Cardenal Samoré international card will remain closed

The Cardenal Samoré international pbad will remain closed. Today, at the last minute, engineers working on site will make an estimate for the extension of the work.

An avalanche of mud, sediment and trees on the Chilean Highway 215 in the Samoré Pbad, following the wind and rain storm that hit the mountain range, completely blocked border transit .

The detachment occurred at kilometer 107 of Highway 215, about 10 kilometers west of the international border. Yesterday, I worked on the site of Vialidad de Chile, which maintained direct communication with the Argentine authorities.

As indicated in detail, once the work is completed, it will be necessary to perform several tests with "heavy trucks". "Above, the avalanche has devastated a sewer, so we will have to do everything for the best," they added.

The Minister of Public Works of Chile, Juan Andrés Fountain, went yesterday in the lake region of the neighboring country and estimated that the clearance of the route would take about 12 hours. However, they now consider that this term could be extended.

"Yesterday, it continued to rain all afternoon, in fact, one of our patrols went to the place around 9 pm and said it was still raining hard. that work will continue a few days, "said the gendarmerie.