Updated Monday 5.15 p.m.Marco Lavagna resigned unexpectedly as director of Argentina’s statistics institute INDEC on Monday. Caputo said Lavagna will be replaced by Pedro Lines, who has served in the INDEC since 2016 and has been its technical director since 2018. “We are appalled,” said Raúl Llaneza, deputy secretary-general of the State Workers’ Association union and a union representative for INDEC. According to Caputo, Lavagna’s resignation was due to the fact that his expectation that the new index would be implemented next week was cut short. The source in the national administration said that the former INDEC head miscalculated the tourist balance, an index that measures outbound and inbound tourism.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald February 02, 2026 19:01 UTC