Also, I doubt many of us can cite sculptures of "native" people (like Juana Azurduy = new sculpture that will replace the Columbus one) in Bs As, I think there are none.
1) The 4 meter tall woman with an enormous gravity effected rack on the ~6 meter tall tablet behind Pedro Mendoza's statue in Parque Lezama that faces the corner of Defensa & Brasil is one.
2) Gauchito Gil might have been a mestizo and he is EVERYWHERE.
3) There was not an amorous relationship with regards to the indigenous population and the European settlers, so it's not like there are dozens of big names of "native" people to point to who helped in the founding of the city of Buenos Aires and/or the country of Argentina.
That being said, from what I can tell, it is a great ploy to distract people from the real problems at hand. It is completely out of left field, it is destined to piss off an enormous percentage of the local citizens... who voted for the hated Macri
en masse, and it digs at the Italian community (again with the Macri obsession) while not touching the Spanish community (Mrs Fernandez....).
But there has to be a legitimate reason or two that are not being espoused. And where does the National Government's authority end and the Municipality's authority begin? I would think that the land all around the
Casa Rosada is city property. The fence around the "back yard" is just for safety purposes, I would think.