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This March, Argentina’s school year began with empty classrooms. The price of learning materials rose by 502% over the past year, leaving many children unprepared for the year to come. And the teachers? On strike after President Javier Milei announced deep cuts to their salaries. There’s something much larger happening here: Workers rights are under attack in an already vastly unequal society.
TV personality and self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist, the eccentric economist promised to correct Argentina’s path and make what he called the “political caste” pay for their mismanagement of the country. Wielding a chainsaw while he campaigned, Milei vowed to eliminate state ministries, abolish the central bank, roll back abortion rights, and dollarize the economy. As one Argentine told a journalist, “The caste doesn’t take the train nor any form of public transit. We workers and students do.
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