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‘Prison or bullet’: new Argentina government promises harsh response to protest
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2023
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Hi, sorry that it took me so long to answer this one. Hmmm. I understand your point about the severance, but I need to underscore that even if it's legal, it does not mean it is the right way to solve the situation. The severances are indiscriminate, not accounting really if the worker is good or not. And are motivated on ideologies much more than efficiency. For example, most of the "chainsaw" as he call his austerity measures, are done on the public healthcare system, public education system, and such. He is even withdrawing funding from Memory Sites (places where the 76' dictatorship executed, tortured, raped, kidnapped the oposition). But it is not cutting funding from the executive branches, legislative branches or judicial branches of the government, and also is trying to privatize many state-owned companies. Just like the dictatorship did...
In case of the app thing, well, it is the second time it has done this.
Economically speaking there seems to be stability. Now, how much it will last, I can't say. People are poorer now than in the last 20 years, prices still are skyhigh in much of the basic goods, at least in my understanding, and salaries have not matched yet the inflation the shock measures released. So workers are still losing economic power. Also, companies have more benefits (mostly not good for workers).
His agenda as I see it is selling the country to the highest bidder, basically. Being a Social Conservative, he just is a apathetic being who does not give a single flying fvck about those who are not in a comfortable position capable of resisting the measures. Nor he cares about upholding the Memory Thruth and Justice legacy we made this 40+ years. Hiis government is mostly composed of ex-neonazis, fascists, orthodox catholics (and surprisingly, orthodox jews in at least a few cases), anti-communist, etc.
The Vice-President is a woman. The daughter of a military men who refused to uphold democracy's values and apologize for what the government did to the people during the "Dirty War". A history revisionist who believes that the systematic kidnapping, torture, killing of the oposition, theft of newborns and rape commited by the state thugs, military, police, death squads were warranted in the fight against "subversion" and marxists.
This is my view, at least. Other Argentinians might differ slightly or more with me, and I'am a leftist, so bias might exist as with any other person. What i'm saying is not to discredit my opinion, but to help you grasp where i'm coming from. That is not to say I can't be wrong.