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Weekly Report - 15 March 2018 (WR-18-10)

ARGENTINA: Tensions with the industrialists

“A tense week for relations with the government”. This is how Miguel Acevedo, the president of the Unión Industrial Argentina (UIA), the main industrial sector lobby, has described the past week. Acevedo’s remarks follow a public spat between the sector and Production Minister Francisco Cabrera over the economic policies pursued by the government led by President Mauricio Macri. The Macri government may be engaged in a running dispute with Argentina’s trade unions over its economic reform plans [WR-18-07] but this is the first time that it has clashed with the local business sector over economic policy since it assumed power in 2015, raising suspicions that the government may be losing its support.

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