News of mayor

La Matanza Mayor Fernando Espinoza to stand trial for sexual assault

25-03-2025 17:26 Ex-mayor of La Matanza accused of sexually assaulting his private secretary in May 2021; Judge rejects defence team’s request for dismissal.

CITY

Línea F – City Hall unveils plan for new Subte underground line

28-02-2025 09:52 Buenos Aires City Mayor Jorge Macri unveils plans for capital's first new subway line in a quarter century; New 'Línea F' route will have 11 stops, connecting Barracas and Palermo.

POLITICS

Rodríguez Larreta asks Milei to tone down rhetoric, stop ‘hate messages’

27-11-2024 11:59 Former City mayor tells President: "You were elected to govern, not share hate messages"; Report highlights “violent speech,” describing it as threat to democratic coexistence.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Behind the Milei-Jorge Macri deal – and the influence of Mauricio

04-09-2024 12:09 Meetings between President Javier Milei and PRO party chairman Mauricio Macri have served to calm tempers and put an administration which had become entangled back on track.

by Pablo Varela

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Javier Milei and Jorge Macri seal deal transferring 31 bus lines to City

04-09-2024 12:02 Mayor confirms that there will be no fare increase despite the loss of national subsidies after signing deal formalising transfer control of more than 30 bus lines to Buenos Aires City government.

POLITICS

Jorge Macri sworn in as new mayor of Buenos Aires City

07-12-2023 18:26 PRO leader, who succeeds Horacio Rodríguez Larreta in the post, has his Cabinet ready and formally begins work on Sunday; Inauguration means that opposition party extends its control of City Hall into a fifth administration.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: ‘PRO today is allying itself with an extreme rightist’

11-11-2023 04:23 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta on his PASO primary defeat, the future of Juntos por el Cambio, Macri and Bullrich’s decision to back Milei and what happens after December 10.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2023: PREVIEW

Election 2023: Not just a presidential vote

21-10-2023 05:57 No less than 18 of the 23 provinces have already voted with Corrientes and Santiago del Estero not renewing their governors until 2025. But the few remaining contests are far from minor – almost half the national electorate (or 48.39 percent, to be exact) between Buenos Aires City and Province, Catamarca and Entre Ríos.

by Michael Soltys

ELECTIONS 2023

Bullrich says Rodríguez Larreta will be Cabinet chief if elected

14-10-2023 07:58 Opposition coalition leader Patricia Bullrich announces that Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the rival she defeated in the Juntos por el Cambio primary, will be named as Cabinet chief if she is elected head of state.

Elections 2023

Cross attitudes and crossfire as Marra targeted in City mayoral debate

28-09-2023 17:01 Four candidates to be the next mayor of Buenos Aires City – Jorge Macri, Leandro Santoro, Ramiro Marra and Vanina Viassi – take part in first televised debate; Libertarian draws eye with aggressive approach and strange comments.

ELECTION 2023

Twelve candidates battling for votes in City Hall mayoral race

10-08-2023 07:06 More than 2,500,000 people are eligible to vote in the nation’s capital this Sunday for primary elections with two types of ballots. Dozen hopefuls in race to succeed City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.

ECONOMIC CRISIS

Poverty bites in the Conurbano, but demands go beyond economic

09-08-2023 10:43 Argentina’s economic crisis spares no-one in Greater Buenos Aires. The youngest are the hardest hit. Across the Conurbano, demands are high, but local campaigners say the problems run deeper than soaring prices.

by Ludmila Di Grande

News of mayor

La Matanza Mayor Fernando Espinoza to stand trial for sexual assault

Línea F – City Hall unveils plan for new Subte underground line

Rodríguez Larreta asks Milei to tone down rhetoric, stop ‘hate messages’

Behind the Milei-Jorge Macri deal – and the influence of Mauricio

Javier Milei and Jorge Macri seal deal transferring 31 bus lines to City

Jorge Macri sworn in as new mayor of Buenos Aires City

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: ‘PRO today is allying itself with an extreme rightist’

Election 2023: Not just a presidential vote

Bullrich says Rodríguez Larreta will be Cabinet chief if elected

Cross attitudes and crossfire as Marra targeted in City mayoral debate

Twelve candidates battling for votes in City Hall mayoral race

Poverty bites in the Conurbano, but demands go beyond economic

The secrets of Leonardo Scatturice, Milei’s lobbyist in Washington

'Welcome to hell': freed migrants tell of horrors in Salvadoran jail

Argentine policeman punished for letting detainees work at his wedding

World’s ‘precarious’ trade backdrop is hurting growth, IMF says

Colombian ex-president Uribe guilty of witness tampering

Mar del Plata: encontraron una bolsa con inscripciones chinas en el mar a más de 1.200 metros de profundidad

Alerta de tsunami en Chile, Ecuador y Perú por sismo de 8,8 en Rusia: ¿cuánto demora en llegar una ola tras un terremoto?

Cúneo Libarona le ofreció sus contactos judiciales, políticos y mediáticos a un exespía americano y la oposición exige su renuncia

Histórico terremoto de magnitud 8,7 en Rusia provocó alertas de tsunami, inundaciones y evacuaciones masivas

El CONICET explora el fondo del océano: la expedición Talud Continental IV revela un mundo desconocido frente a nuestras costas