Horacio Rodríguez Larreta

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

Larreta was born in Buenos Aires on 29 October 1965. He was educated at Escuela Argentina Modelo. He graduated with a degree in economics at the University of Buenos Aires in 1988 and obtained a Master in Business Administration in Harvard Business School. He returned to Argentina in 1993. He was appointed director of the ANSES in 1995, during the presidency of Carlos Menem. In 1998 he moved to the Ministry of Social Development. He led the PAMI in 2000, during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa, and improved the financial structure of the organization.

He helped Mauricio Macri to create the political party Commitment to Change, which would eventually become the Republican Proposal (PRO). Macri became the mayor of Buenos Aires in 2007, and Larreta has served as chief of the cabinet of ministers of the city since then.

Larreta and Gabriela Michetti ran for the primary elections of PRO in 2015, with Larreta ultimately winning the party's support for mayorship of Buenos Aires. On 5 July 2015, Larreta won 45% of the vote, forcing a runoff with ECO candidate Martín Lousteau, who secured 28% of the vote.

Mauricio Macri was elected president of Argentina in 2015, and Larreta was elected the new mayor of Buenos Aires, narrowly defeating Martín Lousteau in a tight two-round election. Macri transferred a part of the Argentine Federal Police to Buenos Aires, as it had been requested by the city many years before. With the police under his control, Larreta went on to remove the manteros (streetwalk vendors) from the Caballito and Once neighborhoods. In 2017, Larreta formed the Buenos Aires City Police, merging officers from the Federal and Metropolitan police forces.

During its management, the work of the Paseo del Bajo was started and inaugurated, which is the 7.1-kilometer road corridor that will connect the Illia and Buenos Aires-La Plata highways, the work in question began during January 2017 and the 27 May 2019 shortening the journey from 50 minutes to 10 minutes. It will generate 100,000 square meters of public and green space and improve the circulation of 134,000 daily passengers.

He also inaugurated the work of the Miter Viaduct, which will raise the Miter line of the metropolitan train over its current course, enabling new level crossings and eliminating traditional barriers. It is 3.9 km inside the city. The objective of this work is to eliminate the level crossings of the streets Monroe, Blanco Encalada, Mendoza, Juramento, Olazábal, Sucre, La Pampa and Olleros. In addition, 4 safe crossings will be opened on streets that were closed to traffic: Roosevelt, Echeverría and Virrey del Pino, for vehicular traffic, and José Hernández, an exclusive pedestrian crossing.

In 2018, Larreta's government inaugurated a new station on Line H serving the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Law in the Recoleta neighborhood. In mid-2019, the three new stations of the extension of Line E (Correo Central, Catalinas and Retiro), were inaugurated.

During its first term, 3 viaducts were built, 9 km of underground work of the Vega Stream, 7 stationsof subway, 10,000 security cameras, 62.5 km of metrobus extension, 54 new schools, 10,000 new homes, 7 monitoring centers, 46 health centers, the Olympic District was built, the San Martin Theater was reopened, theCorrientes Street, the Youth Olympic Games were held in 2018, neighborhoods were integrated and urbanized and the City became 100% led.

Larreta was re-elected in 2019 with almost 56% of the votes, becoming the first candidate to win a mayoral election in the first round since the adoption of Buenos Aires's autonomous constitution. He won in every comuna, except Comuna 4 and Comuna 8.

Cabinet

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announced his cabinet on 3 December, a week before taking office. It is composed of:

• Felipe Miguel, chief of cabinet of ministers
• Fernando Straface, general secretary
• Soledad Acuña, minister of education
• Ana María Bou Pérez, minister of health
• Guadalupe Tagliaferri, minister of urban development
• Leticia Montiel, legal and technical secretary
• Andrés Freire, minister of modernization
• Darío Lopérfido, minister of culture
• Martín Ocampo, minister of justice
• Eduardo Macchiavelli, minister of public space
• Franco Moccia, minister of transport
• Martín Mura, minister of finances
• Bruno Screnci, minister of government
• Marcelo Nachón, secretary of media

• 1996: Tecnología y competitividad en el Mercosur.
• 1997: Hacia un nuevo sector público.
• 1998: Domando al elefante blanco.
• 1999: El desafío de la igualdad.
• 2004: La reconstrucción del Estado.
• 2005: Como superar el default social.
• 2006: El país que queremos.