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Corrientes
Severance payments reached employees on the Litoral corridor at General Belgrano Bridge, Riachuelo and Ituzaingó. The new contracts provide for greater automation, but private concessionaires have not said how many current workers they will hire.
Santiago del Estero
The governor brought ministers, secretaries, undersecretaries and directors together at Government House to assess management priorities. The agenda covered flood works, professional agreements, internal controls, technical teams and territorial programs, without announcing new laws or appropriations.
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.
Tucumán
Alejandra Pistagnesi argued that a practice historically integrated into the production system became a limitation in the face of markets demanding sustainability. Their proposal calls for a fire-free transition, although it does not detail timelines, instruments, or costs.
Buenos Aires
Sandra D'Agostino defended the Buenos Aires data center and criticized the Nation for concentrating public information in private services. The official warned about technological dependency, legal jurisdiction, and control of sensitive data, and linked that discussion to the development of sovereign artificial intelligence.
Formosa
A creativity and innovation workshop at Formosa's Science and Technology Hub paired young developers with five companies to turn real production problems into software. The project belongs to the 2026 Industrial Competitiveness Programme.
Río Negro
Luis Caputo authorized a US$60 million IDB loan to integrate Río Negro's 36 hospitals and 191 primary care centers. Alberto Weretilneck also received an expected timetable for a second US$85 million loan for irrigation, rural electrification and emergency prevention.
Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands
A World Bank report questioned Tierra del Fuego's promotional regime over its fiscal cost, limited productive gains and lack of a clear transition for the industrial scheme.
Mendoza
The province aims to attract software, artificial intelligence, fintech and exportable service companies through a framework designed to reduce regulatory and administrative barriers.
Opinion
Joel Flores, Director of Corporate Accounts at Zoho Corporation
World
A private report positions Brazil as the winner of the new regional automotive race: it has around USD 34 billion in announced investments through 2033, compared with about USD 2 billion in Argentina. The gap reshapes jobs, suppliers, technology and industrial power in Mercosur.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
A draft resolution filed in the Chamber of Deputies and signed by the six national lawmakers from the UCR demands that the government speed up implementation of the accusatory system in Buenos Aires City. The bloc warns that further delays affect access to justice and weaken constitutional guarantees.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
The Córdoba lawmaker met in Córdoba with the Buenos Aires City leader and they agreed on building an opposition proposal centred on federalism, production, work, education, science and technology. The move belongs to a Peronist path that still has no single candidacy.
National
Argentina's National Atomic Energy Commission became the centre of a conflict after around one hundred workers were dismissed. The protest included the occupation of the central headquarters and a Gendarmerie repression.
National
The national deputies' bloc criticised the move toward a new nuclear scheme with private participation while denouncing the paralysis of CAREM, underfunding of the CNEA and dismissals of qualified personnel.
Mendoza
The bill presented by Mercedes Rus seeks to protect the state's digital infrastructure and essential public services through unified rules, permanent monitoring and incident-response protocols.
