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A Nationwide Shutdown Tests Milei’s Tough Medicine for Argentina [1]

['Jack Nicas', 'Lucía Cholakian Herrera']

Date: 2024-01-24

It has been six weeks since President Javier Milei took office in Argentina, and since then, gas prices have doubled, inflation has soared and the value of the national currency has plummeted.

Such turmoil, he had warned, should be expected. Fixing decades of economic problems would first require more pain, he said.

Yet on Wednesday, many Argentines took to the streets to show they have already had enough.

Argentina’s largest labor unions called for a nationwide strike — including workers in transportation, construction, health care, food services, energy and banking — to protest Mr. Milei’s planned overhauls, arguing they would weaken protections for workers and the poor.

Banks and many shops closed, doctors postponed surgeries, waste collection stopped and airlines canceled hundreds of flights, while thousands of people filled the streets in overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/world/americas/argentina-union-strike-javier-milei.html

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