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Neuquén

ATE demands a raise above inflation in Neuquén wage talks

ATE and Neuquén's government enter their third wage meeting without agreement on the increase for roughly 68,000 public employees. The union rejects an inflation-only formula and wants an additional recovery component.

Santa Cruz

Arrears hit Santa Cruz and drive a $43 billion debt refinancing plan

A total of 31.2% of borrowers are behind on payments, the highest proportion in Patagonia. A government and Banco Santa Cruz plan has reached 3,500 active and retired public employees; since July, workers devoting at least 60% of income to debt may join.

Neuquén

Georgieva takes the IMF agenda to Vaca Muerta and focuses on energy-generated foreign currency

The IMF managing director will tour Loma Campana with YPF president Horacio Marín, the first visit by the institution's top authority to the Neuquén formation. The trip links hydrocarbon export potential with reserves, macroeconomic stability and the Fund's current program with Argentina.

Buenos Aires

Federal government withheld backing for a USD 270 million Greater La Plata sanitation loan

The Economy Ministry refused to authorize international financing for a plant serving La Plata, Berisso and Ensenada and told the province to use its own funds or restructure existing loans. Buenos Aires says the ARS 450 billion project would absorb much of its investment budget without external credit.

Neuquén

Vaca Muerta multiplies construction and exposes Añelo's urban limits

Neuquén city added more than 60,000 square meters of construction in the first quarter, while sector employers grew 9.2%. Añelo shows the other side of the boom: workers and projects arrive faster than housing, services and urban infrastructure expand.

Río Negro

San Matías pipeline links a US$1.3 billion investment to Vaca Muerta's export route

The project entered the RIGI program with a planned 472.5-kilometer pipeline between Tratayén and San Antonio Oeste. It will feed two floating liquefaction units in the San Matías Gulf and is designed to carry up to 28 million cubic meters per day.

Neuquén

Vaca Muerta keeps Neuquén among the few provinces creating private jobs

An IERAL report found that registered private employment fell 2.7% nationwide between 2023 and 2025, while Neuquén, Río Negro and Tucumán managed to grow.

Formosa

A worker in Formosa must work almost seven months to buy an iPhone, according to a national report

A Focus Market survey measures purchasing power in working hours. In Formosa, 1,162 hours (almost seven months) are needed to buy an iPhone, placing the province among those with the lowest purchasing capacity in the country.

Neuquén

Neuquén seeks to break oil hegemony with a 50,000-hectare irrigation plan

The province has tendered the executive project for the Productive Wind Corridor, which envisages an investment of more than US$1,000 million to irrigate more than 50,000 hectares in the Limay Medio region, with the aim of diversifying the economic matrix and reducing dependence on oil.

Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires City records a 17.3% drop in tax revenue since 2023

The end of the tax on LELIQs and the slowdown in consumption explain the fiscal decline in Buenos Aires, according to an IARAF report. Only the energy-producing provinces are growing in a landscape of contrasts.

Neuquén

Neuquén opens second-half wage talks with public-sector unions

The provincial government met with ATE, UNAVP and UPCN, heard sector-specific demands and agreed to resume wage talks on July 28.

Neuquén

Neuquén turns LNG into law and secures 30 years of stability for Vaca Muerta

The enactment of Law 3566 backs the agreement between the province and YPF to develop LNG, provide fiscal stability and expand Neuquén's gas export capacity.

Buenos Aires

Techint cut 150 contract workers at its Valentín Alsina pipe plant

Tenaris SIAT, part of Grupo Techint, terminated 150 contracts at its Valentín Alsina plant after losing two tenders linked to Vaca Muerta and Southern Energy's LNG project. The decision hits the country's only factory of this type of pipe.

Neuquén

More than 450 families in Junín de los Andes gain access to the power grid and street lighting

The province and municipality inaugurated the infrastructure for the 461 Lotes development, backed by an investment of more than 530 million pesos and including three transformer centres, 7,300 metres of power lines and 203 LED streetlights.