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.