Overview

• La Fraternidad issued a communiqué titled “Ramal que anda, ramal que cierra” accusing the national government of pursuing a plan to suppress passenger rail services.
• The statement says services to Mendoza, San Luis and La Pampa were removed, along with the Buenos Aires–Rosario express, routes to Pehuajó, Pinamar and Bahía Blanca, and tourist runs such as Mercedes–Tomás Jofré, La Banda–Fernández and Rosario–Cañada de Gómez.
• The union warns that the Retiro–Tucumán and Neuquén–Cipolletti lines, among others, are now at risk.
• Leaders frame the current cuts as a reprise of the 1960s Plan Larkin and the 1990s reforms, declaring that “the third time” would complete a new wave of rail dismantling.
• The government responded to the escalating dispute by imposing a mandatory conciliation order.