Overview

• Governor Martín Llaryora formally preadjudicated the remaining 62.9 kilometers of Autopista Ruta 19 on July 30 to position the province to complete the highway if Buenos Aires does not issue the transfer decree.
• Intendentes from San Justo, San Francisco, Arroyito, Morteros, La Francia and Marull rallied on July 31 to back Córdoba’s request for federal jurisdiction transfer, emphasizing the route’s economic and safety significance.
• Caminos de las Sierras split the project into three public bids, awarding the 29.4-km segment to José J. Chediack S.A.I.C.A. and the 16.8-km and 16.7-km sections to Benito Roggio e Hijos S.A., with construction slated to take about 18 months.
• The unfinished stretch, a key element of the long-planned bioceanic corridor, has been denounced by Llaryora as a “machine of death” due to high accident rates and lack of maintenance.
• With Inter-American Development Bank credits in limbo after President Milei’s funding pause, Córdoba has urged direct assumption of the international loans to secure uninterrupted financing.