Weekly Report - 28 July 2016 (WR-16-29)

Against a background of continuing opposition to utility tariff increases and inflation in Argentina, attempts are being made to reunite the country’s largest trade union movement, Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), which is currently split into three rival groups. It is in the interests of President Mauricio Macri that the CGT remains fractured and the mutual animosity between its leaders preserved as non-Peronist governments have found to their cost in the past that it is a potent threat when united.

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