Argentina: Pres. Milei to Veto Pension Reform Bill

Published AUG 24 2024

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Above: Pres. Javier Milei waves as he arrives at the 136th Expo Rural at La Rural Exhibition and Conference Centre on July 28, 2024, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Image credit: Tomas Cuesta/Stringer/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Spin

Left narrative

The brutal austerity program of the self-declared anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei has so far increased poverty to 55% and further aggravated annual inflation. And yet he continues to attack pensioners as if destroying their purchasing power was a silver bullet for solving Argentina's economic issues.

Peoples Dispatch EL PAÍS English

Right narrative

Milei took over a country in the depths of unprecedented economic and political turmoil, and he's already turning it around in six months. His market-based reforms are saving Argentina, and a veto on this new pension formula is the only way to protect the real purchasing power of pensions.

The Telegraph Daniel Lacalle on X