Annual inflation has hit 254 percent and since Milei ripped away hefty transport and fuel subsidies the price of bus tickets has more than tripled.
"Now I know what it's like to walk," 42-year-old domestic worker Yanina Salto told AFP, who used to take four trips a day to get between jobs.
The cost of medicine has soared over 300 percent year-on-year.
While the government decreed a 30 percent salary increase by March, this is far less than the 85 percent demanded by labor unions -- and the walk-outs are mounting.
On Wednesday, train drivers downed tools, and on Thursday healthcare workers across the public and private sector went on strike, with only hospital emergency rooms expected to function.
Teachers have called a strike for the start of school next week, and the country's main CGT union is debating another general nationwide walkout.
That’s what happens when your previous government runs the economy into the ground. It was only ever going to get worse before it got better, over time it will equalize and stabilize just like it always does.
Privatizing, cutting expenses, and building foreign currency reserves are all reccomended policies, especially if your government is bankrupt and your currency was worth next to nothing. Argentina will come out of this stronger for it.
Privatization is one of the recommended policies, but essentially every place that has implemented it isn’t better off now. Studies show that it works for increasing the performance of the enterprises, but making shareholders richer doesn’t really matter for standards of living. Even the IMF and IBRD have started to see issues with privatizing everything. Argentina will one day be stronger, but not as a result of these policies.
It was only ever going to get worse before it got better. Policies need time to be implemented and the economy needs time to stabilize. Overall, Argentina will come out of his presidency stronger than if the previous governments had kept power.
Previous government ran the economy on the ground out of a lack of capacity and bad decisions. This one is doing it as part of its's plan.
Theres is a soaring debt exacerbated by the previous-previous government (2015-2019), whose ministers are again on the current government. They are continuing their plan while also preparing Milei's own plan to dollarize.
Previous government was idiotic but managed the pandemics rather well. This government is evil, and only finance sector driven.
From what I can read, he chose certain ministers to placate his opposition, but chose people that would be more sympathetic to his cause and would overall support him. The precious government, while handling the unprecedented pandemic very well, also continuously overspent on top of what the previous previous government spent. What Milei is doing is completely cutting back, stabilizing the Argentinian economy, then will allow the next government to reintroduce subsidies. Like he said, times are hard, and they will only get worse before they get better, but it will be better than what would have happened under another leftist government.
Add comment