Argentine government announces the closure of two state transport companies

Sputnik

La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, p. 31

Buenos Aires., The Argentine government announced the closure of a railway company that had 1,388 employees, Trenes Argentinos Capital Humano, and also moved forward with the closure of the Argentine Transport Institute, which represents the dissolution of the first state companies under the current management chaired by Javier Milei.

The dissolution of the second company, created in 2014, was due to never worked or issued a decision or actionpointed out the Ministry of Economy.

In a decree, the Executive alleged that many of the Institute’s powers overlapped with the tasks of the Ministry of Transportation and the National Road Safety Agency.

The government of far-right Javier Milei alleged that the closure of both companies is intended to reduce the State and contribute to greater efficiency of resources to reduce public spending and achieve fiscal balance, the two priorities of his administration.

This week the president will issue a decree to declare the state-owned AerolĂ­neas Argentinas subject to privatization, despite the fact that it was excluded from the companies that could pass into private hands in the negotiations to sanction in Congress a fundamental law that deregulates the economy, the Bases Law. and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines.

Meanwhile, the panel of human rights organizations expressed solidarity with the journalist from Page/12 Luciana Bertoia, who received an intimidating message from the genocidal prisoners in Unit 34 of Campo de Mayo, and demanded that the government explain why the repressors have access to social networks.

The criminals have had an X account since July in which they call themselves Living Dead. From there, on Monday they published a letter to Luciana Bertoia in which the they invited to a debate dispassionate within the military garrison in which more than four clandestine centers operated.

This publication, which they try to camouflage as an invitation, is an open threat to the specialist in human rights issues, defender of the policies of memory, truth and justice, deeply committed to investigating and denouncing the pact of impunity that is being developed between the government of La Libertad Avanza and the repressors. Threat that is made public two days after the president insulted journalists at an event in Parque Lezamasaid human rights organizations.