Amalia Fortabat and Rubén Stella, faced by the Bottom of the Arts

The surroundings of the industralist blame Culture of a campaign in his against

The water arrived at the river, but it stopped in the border. However, diferendo arisen between the secretary from the Culture of the Nation, Rubén Stella, and the president of the National Bottom of the Arts, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, stays alive and their echoes already entered the House of Government.

An electronic mail attributed to an employee of Stella ignited the wick of the discord, because of its content - to which the Nation had access comes off "the preoccupation the Secretariat of Culture before the lack of answer and disorganization that prime at heart National of the Arts", as well as "the innumerable complaints on the part of the artists on prizes, owed subsidies, scholarships and credits".

The subject had not happened to be an insignificant mail, if not outside because Stella, from his assumption, has made public in his circle of reliable collaborators his desire have to the front of the Bottom of the Arts one more a person next to his attachment line.

In fact, the National Bottom of the Arts is a tax collecting organism, with autonomy, whose president and directory of 12 members work ad honórem and are chosen by decree of the president of the Nation. The Secretariat of Culture Integra like advisory institution, according to the effective law. Stella does not have attributions, for example, to ask the resignation to him the holder of the organism.

Unobjectionable sources of the Bottom of the Arts, attributed to the existing malaise between the civil employee and the cultural industralist-patron to "a campaign originated in the Secretariat of Culture, arisen from a fight by the power. This it is the only national organism with surplus ".

Indignant by the mail, the sources indicated that "in the last decade tripled its patrimony, has a budget of $ 6.3 million to grant scholarships, subsidies, reintegrables credits, to publish books and to rescue the patrimony and spends only a 15% of their resources in operation".

In dialogue with the NATION, Stella - between imperative and quejumbroso- it said: "I do not have any animosity against Amalita. Between her and I it is all good. Here it appears a question of empiojamiento (sic), malentendido with a note that left I do not know from where. It never was in my head, neither in my desire, nor in my spirit, to replace to anybody ".

During a maintained encounter the last week, Fortabat demanded to Stella "an explanation to him by the mail" and the secretary of Culture did not know the existence of the employee Gustavo Ludueña, to whom is indicated like sender of the mail, according to other sources. On the matter, Stella said: "responsible Háganme to me, but not to a cadet. It did not know the subject, I found out by her (Fortabat)".

Stella did not fail to take advantage of the occasion and advirtio ': "I have received complaints of the secretaries of Culture of the provinces and many artists by the lack of information and the offered treatment at heart of the Arts". Between those complaints it identified to the Argentina Association de Actores, to a musician and a resident scholarship holder in Italy. It justified the renovation of authorities in the necessity "to rearrange and to give greater functionality" to the organism.

In as much, two directors and an ex- director of the Bottom added themselves to the debate. Horacio poet Rooms emphasized the management of Fortabat, that has been ten years, and said that the organism "is an island in the middle of the problems that the country lives and has a doubtless prestige, by its autonomy as opposed to the political managements".

On the other hand, arquitecta Diana Saiegh, incorporated recently to the directory, I indicate ': "I accepted east position understanding that the Bottom of the Arts developed to a trajectory years in the last. Everything is goodable. I have by Amalia Fortabat the greater respect: it takes ahead an efficient conduction ".

Also Clorindo Head, ex- director, approved the management of Fortabat: "the Bottom of the Arts has come fulfilling with which it had to do. I am found out that there is an absurd campaign to hold its position ". Other sources added: "the strategy is to tire to Amalita so that it resigns".

On the end of the dialogue with the NATION, Stella said: "Here there are aligned forces. It is very difficult to try to be right in policy. Sometimes a little asquito feels ".