Overview
- La Fraternidad issued a statement titled “Ramal que anda, ramal que cierra,” accusing the Milei government and the IMF of advancing a plan to suppress rail services in favor of metal‑mechanic and petroleum interests.
- The union reports that passenger trains to Mendoza, San Luis and La Pampa were already cut, as well as the Buenos Aires–Rosario express, services to Pehuajó, Pinamar and Bahía Blanca, and tourist routes between Mercedes–Tomás Jofré, La Banda–Fernández and Rosario–Cañada de Gómez.
- It warns that long‑distance services including Retiro–Tucumán and Neuquén–Cipolletti are at risk of closure next.
- The communiqué casts current policies as a reprise of the 1960s Plan Larkin and the 1990s state reforms, describing this as a “third” attempt to dismantle the rail network.
- The government recently invoked a Conciliación Obligatoria, while the union calls for worker and popular mobilization to resist further cuts.