Persistent inflation, rising unemployment, and corruption cases are creating the worst possible panorama for the president’s public image

Persistent inflation, rising unemployment, and corruption cases are creating the worst possible panorama for the president’s public image

In a scenario constructed from the official statistics promoted by the government, Javier Milei’s Argentina is a happy world: poverty is falling to its lowest level in the last seven years, economic activity is reaching record highs, and fiscal balance is being maintained.

But, simultaneously, more and more people say that their present situation doesn’t align with the successes touted by the far-right president, a disconnect pointed out not only by his detractors but even by figures of economic orthodoxy aligned with his policies.

  • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    4 hours ago

    Ok, i will try to be polite

    Unlike most of Latin America and its racial admixture, Argentina is just colonizer land, something like 90%+ of people there are purely of European origins

    That number refers to people with european roots, not pure european origin. And yes, it has to do with colonizers and genocide, but it also has to do with a lower native population compared to other parts of america and to the fact that between 1870 and 1910 we got overflown in immigrants mainly coming from italy and spain. Think of a 1/2 ratio of immigrants to nationals… they mixed, they reshaped everything, our culture, our accent, our schools, our products amd exports…

    many of them white supremacist fascists coming from Italy and Germany in WW2.

    That… i mean “yes, there were nazi and fascist refugees in argentina” but we are talking about thousands… not millions… its not like we are speaking german on the streets. This isn’t a hollywood movie, right?

    They brought their ideology and takes with them, and there already was a fertile base for it before too, and

    … i cant follow you… are you citing Peron, the populist guy who tried to mimic and mix fascism and stalinism, or the ever dying oligarchs (you know, the dudes that were pushing military coups). bothe were and were not nazis in their way… what they definitely were not was racists.

    (at least from my understanding)

    Ah, that explains

    they’ll

    Oh, wow.

    vote for the obviously amoral and deranged pale man

    yes, a lot of people sadly voted for milei

    because “he’s one of us and that’s what matters”, in a very Trumpian American manner.

    No, it wasnt like that