In Argentina, street art, while often at the forefront of recent political change, only became a means to express political opinions rather late when compared to other countries{\textemdash}indeed, until the 1990s, governments made sure that the street was not a space for citizens to freely express themselves. This situation changed after the 2001 financial crisis, when the Argentineans reappropriated the streets; political street art and murals, often commissioned by political parties themselves, then became a staple of Argentinean streets.
In this paper, I explore the use of street art in Argentina as a means to spur political change. I briefly trace the evolution of street art{\textemdash}the 1968 Tucum{\'a}n Arde, the 1983 siluetazo, and the stencil movement that followed the 2001 financial crisis, amongst others{\textemdash}to then concentrate on more recent examples of street art tied to the Kirchner era (2003-2015) and to Macri. Whereas street art produced by the youth organization La C{\'a}mpora is part of a bigger project to create a visual legacy for late president Kirchner, tags and murals that depict Macri serve to criticize him and his politics.
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