A report on Buenos Aires and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta

Our Lady of Buen Aire in front of the National Migration Department

Juan de Garay founding Buenos Aires in 1580. The initial settlement, founded by Pedro de Mendoza, had been abandoned since 1542.

Rodríguez Larreta inaugurating a housing complex

Aldus verthoont hem de stadt Buenos Ayrros geleegen in Rio de la Plata, painting by a Dutch sailor who anchored at the port around 1628.

Rodríguez Larreta with then-mayor Mauricio Macri and SBASE chief Juan Pablo Picardo on a 200 Series train

Emeric Essex Vidal, General view of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros, 1820. In this area now lies the Plaza San Martín.

Impression of the Buenos Aires Cathedral by Carlos Pellegrini, 1829.

Construction of the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on the 9 de Julio Avenue, 1936.

Catalinas Norte is an important business complex composed of nineteen commercial office buildings and occupied by numerous leading Argentine companies, foreign subsidiaries, and diplomatic offices. It is located in the Retiro and San Nicolás neighborhoods.

Satellite view of the Greater Buenos Aires area, and the Río de la Plata.

Heavy rain and thunderstorm in Plaza San Martin. Thunderstorms are usual during the summer.

The Buenos Aires City Hall in the right corner of the entrance to the Avenida de Mayo

Metropolitan Police of Buenos Aires City

The Immigrants' Hotel, constructed in 1906, received and assisted the thousands of immigrants arriving to the city. The hotel is now a National Museum.

Villa 31, a villa miseria in Buenos Aires

The Metropolitan Cathedral is the main Catholic church in the city.

The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, the main stock exchange and financial center of Argentina.

Headquarters of the National Bank of Argentina, the national bank and the largest in the country's banking sector.

Buenos Aires Bus, the city's tourist bus service. The official estimate is that the bus carries between 700 and 800 passengers per day, and has carried half a million passengers since its opening.

Monument to the Carta Magna and Four Regions of Argentina in the neighborhood of Palermo

The Centro Cultural Kirchner (Kirchner Cultural Center), located at the former Central Post Office, is the largest of Latin America.

Homage to Buenos Aires, a mural located at the Carlos Gardel station of the Buenos Aires Underground. It represents a typical scene from the city and several of its icons, such as singer Carlos Gardel, the Obelisco, the port, tango dancing and the Abasto market.

The interior of El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a celebrated bookstore located in the barrio of Recoleta.

Tango dancers during the World tango dance tournament.

A screening at Parque Centenario, as part of the 2011 edition of BAFICI

A fashion show at the Planetarium in 2013, as part of BAFWEEK.

View of Bolívar Street facing the Cabildo and Diagonal Norte, on Buenos Aires' historical center. The city's characteristic convergence of diverse architectural styles can be seen, including Spanish Colonial, Beaux-Arts and modernist architecture.

Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, a public high school in Buenos Aires, and it is one of the most prestigious in Argentina and Latin America.

University of Buenos Aires' Law School in Recoleta

A Mitre Line Trenes Argentinos train in Retiro railway station

Map of the Greater Buenos Aires Commuter Rail Network

200 Series rolling stock at San José de Flores station, Buenos Aires Underground.

Buquebus high-speed ferries connect Buenos Aires to Uruguay

Campo Argentino de Polo, home of the Argentine Open Polo Championship, the most important global event of this discipline

La Bombonera during a night game of Copa Libertadores between Boca Juniors v. Colo Colo.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (born 29 October 1965) is an Argentine economist, politician and the current Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

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In these elections held on 5 July 2015, Macri stepped down as mayor and pursue his presidential bid and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta took his place as the mayoral candidate for PRO.

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Mauricio Macri

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Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019.

Mauricio Macri and Martín Palermo, football player of Boca Juniors.

Macri (center) with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (left) and Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli (right) in 2008

Macri on a 200 Series train on Line A of the Buenos Aires Underground, January 2013

Macri with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during the inauguration of Autopista Illia in 2014

Macri inspecting Metropolitan Police graduates

Macri and Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis)

Macri campaigning in Cordoba, in August 2015

Macri receives the presidential sash from acting president Federico Pinedo.

Macri at the World Economic Forum, January 2018.

Argentine delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, in 2016. It was the return of the country to the conference after 11 years of absence.

Macri with former president Bill Clinton, Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and London mayor Sadiq Khan at the Clinton Global Initiative

Macri negotiating the loan with Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF.

Macri announcing an investment deal for the Vaca Muerta shale deposit in Patagonia

Mauricio Macri, US president Donald Trump and their respective first ladies, at the White House in the United States

Macri and German chancellor Angela Merkel during the 2017 G20 Summit in Hamburg

Macri acknowledged Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.

Mauricio Macri during the electoral campaign of 2017

Demonstration in support of Maldonado during the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.

Arms of Mauricio Macri as member of the Order of Isabella the Catholic

He previously served as 5th Chief of Government of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2015, and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2005 to 2007.

Later that year, Macri ran for mayor of Buenos Aires, alongside Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.

Republican Proposal

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Macri was re-elected Mayor of Buenos Aires together with María Eugenia Vidal as Vice-Chief of the city.

President Macri and Vicepresident Gabriela Michetti, in their Inauguration Ceremony in Argentine Parliament, on 10 December 2015

PRO has governed the Buenos Aires since 2007 and formed Cambiemos with the Radical Civic Union and the Civic Coalition ARI with which they won the 2015 general election.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta was elected Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires under another district coalition: Unión-PRO.

2015 Argentine general election

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General elections were held in Argentina on 25 October 2015 to elect the President and National Congress, and followed primary elections which were held on 9 August 2015.

Opinion polls during the first round had underestimated the number of voters intending to vote for Macri, while later polls underestimated Scioli.

Then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner casting her vote.

On the first runoff voting ever held for an Argentine Presidential Election, Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri narrowly defeated Front for Victory candidate and Buenos Aires Province Governor Daniel Scioli with 51.34% of votes.

The Republican Proposal also retained the city of Buenos Aires, that elected Horacio Rodríguez Larreta as the new mayor.

List of mayors and chiefs of government of Buenos Aires City

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This is a list of mayors and chiefs of government of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital, since its federalization.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta became mayor in 2015, after defeating Michetti in the primary elections and Martín Lousteau in a ballotage.

Martín Lousteau

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Argentine economist and politician of the Radical Civic Union.

Lousteau making his case for higher oilseed export taxes in an April 2008 press conference. The resulting conflict with the nation's agricultural sector dominated his brief tenure as Economy Minister.

Lousteau with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Martín Lousteau canvassing in Buenos Aires during his 2015 mayoral run.

He is National Senator for Buenos Aires.

He ran for mayor in 2015 backed by centre-left coalition called ECO (Energía Ciudadana Organizada), and was narrowly defeated by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.