The presidential advisor Federico Sturzenegger identified as “change blockers” “Argentina’s Bermuda Triangle” formed by “the business corporation, the union corporation and the Peronist Party, with their different names and different skins.”
For the president’s advisor Javier Milei, that triangle began to operate “at the end of the ’60s” of the last century and that “the person largely responsible for this is President (Juan Carlos) Onganía” who held the dictatorship between 1966 and 1970.
At the close of the first day of the Forum “Rebirth of freedom in Argentina and the world”which is organized by the Libertad y Progreso Foundation, the former president of the Central Bank consequently said that The problem “is not from a hundred years ago, but our generation is responsible for the debacle and the electorate said ‘enough’: that was the mandate that Milei received.”
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When wondering why “Argentines are not free,” Sturzenegger argued that “There are interests that want this to continue like this” and he cited two examples in which, I assure you, “a piece of paper” prevents the development of that potential.
One of them is the authorization of the Starlink satellite company, through DNU 70/2023, which annulled “a piece of paper that previously said it could not be done” and as of its repeal “the telephone companies will present national coverage services, with zero cost for the State.”
The other is that of the foot-and-mouth vaccine, in which “a piece of paper said that it had to be quadrivalent, despite the fact that two strains were eradicated more than 50 years ago” and reduced the supply to “a single laboratory in Argentina.” .
The presidential advisor criticized “the regulator’s willingness to reduce the risk” and stated that “You have to be encouraged to take a little more risk.”
When characterizing the interests that, in his opinion, impede economic growth, he identified the three vertices of what he called “Argentina’s Bermuda triangle” and which are “the business corporation, the union corporation and the Peronist Party, with their different names and different skins.”
“Peronism is the manager of the castes, “the true conservative party of Argentina”, he exclaimed, in one of the passages of his speech most applauded by the audience.
Disassembly of the triangle
To deactivate that “triangle”, Sturzenegger urged “disarm the power of agents blocking change” and identified two factors: “for the business corporation it is competition and for the union, it is the boxes,” At the same time, he assured that abroad “they do not understand how in Argentina unionism takes between 3% and 3.5% of formal salaries.”
Despite recognizing the difficulties, he stressed that In the ’90s “the military caste was deactivated and (former President Carlos) Menem did it by eliminating conscription, which defunded them of soldiers and they stopped being an important factor in the power struggle.”
“It is an arduous task,” he admitted, ending by rescuing what he considered “an unprecedented democratic experience” that Argentina is experiencing, in which “the president gets angry with Congress and that is a sign of vitality of the system, we have to see it as a strength.”
L.M.
