In Buenos Aires, local legislators have accused Mayor Mauricio Macri of relaxing workplace safety controls to make it easier for garment sweatshops to operate. Macri is in the spotlight after a fire in one of the shops killed two children two weeks ago. The same place caught fire again last Thursday. According to grassroots organizations, around 35,000 people are exploited in sweatshops in Buenos Aires. The right-wing neoliberal mayor has no interest in protecting the victims of labor exploitation, say his critics. They charge that the city government has been well aware of the existence of the sweatshops through reports of the Special Prosecutor against Human Trafficking and several different NGOs, but has not moved to close them down.