Argentina is dying. She is not dead, it is not certain that she will die, but she is very serious. From the social, from the political, from the moral, but even as a nation state.
From the social point of view, because Javier Milei as president has the record of having brought poverty to 60%, and indigence to almost 20%. This is explained by the inflation shock of the first months, with peaks of 25% monthly, and then lowering it until reaching the current 5%, and presenting this as an achievement, when in reality it is returning to the levels prior to the mandate. of the.
A furious devaluation of the Argentine peso, the liberalization of prices and the removal of state subsidies for energy and transportation sent the cost of living through the roof.
The Government presented it as another achievement of the chainsaw and the blender. What liquefied was the standard of living of Argentine society, and that produced a precipitous drop in consumption, which generated several other results: recession, chain closure of businesses and SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), unemployment and an army of nupos (new poor). In short, the worst scenario for the economy: stagflation, which is the strange mixture of inflation and recession.
The main axis of the electoral campaign turned out to be a great deception: Milei had promised to end the political “caste”, and that this supposed caste would pay for the crisis; a crisis that he himself turned into a tragedy, and that the working people are paying, not “the caste.” The true caste, that of big capital, is increasingly happy, especially that of speculative and foreign capital that is there, lurking, waiting for the Base Law to come into force, to pounce on our natural resources.
In fact, the famous Base Law, which cost the Government so much to obtain, is a true neocolony statute, which guarantees all kinds of prerogatives for foreign capital that comes to plunder energy resources: oil, gas and, above all, lithium. .
That draft Base Law, which began to be called the Omnibus Law, was sent to Congress in January with more than a thousand articles, and this week it ended up being approved with only 238, but which maintain the essentials, and which enhances its destructive capacity with special powers. delivered to the Executive, which makes Milei almost an absolute monarch.
Embarrassing events arose from the negotiation of the Base Law, such as that of an opposition senator who changed her vote at the last minute and – what a coincidence – was appointed ambassador to UNESCO, a desired Parisian destination. This means that, to the already described social agony, a very serious political and moral crisis is added.
While all this was happening inside the majestic Congress building, outside the typical images of a country that was bleeding were repeated. A protesting people and the logical police repression, an aspect carefully planned and planned by a Government that knows that, without sticks, gas and jail, it cannot apply its anti-national and anti-popular program.
Another record has to do with the miles accumulated by a Milei who, in six months, has completed ten international trips; most for private and personal purposes, but with public money.
In November, as President-elect, he traveled to New York to visit the grave of a messianic rabbi named Manachen Schneerson. In January he went to Davos, Switzerland, for the annual summit of the world’s richest rich. In February he went to Israel, where he gave full support to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, accused by the UN for the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, and combined the tour with a visit to Italy, to hug the far-right leader Giorgia. Meloni. He then returned to the United States, in this case to Washington, to the Conservative Action Policy Conference, at which he embraced Donald Trump.
In April he landed in Miami, where he returned to be with his friends from Lubabish, a tiny sector of the most reactionary Judaism, who named him Ambassador of Light, and he jumped to Texas to take a photo with Elon Musk, one of those interested. in keeping Argentine lithium.
In May he returned to his favorite destination, the United States, this time to Los Angeles, to participate in a conference by the Milken Foundation, a think tank of the neoliberal right.
In May he crossed the Atlantic to be in Madrid, at a neo-Franco event, with his friends from Vox, in which he insulted the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and triggered another diplomatic crisis.
At the beginning of this month, he was again in the United States, in San Francisco, to visit the Silicon Valley bosses, and then pass through El Salvador, in order to attend the inauguration of Nayib Bukele. This weekend he was in Italy, at the G7 summit, and then in Switzerland, to give unconditional support to the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in his war against Russia.
Next Thursday he will return to Madrid to receive an award from the Juan de Mariana Institute, another of the many institutions that combine neoliberalism with touches of neofascism.
Of those ten trips in just six months, only three we could say included government actions: Davos, Israel-Italy and the G7. The rest was for personal purposes.
Lastly, and perhaps most serious of all, is that the crisis threatens the very integrity of Argentina. In an interview, Milei admitted: “I love being the mole that destroys a state from within.”
This confession gives the full dimension of Argentina’s agony. We are not facing the traditional neoliberal right that always talked about shrinking the State as much as possible, but rather we are facing a true anarcho-capitalist who wants to destroy it, but truly destroy it.
Destroying the State is destroying the nation. The severity is worrying, the agony is sad, and the prognosis… reserved.
