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Buenos Aires
The deputy questioned that users pay the fuel tax and also face new fees on deteriorated routes. She announced that she will seek to extend a collective injunction to demand national investments in Misiones and other provinces of the corridor.
Salta
The Salta governor criticized federal delays in addressing immediate needs. He defended electricity subsidies for hot regions, called for objective criteria and warned that provinces cannot keep taking over road maintenance, medicines and teacher incentives.
Santa Cruz
The chambers of operators and supplier companies defined a common agenda to improve the integration of Santa Cruz firms. The plan includes anticipating demands, reinforcing sectoral communication, and seeking financing tools for SMEs.
Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands
Daniel Rivarola reported four terminations without cause in Río Grande and one in Tolhuin. Local managers attributed the move to restructuring amid falling sales, while the union said the retail sector has already recorded more than 82 layoffs this year.
Santa Fe
The wholesale corridor had gone through the pandemic with almost full occupancy, but between December and June it went from 5,1% to 10,2% of vacant storefronts. The city reached 12,5%, while peatonal Córdoba rose from 9,2% to 17,2% in the same period.
Catamarca
The shutters multiplied in Peatonal Rivadavia and around Plaza 25 de Mayo. Merchants, fair vendors, and council members discuss rents, services, informality, and permits, but the available information does not provide a consolidated count of the businesses that stopped operating.
Corrientes
Before the governors' summit in Posadas, the Corrientes leader highlighted cooperation with Hugo Passalacqua on tariffs, infrastructure, and regional corridors. He also stated that potential mining investors gave a favorable evaluation, although procedures still remain, and he did not report companies, areas, minerals, or schedule.
Santa Cruz
Consejo Agrario Provincial and the agricultural school of Gobernador Gregores will evaluate oat and alfalfa pellets in sheep. The trial will measure weight, productive response, and costs before defining economic usefulness and a possible larger scale.
Mendoza
The Mendoza lawmaker, who left La Libertad Avanza and joined Provincias Unidas, said she was disappointed with the president. She also sought information on the fuel tax, criticized the condition of national routes 7 and 40, and opposed adding tolls without clarifying how those funds were used.
Chaco
The Chaco federation stated that the CAME indicator measures local retail stores and not total consumption or digital platform billing. The entity affirmed that the traditional contraction and the growth of e-commerce can coexist because they correspond to different universes.
Chubut
The UNPSJB Economics Observatory compared the cessations with 123 new permits, although more than seven in ten were renewals or changes involving existing businesses. Sales fell between 15% and 29% in the first half of the year, increasing uncertainty.
Río Negro
The demonstration outside Intecnus challenged the layoffs and restructuring at the Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Eight people were reinstated, but political and scientific representatives warn about 20 Bariloche families, nearly 300 contract workers and the continuity of 379 CONICET postdoctoral researchers.
Jujuy
The Electoral Board approved Generación Valiente and excluded Celeste y Blanca, finding that it rebuilt its slate after the deadline. Carlos de Aparici moved toward the party presidency and Carolina Moisés toward leadership of the Provincial Congress, but the challenge reached the federal courts.
Catamarca
The reform passed the Senate and seeks to authorize the provincial company to transfer, assign or encumber more than 450 mining properties. The bill adapts its legal form to the national framework and adds transparency duties, but it still has to complete the legislative process.
Santiago del Estero
The alliance led by Gerardo Zamora won every mayoralty and captured La Banda for the first time in a local election. It received 66% province-wide, turnout exceeded 70%, and the opposition was fragmented in the main cities.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
The free activity will take place on 19 of August at Villa Soldati and requires prior registration. The one-hour tour includes soil and hydroponic gardens, nurseries, composting, wetland, native species, solar panels, wind turbines, and the environmental laboratory of CIFA.
