Javier Milei had his first official day in office. newly elected president Argentina He gathered his ministers at the Executive headquarters this Sunday to define the implementation of an economic program that, as he had already announced upon taking office, would be very harsh, a ‘bad drink’ in the exciting form of ‘shock’.
“Times of change are coming that will be complex,” the new presidential spokesman said this Monday. Manuel Adorniwhile talking about the upcoming regulation. Customizations and savings of more than 20,000 million euros of state money. The expectation is very high. Markets operate on restructuring. It is known in advance that the measures will accelerate their careers. Price:%s and a new wave inflationand the resulting effect unemployment And povertycurrently 45%. The far-right government is considering this the only remedy necessary and he has the legitimacy the polls give him.
“Chainsaw“His followers shouted at him during his speech on Sunday, believing that this harsh truth, symbolized by the brutal pruning, would unleash his anger against terrorism.” Situation or “political caste” and not in their pockets. Within the framework of the transfer of command, jackets with the legend “no silver (money)” and the same image of the chainsaw were sold at a price of about eight euros, which speaks of the beginning of this era of the distance between rhetoric and facts.
Rejected data
The President devoted his opening speech on a platform to the justification of this program. He did this using technical language and numbers that were quickly refuted. As in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, fake news Incorrect data was added to the election campaign. President assures Argentina is in hyperinflation ‘planted’ by administration peronist By 2023, 300 percent will be gone, and if the path it draws is not followed, this country will become a carbon copy of the world. Venezuelan about “Chavez And Mature“, with an inflation of 15,000%.
The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec), whose powers were approved for its integrity by the incoming Government, measured annual inflation at 142 percent; This is a very high and striking figure, but it is less than half of 142 percent. conveyed by the president. The impact of these numbers was immediate. economy daily: stores began to update their prices, online electronics stores paused their articles to adapt to new references and insights delivered without adhering to methodological rigor. Experts predict that the end of December will end with an increase of nearly 30% in the cost of living.
government expenditure
President accuses Peronism of leaving behind a legacy fiscal deficit 17% of GDP. Argentina negotiated International Monetary Fund (IMF) gave a primary fiscal deficit of 1.9 percent. Minister of Economy and presidential candidate Sergio Massa, spent much more than he planned to have a chance at entering the race. The imbalance in public accounts is estimated at 4%, far from the figures Milei announced in front of his international guests and for the whole country.
Addressing the issue of urban security, he said that Argentina was a “bloodbath” and that this body was damaged by terrorism. guilt And drug trafficking. Experts on the subject, the city’s rosary beadswhere does it originate from? Leo MessiIt is going through an exceptional situation due to both a combination of problems and being a transit port for ships. medicine To Europe. However, statistics from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime show that the national drug rate murders The rate increased from 5.2 percent in 2019 to 4.3 percent last year, 40.5 percent in Venezuela, 21.3 percent in Brazil, 25.7 percent in Colombia and 44 percent in Ecuador. It’s 9. Milei did nothing but give the Minister of Security a free pass with the following unverified words: Patricia Bullrich, Champion of the iron fist and fan of the El Salvador experience.
Pandemic and playground
The growth of Milei’s figure is not independent of what happened. Pandemic. The president was one of those who questioned the quarantine most harshly. “If Argentines did what the average country in the world does, there would be 30,000 of us,” he said during those months of unrest. dead“. And he made irony: “Thanks to the state that takes care of us and its inefficiency, 130,000 Argentines lost their lives.” But the number of deaths per 100,000 people, COVID-19 It was lower than Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru.
He also gave assurances that Argentina would not deviate from the path of equality between countries. weight And dollarResidents of this country at the beginning of 2002 fees average $3,500. Money plan blown up due to its weight External debt This led to the seizure of savers’ funds. HE “Mali Corralito“Detonated the social explosion that ended the decade neoliberal. 20 years is a long time in one country crisis is repeated. The new generations who voted for Milei can only learn what is going on from their parents.
conservative revolution
According to the newspaper’s analyst Carlos Pagni People, Milei’s inauguration “revealed a visual and conceptual spectacle to which Argentina was unfamiliar.” On the one hand, “a conversation Rightit is economical, much more open than that which characterizes its passage. Mauricio Macri On the other hand, a reformist will that “can relate Milei to Cristina Kirchner”, but “in the opposite direction.” La Libertad Avanza, in his opinion, has a “worrying tone: conservative revolution “This showed itself yesterday with gestures and words.”
At the same time, the incoming president, with his biblical revelations and his approach to Orthodox Judaism, which lacks only a conversion ceremony, argues that the “salvation” plan he has set in motion “has supernatural legitimacy and is therefore unobjectionable.” and these “religious boundaries.” Pagni, one of this country’s most widely read columnists, wonders “what kind of treatment would anyone who dares challenge these mysterious designs deserve?”