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無政府主義 Artista latina. Raices conscientes de @Araukana1. Eng/Spa/日本語 compatible. Posts on games, music, social sciences, anarcho-feminism, etc. They/Them/She/Her

Dec 21, 2023, 10 tweets

For my english speaking buds in here, to let y'all know what's happening in my country:

At 9 PM today Javier Milei came in via national broadcast to announce the nullifying, by a DNU ("Necessity & Urgency Decree" - so a presidential edict), of around 300 laws, featuring...

1) The total deregulation of the housing market, including the enabling of landlords to charge rent in U$S

2) The derogation of protection for land sale - prior to this, sale of any plots of over 1000ha to foreign capital was forbidden

3) The sale of the complete stock...

...package of national oil, airlines, and other services companies to private funds.

Among others. This comes on the back of a takeaway from subsidies that would make transport in the urban center (we are talking about the most urbanized country in the world) about 10 times...

more expensive, with bus tickets going from $50 to $500. Also, on the commemoration of the 2001 uprising, loudspeaker announcements (this is totally new to society) and signs at train stops and buses gave an Orwellian message on how "if you are identified at a protest, ...

...you'll lose your social welfare plan". One specially peculiar thing was the name of Elon Musk's Starlink (something quite wild - the mention by name of a beneficiary company in a national broadcast) as a likely takeover contract for Argentina's national satellite...

...system (ARSAT) - as another blatant show of the kind of backyard sale Milei is about to enact on national resources.

The DNU's implications not only target the poorer in society, but also the urban middle classes, which have taken to the streets of the capital to protest...

I'll be writing more as events unfold, but please, do spare a thought for what's happening. Shit's gonna get uglier, fast.

To add more to this thread:

There is also the complete deregulation of the labor market and labor protections. Complete oversight on employee indemnity after firing, with or without a cause. Milei has pretty much fired against every sector. He even aims to derogate...

...a law that gives primacy to generic medicine supplies so that big pharma can establish pricing as well as establish contracts with doctors and private healthcare to give priority to branded prescriptions.

Last week, the preliminary measures in the country signified...

, over the course of only three days, price hikes across the entire common goods sector that in some cases surpassed 100%. We were seeing kiosk owners shattered because providers were updating pricing - by the hour. It is utter chaos.

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