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A hard currency is a globally traded currency expected to serve as a reliable store of value. The Argentine peso isn't widely enough traded, not to mention subject to devaluation, to even remotely qualify as a hard currency.

I won't consider mandatory voting, someone forcing you to vote, freedom at all.

I was in Argentina the last election, I saw buses of poor people that were given bocadillos and $10 with instructions of who they should vote.

Argentina is going downhill. I know, I have family there.

I think you can't differentiate between political theory and realpolitik. Having elections don't make a country free. We can argue infinitely about the same on other places but Argentina has a long history of constraining individual freedom and policies against productive companies