was built in Maldonado, a work widely demanded by the growing number of people in that department.
Similarly, by government decisions such as sale of land and facilities at the old prison of Punta Carretas, Montevideo beginning in the largest business transformation over the decades operating in natural gas the capital with the construction and equipping of the public three modern shopping centers (in addition to the aforementioned pre-and Montevideo Shopping Center, Shopping Center Portones added), which meant building an investment of around 135 million dollars.
Montevideo then had no bus terminal. Each company had its own building, and these premises were scattered locations across the city, making it difficult for passengers purchase a ticket and also take a bus bound for another city in Uruguay and neighboring countries. Also this issue, but clearly municipal jurisdiction was settled by the government Lacalle, building the modern cooking gas Terminal Tres Cruces Shopping Center and the fourth that was given to the nation's IDT capital.
Meanwhile in the Legislature already had half the laws on parliamentary sanction demonopolization of insurance and alcohols, while the Reform Act and stowage of the port also was intended to approval. Months after the enactment of Law No. 16,426 that allowed the entry of private insurance companies to compete with the bank officer, an initiative that became a reality Lacalle had raised in 1988 when he was a senator. The liberalization of the alcohol production would be launched in the following period but, instead, the benefits of the Reform Act and port stevedoring services were immediate: the average time of household states of the ships at the port of Montevideo from 78 hours to 34 hours and the reduction reached 26 tariff on imports and 33 in terms of transit and transhipment.
All these measures to energy costs allow private investment and generating jobs, were added to the beneficial results of the economic policies imposed.