OPINION & ANALYSIS
Milei’s relentless chainsaw – the great campaign promise he kept
Yesterday 21:07 Several of the grandest presidential commitments made by Argentina’s President on the campaign trail in 2023 have been shelved and apparently forgotten: dollarisation, the implosion of the Central Bank and the total eradication of inflation. Without support from the IMF or the United States, those objectives would have proved unviable. But there is one point nobody can dispute: the fiscal surplus. In scarcely two years, the government has reversed a historic deficit with the deepest austerity since the return of democracy. But the discussion still pending is the political, social and institutional cost.
