Flooding: Tension in Buenos Aires Province with Milei over halted works in the Salado River Basin

Amid the floods hitting the center of the province of Buenos Aires, the Minister of Agrarian Development, Javier Rodríguez, exposed the responsibility of the national government in the halting of works on the Río Salado Basin. Due to the heavy rains, Rodríguez recalled that "in March of this year, we had declared the agricultural emergency in 9 de Julio," but then "the situation worsened." "Declaring the agricultural emergency, with a tax exception, an additional contribution of $2,000 million was also allocated for the improvement of rural roads, machinery to clean ditches, and to allow transitability," he listed. In statements to Radio Provincia, the official from Axel Kicillof's administration referred to the harm caused by the national government's cut in resources for the continuity of the Río Salado Master Plan. "Stage 4.2 is in the hands of the national government and since December 2023, they stopped making payments and the work was halted. If it had continued, it would be ...