The government celebrates the 4% inflation in July and the loss of 250 thousand jobs // Milei tries to displace Vice President Villarruel

Stella Calloni

Correspondent

The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 19, 2024, p. 30

Buenos Aires, President Javier Milei, of the far-right La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party, continues to travel to different places for partisan reasons, while the social situation worsens every day. According to the Zuban consultancy, 92 percent of Argentines consider that the most serious thing in the country is the increase in poverty, and in second place, with 89.9 percent, the increase in unemployment.

Various analysts estimate that in centers that study government policies, the continuous loss of sovereignty due to agreements signed outside Congress, hidden by the mass media, which manipulate more and more the information that reaches the majority, is more than worrying.

The Argentine Social Debt Observatory, of the Catholic University (UCA), certified poverty rates of 54.9 percent of the population and 20.3 percent of indigence.

The Argentine Workers’ Union reported that 56 percent of the population lives in poverty; 62 percent in the suburbs and 70 percent in some provinces. Indigence in the suburbs affects 25 percent of the population, the union said.

We observe, as in much of society, a worrying violation of the rights of children and adolescents in our country.said the UCA, warning that 51.4 percent of children under 14 are poor in Argentina.

This Sunday, Children’s Day, the Observatory of Childhood and Adolescence of the Argentine Pediatric Society stated that “in the wake of very serious events, there has been much talk about food insecurity in children, and now that these alarming figures have emerged (…) no index is improving, but rather all indicators are worsening.”

This is believed to be a direct consequence of the destruction of wages, pensions, and the devaluation of social plans, and it is also what proves why poverty and indigence are increasing in Argentina. Another important fact is the increase in entire families sleeping on the streets with the coldest southern winter in recent years, and something that seemed like it would never be seen again in this country is the number of people looking for food in the trash.

Added to this is the continuation of hate speech that never ceases and the preparation of a security policy that, mounted from outside, will allow a real invasion of foreign spies, through new technologies, which evidently remains in the hands of the inevitable advisors of both the United States and Israel.

Meanwhile, the latest records show a series of difficult situations within the ruling LLA; there are internal fights, even in deputies and also the obvious attempt by Milei and her disturbing sister Karina, the bossas the president calls it, to displace the vice president, Victoria Villarruel.

Beyond these situations, Milei shows himself as the big winner.

The government celebrated with great joy the inflation of 4 percent in July; the closure of 10 thousand SMEs in seven months implies that 250 thousand jobs are lost, with salaries and pensions among the lowest in Latin Americawrites journalist Luis Bruchstein in his column Page/12.

He maintains that A general monthly inflation rate of four is very high with such a recessionadding that the corporate media celebrated the fact that it was the lowest inflation in 30 months, but at the cost of destroying the economy with the lowest recession in 30 years. Worse than that of 2001 and those of the pandemic.

She also alludes to the media’s use of Fabiola Yáñez’s accusations against former President Alberto Fernández, which conceals the tragedy that the Argentine population is experiencing. By the way, a new attack against Milei’s press reached both insiders and outsiders.