Milei is doing pretty great things in Argentina. Their present might not be great, but their future could be.
And in case you were wondering: yes, he was inaugurated at the top of the inflation rate, when they had a hyperinflation brewing up. 5 months later, inflation is well under control.
Austerity is certainly painful for the people who are affected (which is not even close to being all the people), but the culprit is not the one who is doing the austerity, but the ones who screwed up the economy in such a drastic way that it has to be done.
Unfortunately, he has only 3 years to go. That might not be long enough for people to realize all the good he will have done by then.
The time he has left is not a problem though - if these policies and the chainsaw are indeed the panacea they purport to be, I’m sure people will elect Milei’s anointed successor by a landslide in the understanding that they’d continue with the same policies.
Your abundance of faith in the people is uplifting, but I'm a bit more sceptical. I've seen various peoples around this planet do the same mistake: 1) things go bad, 2) people vote in those who can fix it, 3) things are fixed, 4) people vote the other guys again, 5) goto 1
Then again, it was (mostly) the same argentinian people who voted him in in the first place, so perhaps they can do it.
-25% in medicine purchases since the beginning of the year.
Largest drop in meat consumption ever recorded in the last 50 years.
Mass exodus of scientists due to the complete defunding of state research in critical areas.
One of the largest forest fires going on with the national government not providing any assistance, something that no historical precedent, because the president doesn't believe in the state doing anything about it.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-poverty-levels-uca-stud...
> Winter deepens misery for Argentina's poor following Milei's financial cuts
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/winter-deepens-misery...
Yeah, real "great". As long as you don't care about your fellow humans.
Also this gem
> "Since this government came to power, jobs have dropped away. We work twice as hard for less and we have to keep going," said Casal, who has 14 children and 42 grandchildren
Nobody who lives here will tell you anything has gotten better in this time. I have never in my entire life seen a team of complete dimwits at the helm of this country, regardless of ideology.
A madman who believes firefighting services should be privatized and who has not shown the least concern about the fact that these policies are measurably increasing food insecurity among children has no place governing.
The drop in standards was to be expected given the terrible situation Argentina was. Hopefully it gets better in a few years.
My fear was that Milei would turn out to be another puppet giving hope to people and not doing anything, but it seems he's been doing some proper haircuts, which were long overdue.
Argentina was one of the wealthies countries in the world before decades of drifting into socialism.
These sort of ridiculous, ignorant statements that have neither a clue of what Argentina used to be like, what it was in recent times, and what socialism actually means are the reason why Milei can lure gullible morons.
They are choosing to rip of the bandaid all at once. And yeah it's going to suck for a while as their economy reorganizes itself.
Milei's plans are incredibly ambitious, and I don't know the chances that it will actually be pulled off, but I wish the country luck.
It's going to suck for much longer than it should have. He might have destroyed the potential for reorganization.
I really wanted to see the experiment work out but the data is ruined now.