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A year of neoliberal devastation under Milei in Argentina
BERT SCHOUWENBURG details how the libertarian, radical-right president’s shock doctrine has pushed millions into poverty while dismantling the state and aligning with US imperialism and Israeli slaughter
Argentina's President Javier Milei speaks before President-elect Donald Trump during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, November 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla.
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LIKE many of Buenos Aires’s inhabitants, Fabian, the concierge in my apartment block, is of Paraguayan descent.
On the morning of November 20 last year, I asked him what he thought of Javier Milei’s landslide victory that had seen him elected president the night before. “Argentinians,” he said, “Simply never learn.”
A year on, the most right-wing president in modern Argentine history has lived up to his promise to transform the country by effectively dismantling the state and replacing it with private enterprise.
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