Horacio Rodríguez Larreta

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

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Rodríguez Larreta.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
6th Chief of Government of Buenos Aires
Assumed office
10 December 2015
DeputyDiego Santilli
Preceded byMauricio Macri
Chief of cabinet of ministers of Buenos Aires
In office
10 December 2007 – 9 December 2015
Personal details
Born (1965-12-10) 10 December 1965
Buenos Aires, Argentina
NationalityArgentine
Political partyRepublican Proposal
Other political
affiliations		Cambiemos
Spouse(s)Bárbara Diez
ChildrenPaloma Rodriguez Larreta, Manuela Rodriguez Larreta and Serena Rodriguez Larreta
ParentsHoracio Rodríguez Larreta
María Cristina Díaz Alberdi
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires Harvard Business School
Signature

Biography

Larreta was born in Buenos Aires on 29 October 1965. He was educated at Escuela Argentina Modelo.[1] 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.[2] He led the PAMI in 2000, during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa, and improved the financial structure of the organization.[3]

Republican Proposal

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 Union, a center-right coalition in 2015, with Larreta ultimately winning the party's support for mayorship of Buenos Aires.[4] On 5 July 2015, Larreta won 45% of the vote, forcing a runoff with the leader of center-left Evolution’s, Martín Lousteau, who secured 28% of the vote. Rodríguez Larreta won the ballottage by three points over Lousteau and succeeded Mauricio Macri as mayor of the City since 2015.

Mayor of Buenos Aires

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.[5] With the police under his control, Larreta went on to remove the manteros (streetwalk vendors) from the Caballito and Once neighborhoods.[6][7] In 2017, Larreta formed the Buenos Aires City Police, merging officers from the Federal and Metropolitan police forces.[8]

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.[9] In mid-2019, the three new stations of the extension of Line E (Correo Central, Catalinas and Retiro), were inaugurated.[10]

During its first term, 3 viaducts were built, 9 km of underground work of the Vega Stream, 7 stations of 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, the Corrientes 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.[11] He won in every comuna, except Comuna 4 and Comuna 8.[12]

Cabinet
Larreta with then-mayor Mauricio Macri and SBASE chief Juan Pablo Picardo on a 200 Series train.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announced his cabinet on 3 December, a week before taking office.[13] 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

Books
  • 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.

References
  1. "El Newman: del rugby a la política, la escuela del dinero y el poder," El Observada, 3 July 2016 (Retrieved 3 July 2016)
  2. Walter Curia (5 May 1998). "Un equipo con sello menemista" [A team with a menemist seal] (in Spanish). Clarín. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  3. Mariano Pérez de Eulat (2 December 2000). "Renunció al PAMI el interventor que pertenece al PJ" [The interventor that belongs to the PJ resigned to the PAMI] (in Spanish). Clarín. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  4. "La distancia entre Horacio Rodríguez Larreta y Gabriela Michetti fue mucho mayor de lo que se esperaba" [The distance between Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Gabriela Michetti was bigger than expected] (in Spanish). La Nación. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  5. "Mauricio Macri transfirió parte de la Policía Federal a la Ciudad". La Nación (in Spanish). 5 January 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  6. "Megaoperativo policial contra manteros en Caballito". La Nación (in Spanish). 29 January 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  7. "Antes y después: cómo quedó Once sin los manteros". La Nación (in Spanish). 18 January 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  8. "Entró en funciones la nueva Policía de la Ciudad". Télam (in Spanish). 2 January 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  9. "Se inauguró la estación Facultad de Derecho". enelSubte.com (in Spanish). 17 May 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  10. "Las tres estaciones nuevas del subte E: Correo Central, Catalinas y Retiro". El Economista (in Spanish). 3 June 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  11. "Arrasó Larreta en histórico triunfo porteño, que alivia ahora transición". Ámbito (in Spanish). 28 October 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  12. Rosemberg, Jaime (28 October 2019). "Elecciones 2019: un triunfo aplastante proyecta a Larreta como el referente nacional de la oposición". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  13. "La foto del gabinete de Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: quién es quién" [The photo of the cabinet of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: who is who] (in Spanish). La Nación. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
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