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ELECTIONS 2023

Soledad Acuña pulls out of race to become next City mayor

02-05-2023 17:13 Buenos Aires City education minister formally announces her withdrawal from race to become next mayor of capital.

by James Grainger

OPPOSITION EYE

Amid turbulence and tensions, PRO puts on united front

27-04-2023 19:47 Key leaders from the centre-right party meet on Friday in San Isidro with talks over the opposition coalition’s line-up for the elections ongoing.

POLITICS: CITY

‘Single PRO candidate in City PASO’ – Rodríguez Larreta accepts Macri’s condition

30-03-2023 18:07 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta hints that neither of his ministers, Soledad Acuña nor Fernán Quirós, will be able to compete against Jorge Macri, former president’s cousin, in opposition PASO.

OPINION

IWD: State and justice system owes debt to victims of femicide

08-03-2023 12:33 Femicide numbers are not decreasing and Argentina lacks the effective government policies to prevent them. The State – and the Judiciary – has an outstanding debt with the nation's women.

by María Pastore

Politics

Soledad Acuña: 'I could be the first woman to govern the City'

17-11-2022 01:49 City Education Minister Soledad Acuña has placed her hat in the mayoral ring of Juntos por el Cambio for next year’s elections.

EDITORIAL

Schools for scandal

08-10-2022 06:00 There are right and wrong ways of addressing both our critics and our supporters and of responding to crisis.

ARGENTINA

Students square off with City Hall as school seizure movement grows

29-09-2022 20:19 No end in sight to tensions, with as many as 20 schools throughout Buenos Aires now occupied by student demonstrators; City education minister points finger at Kirchnerism and warns parents will pay for losses.

by Sam Forster

EDUCATION ROW

City Hall bans use of inclusive language in Buenos Aires' schools

10-06-2022 17:22 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta has banned the use of inclusive Spanish language in schools across the capital; Critics push back against measure.

EDUCATION ROW

City education minister accused of ‘giving up’ on school dropouts

21-01-2022 17:32 Soledad Acuña sparks controversy, suggesting that some schoolchildren had been “lost” in wake of pandemic.

APRENDER TESTS

Government, opposition clash in row over standardised testing

19-06-2021 08:52 Macri, Acuña, Rodríguez Larreta slam move to ‘suspend’ nationwide tests; Education minister, however, says they aren’t being suspended.