Overview
- The government set up an operations center in 9 de Julio to coordinate assistance, tasking AFE with directing Vialidad machinery, Defense engineering units and federal forces.
- Officials said the deployment will open rural roads, clear drains and culverts, and install temporary bridges to restore access for isolated families and towns.
- AFE director Santiago Hardie was scheduled to travel to the hub to oversee work, with national ministers planning a visit to the zone this weekend.
- ARBA formalized exemptions and payment deferrals of the Rural Real Estate Tax for farms in 19 districts already certified in emergency or disaster status.
- Patricia Bullrich blamed the provincial government for a lack of coordination and called the rainfall in the Salado basin historically high, while legislators advanced a bill to declare an agro-emergency with broader relief.