(CNN Spanish) — A month has passed since Javier Milli’s first speech as President of Argentina. Then he said: “Adjustment is inevitable, money is not,” and he stepped on the accelerator.
The Minister of the Economy, Luis Caputo, announced a significant devaluation of the peso; The security minister, Patricia Bullrich, launched a protocol with severe restrictions to close streets during protests; Later, Milli himself announced a decree of necessity and urgency (DNU), with a strong deregulation of the economy, which sparked a huge debate in society. And, before that debate began, the government introduced a mega bill that, among other proposals contained in more than 600 articles, asks Congress to delegate executive decisions on economic, financial, fiscal, pension, security and defense matters. Tariff, Energy, Health, Administrative and Social, for at least two years.
Soon after, prices skyrocketed – inflation reached 25.5% in December, five times higher than the indicator for December 2022 -; Fuel increased three times, about 30% each time; Private drug coverage has increased its monthly fees by 40%, and the same trend prevails in drugs, private schools, rent, transportation, etc.
Faced with this panorama of a deepening economic crisis – it is fair to say that Miley warned about it in each of her speeches – there are those who say that the measures implemented are not against politicians who economists call “race”, as he promised in the campaign. was Others wonder if Miley voters are disappointed.
Are Miley’s voters disappointed?
Miguel Pujol is 45 years old and lives in the northern part of the province of Buenos Aires. “With some reservations, my assessment is positive. It is going where it needs to go in economic terms and, in the political aspect, it is being managed very well,” he tells CNN en Español. Caveats: “It was too sudden with food and price liberalization and, at the political level, half uncontrolled with the DNU. Although I generally approve of both positions, it should be a little more moderate, but the balance is positive”.
Alexis Salinas, a 25-year-old from the city of Buenos Aires and founder of Peebs Libertarios, a group that favors the ideas of La Libertad Avanza, also supports it: “We all knew that inflation would rise, that “we have to live these months for the better, we have to wait. and will have to be patient” is the lesser evil.
“In the interior of the country we’ve always had a situation of inequality,” says Bernardo Alvarez, a businessman from Bahía Blanca, a city outside the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. “Here we pay more than there (capital) for transport, fuel, gas, electricity. Here we already live with other expenses,” he points out. “One of the most important things I see is that he has a more federalist vision,” he enthuses.
Tabatha Barrera Carlini is originally from the spa district of Villa Gesell, but lives in the city of Buenos Aires. She doesn’t disappoint either. He says “it’s a change that was needed” and that he was positively surprised by Bullrich’s anti-protest protocol. “Something that can be improved is the issue of communication. The other day, for example, he came out very strongly against union members and deputies and that, when you are in negotiations, is not a good move for me,” he points out. And adds: “”That’s his personality and that’s how he always carried himself.”
Archive photo. A police guard stands at the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires on December 11, 2023. Argentine President Javier Milli took office on Sunday with a stern warning to citizens to prepare for painful lockdown measures. Austerity to cut costs and triple control. Digit inflation. , all with empty treasures. (Photo by Luis Robio/AFP)
Did Miley take action against what she calls “caste”?
Salinas says Miley isn’t messing with “breed,” but he’s not criticizing her. “What he’s got to do, he’s got to talk, it doesn’t bother me, he’s doing his job.”
On the contrary, Pujol believes he has fulfilled this promise: “To touch the pockets of union members… if one votes for the interests of the so-called ‘caste’, nothing more, that is the key,” he says. is
Love magazine in the midst of crisis
The president set a parallel agenda, with debate over price hikes and sweeping reforms introduced.
In the middle of the summer season in Mar del Plata, one of Argentina’s most popular vacation resorts, where he presents his work, a passionate kiss with his partner, actress Fátima Florez, on stage. conversation
So there was speculation about moving his mastiff dogs to the presidential residence in Olivos. Similarly, the size of his legs was talked about when his girlfriend went viral with a photo of his legs attached to his limbs.
And these are just a few of the many photos from Sarkar’s first month.
“I prefer transparent love to all Argentines and not hypocritical love like the previous government in which Alberto Fernández blamed his wife for the problems,” says Salinas.
“I’m quite alien to social networks and sometimes there are things I don’t understand. I don’t understand how the president publishes memes, it seems quite childish to me, but I also understand that he himself is ordinary people. wants to show up as one of the others,” says Alvarez, a businessman from Bahía Blanca.
Does Miley have a blank check of her voters?
“The question is not how it starts, but how it will define the circumstances of the next four years,” says political analyst Jorge Giacobbe. “There’s going to be a debate that’s central and you’ve got to try not to forget to look at it all the time, and there’s going to be another debate on top of that, which is a build-up to the previous one. About whether the state is big or small, whether the man is a slob or not. There are ideological questions. And here’s the bigger issue: how far can public opinion tolerate the pain Milly proposes towards a better world,” he adds. .
Victoria de Masi is a journalist for the site elDiarioAR and investigated the movement around the figure of Mille before her presidential candidacy. In an interview with CNN, he says he doesn’t believe voters regret their vote, but expects to. “There is not only a great movement behind the Libertad Avanza embodied in the figure of Javier Mille, but a great social and cultural movement. It is a movement towards a new discourse,” he reflects. He adds that he doesn’t see a radical or far-right vote: “What Miley is doing wrong is thinking that all the big support she got in the election is completely loyal. Miley’s voter is a heterosexual voter who came to vote for her. Different reasons.”
#NoLaVen: How’s Miley Doing in the Culture War?
The night Miley, along with her ministers and loyalists, announced the much-discussed DNU, there was pot-banging in various parts of the country in reaction to the megacry. Later, the most powerful unions announced a general strike on March 24.
When consulted by local media, the president accused the protesters of having “Stockholm Syndrome”. “They are in love with the model that impoverishes them,” he noted.
Later, on X, previously on Twitter, the hashtag #NoLaVen became a trend, and Miley posted a photo with the Argentine flag displayed on the Casa Rosada with the same phrase superimposed.
Long live porn freedom pic.twitter.com/FpSdUnSdcR
— Javier Milei (@JMilei) December 26, 2023
“La Libertad Avanza’s level of effectiveness and its great digital terrorism to quickly establish hashtags. For example, #Afuera, #NoHayPlata, #TábulaRasa,” De Masi highlights. “And now last, #NoLaVen. It’s amazing because he’s telling you something else, he’s telling you: ‘You’re blind,’ he’s telling you: ‘You’re stupid,’ you’re saying: ‘ This is in your favor and you don’t realize it.'” he added.
