News of works

Obelisk gets an upgrade: Work begins on new lift, viewing platform

11-10-2024 07:28 Eight-month City Hall-led project to install staircase and elevator to help locals and tourists get to the top of Buenos Aires’ most famous landmark gets underway.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Milei moves to replace previous government’s plan for public works

18-06-2024 16:14 Executive Branch draws up guidelines to review ongoing works and assess their continuity and control; Plan put in place by previous government, led by Alberto Fernández, to be ended.

EDITORIAL

Single digit should not mean single issue

18-05-2024 06:13 Single-digit inflation relieves the poor more than anybody but comes at a price – must they also be the ones to pay it?

ECONOMY

Blaming Milei for woes, Argentina’s Clisa asks for debt leniency

10-02-2024 09:30 As one of Argentina’s largest public works companies runs out of cash and asks investors for leniency, it’s pointing the blame squarely at Javier Milei.

PROTEST AGAINST THE FUTURE?

Government ‘protests’ rivals' proposed policies with public works ‘shutdown’

14-09-2023 16:56 Public Works Minister Gabriel Katopodis on Wednesday headed assemblies of construction workers with the aim of "creating awareness" as to the potential post-election changes which the ruling coalition’s rivals would implement in the sector.

‘Vialidad’ graft trial

Court ruling: Fernández de Kirchner favoured Báez in a ‘criminal plan’

09-03-2023 23:42 Judges from Federal Oral Court number 2 release 1,600-page ruling outlining grounds on which it sentenced Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to six years in prison in the ‘Vialidad’ public works graft case.