Stella Calloni
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, p. 24
Buenos Aires. One year after his arrival to the government, President Javier Milei, of the far-right La Libertad Avanza, announced last night the application of a deep chainsaw to impose more adjustments, a strategy that has led to poverty, hunger, unemployment, the violation of all rights and has produced the greatest destruction of state organizations with anti-constitutional decrees, promising 90 percent reduced taxes by ensuring that the world talks about miracle Argentinean.
Next year we will have sustained growth. The economy has entered a cyclical recovery. We are close to the definitive exit of the exchange rate, which will end next year and foreversaid the president, and asserted that inflation will be a bad memorycelebrating the evolution from 25.5 percent monthly in December of last year – when the peso devalued 52 percent – to 2.7 percent in October, according to the latest official data available.
He explained that to get out of the exchange restrictions “we are working on a definitive solution for the stocks of the Central Bank. It can be done through a new program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an agreement with private investors. To move forward with the closure of the Central Bank, we have announced a currency competition scheme so that all Argentines can use the one they want in everyday transactions. For now, tax payments will continue to be in pesos.”
He thanked the population for their sacrifices, stating: Today all social assistance is assigned directly to the beneficiaries. We deliver on our promise to care for the most vulnerable during the adjustmentat a time when there are thousands of families in a food emergency. And from your point of view The world today turns its gaze to Argentina again for the right reasons. Citizens and investors from all over the world are evaluating the possibility of living here. The United States is designing its own deregulation ministry in the image and likeness of ours.
In the last few hours, new decrees from your government were known that seriously affect the indigenous peoples, by eliminating all legal protection, at the same time that it decided to lower the age from 21 to 18 years to carry weapons, a project of the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich.
Meanwhile, the budgets allocated to nothing less than education, science and culture that made this country stand out in the world were reduced. All this meant an escalation of layoffs.
The past became present
The Center for Legal and Social Studies describes these 12 months of LLA government as the year in which the past became present, and maintains that It has been a long time since the 70s, the dictatorship and the review of its crimes did not have the political centrality that they achieved in 2024.
In fact, the president has denied the existence of the 30,000 missing people. Any type of attack against human rights organizations has been allowed, especially by depriving the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo of the budget to search for their grandchildren, children of the disappeared. The University of Mothers continues to resist attempts to eliminate it. They are also trying to close the memory sites and those that were clandestine detention centers by announcing the possibility of selling those lands.
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