Milei’s Argentinian MAGA: Make Argentina Great Again! – By Hemantha Yapa Abeywardena Javier Milei, the flamboyant, Argentinian president, who came to power in December by performing a series of unorthodox, political stunts, appears to be determined to assign a range of controversial tasks to his most striking political symbol during the campaign – the chainsaw. With an administrative equivalent of a chainsaw, Mr Milei is already hacking his way through the intricate, bureaucratic woods in his native Argentina, implying nothing was off-limit. Mr Milei, to begin with, is planning to lay off over 70,000 government employees, has frozen public projects and and devalued Argentinian peso by more than 50%. To his credit, they appear to be working in his favour, at least for now; the inflation has been slowing down for four months in a row, but it is still high; Argentina, up until recently, had the world’s highest inflation ...
May 28, 2024
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