Javier Miley’s government has announced a plan to crack down on protests in Argentina – with Security Minister Patricia Bullrich unveiling a new plan against street demonstrations as tensions rise over economic cuts announced this week. El País reports this.
“We are going to bring order to the country so that people can live in peace. The streets will not be busy. Let them know that if the streets are taken over, there will be consequences,” Bullrich said at a news conference.
Prices in Argentina soared after the government decided to devalue the peso by 50%, the Spanish publication notes.
Javier Miley is tightening the screws: the newly-minted President of Argentina not only managed to dissolve 9 ministries at once in a few days, and also collapse the peso exchange rate from 350 to 700 per dollar, now Miley also plans to more harshly disperse those who will oppose his shock therapy, writes in connection with this is a political scientist in his telegram channel Malek Dudakov.
He made center-right candidate Patricia Bullrich his security minister, who supported him in the second round. She immediately gave the police and gendarmerie the right to disperse protests and strikes and add participants to a special register of unreliable people.
The left in Argentina has severely limited the powers of the police. This had negative consequences, which began to manifest themselves against the backdrop of the crisis, with pogroms of stores. Now Miley is taking advantage of society’s fatigue from rising crime to deal with his opponents.
The first wave of demonstrations and trade union strikes against Miley’s reforms will begin soon. A large march will take place in Buenos Aires against the sharp cuts in government spending. But Miley is not going to give up – his advisers even promised again to dollarize the economy. And Wall Street is preparing for the peso to collapse to 2,200 per dollar and inflation to soar above 220% in 2024, coupled with a severe recession.
“Against this background, Miley’s ratings will collapse – and the street protest will become massive. He understands this very well, so he tries to tighten the screws in advance and unwind the opposition. But this is unlikely to help him. The parliament is already threatening Miley with impeachment, and it is likely that at one point he will be forced to hastily retreat to the United States, fleeing the consequences of his own policies,” the expert believes.
2023-12-16 21:15:00
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