2024-02-19 11:24:31
Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner He once again resorted to his X account (ex Twitter) to criticize the government of Javier Milei and especially that of Mauricio MacrYo. This time he referred to the jump in lPoverty measured by the UCA and stated that this trend began in 2018, from the mega-indebtedness with the International Monetary Fund.
CFK shared a note from the newspaper Perfil and a table from the Argentine Social Debt Observatory that shows the evolution of urban poverty and indigence rates between January 2004 and January 2024. “in the much talked about, talked about and criticized ‘last 20 years’,” according to the former president. Milei himself had disseminated the UCA report and stated that the jump in poverty “is the true inheritance of the caste model.”
Cristina cited in response a paragraph from her latest document “Argentina in its third debt crisis – Situation Chart”:
“He could not continue in the government (I am referring to Macri), but the structural conditioning that his decisions regarding indebtedness meant, both due to the magnitude of its total volume with private bondholders and with the IMF, and due to the return of that organization multilateral in its role as auditor of the Argentine economy, still persists. With the government of Mauricio Macri, Argentina, like in the game of goose, went backwards by numbers. The government that followed could not or did not know how to cut this true Gordian knot of the Argentine economy.”
According to the former president, “if it were the Goose Game, when looking at the Observatory graph, rather than a complete decline we would be seeing how, Starting in 2018 – with debt in dollars and the return of the IMF at the hands of Mauricio Macri – we went backwards until we fell back to the starting point.”
And he concluded: “The real tragedy is that they are not playing a board game, but with the Argentinian table”.
Cristina Kirchner’s document
Last week the former president broke the public silence and issued a 33-page document in which he analyzed the Argentine economic reality and the first months of Javier Milei’s government.
There CFK described the current president as a “a showman-economist”pointed to indebtedness with the IMF and the lack of dollars as the country’s main economic problem and warned against the dollarization proposed by Milei.
The former president spoke of “planned chaos” that Milei’s economic plan implies and warned that the “ferocious adjustment program” is “a true destabilization plan.”