Macri and CABA's use of Buenos Aires
- Tiempo Argentino published an April 25 report saying Jorge Macri’s Buenos Aires city government depends heavily on Buenos Aires province for waste disposal, labor and prison transfers while attacking the province politically. - The article says nearly 1.5 million Buenos Aires province residents work in the city, while CEAMSE facilities handling city waste process about 45,000 tons a month at key transfer centers. - The dispute lands amid fights over homelessness, hospitals and metropolitan services in Greater Buenos Aires, where city and province remain economically intertwined (tiempoar.com.ar)
A new report in Tiempo Argentino says Jorge Macri’s Buenos Aires city government relies on Buenos Aires province while blaming it for crime, homelessness and pressure on public services. (tiempoar.com.ar) The article, published April 25, says the city sends thousands of tons of trash into the conurbano, uses labor from roughly 1.5 million province residents and transfers inmates from Devoto to the Marcos Paz prison complex. (tiempoar.com.ar) CEAMSE’s own transfer-center data shows the scale of the waste system. Its Colegiales center handles about 45,000 tons a month from the city alone, while Flores processes about 41,000 tons a month, 62% from the city. (ceamse.gov.ar) The same CEAMSE page says the Pompeya center processes about 45,500 tons a month, with 40% from the city and 60% from Buenos Aires province municipalities. Zavaleta handles about 42,500 tons a month, including dry waste and construction debris, with 29% from the city. (ceamse.gov.ar) The labor link is just as large. A University of Buenos Aires labor brief says city household surveys cover only residents of the capital and that those residents account for about half of city employment because the rest of the jobs are filled by commuters from the conurbano. (economicas.uba.ar) An Observatorio del Conurbano chart based on the Permanent Household Survey says 47.2% of people working in the city in 2024 lived in the conurbano. Tiempo Argentino framed that dependence as one of the facts omitted from Macri’s public attacks on the province. (observatorioconurbano.ungs.edu.ar) (tiempoar.com.ar) The report ties that argument to other disputes already active in the metropolitan area. It says the city has restricted access for nonresidents at public hospitals and floated moving homeless shelters outside the capital, a proposal that triggered a request for information in the city legislature. (tiempoar.com.ar) Matías Barroetaveña, a city lawmaker from Fuerza por Buenos Aires, told the paper the shelter proposal amounted to expelling vulnerable people from the district. Horacio Ávila of Proyecto 7 said the Macri political movement has long tried to push homeless people out of the city. (tiempoar.com.ar) The broader point is that the capital and the surrounding province function as one labor and services system even as their leaders fight in public. The garbage trucks, commuter flows and prison transfers all run across the same border Macri uses in his speeches. (ceamse.gov.ar) (observatorioconurbano.ungs.edu.ar) (tiempoar.com.ar)
