The World - News from April 17, 1986
Argentine President Raul Alfonsin revived the idea of relocating the nation’s capital out of overcrowded Buenos Aires, suggesting that a new administrative center be built in the sparsely settled northern edge of the vast Patagonian region. He did not say how much the relocation might cost nor how Argentina, struggling to pay off a huge foreign debt, would finance it. Alfonsin suggested that the new capital be situated in the area of Viedma and Carmen de Patagones, 500 miles south of Buenos Aires.
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