No trains, buses, or subways for 24 hours. Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires should appear empty this Thursday, without much of the 3 million people who pass through it every day, most of them on public transport. In addition, about 400 flights will be canceled, affecting 70,000 passengers, according to the Latin American Air Transport Association.
Five months after the coming to power of Javier Miley, who likes to call himself an anarcho-capitalist, the country will experience a second general strike, and demonstrations of various sizes are already taking place in the country every day.
This call for a general strike, announced by several trade unions, including the influential Peronist CGT, aims to condemn “the brutal adjustment in defense of labor and trade union rights and decent wages.” This strike is worth watching more than the previous one on January 24th.
President condemns ‘strictly political’ strike
However, the political impact may still be smaller compared to the large marches for the university on April 24 (a million demonstrators nationwide), which are by far the strongest mobilization hostile to Miley.
This time, the president again denounces a “strictly political” strike and unions “breaking records for the speed and number of strikes”, facing a government “barely in office.” And unions that are going “against what the people voted for five months ago.”
Chosen as “a providential man who came to solve problems that the elites had ignored for years,” Javier Miley is well regarded among the population. Several recent polls show his favorable image ranges between 45 and 50% (he was elected with 56%). A form of impressive stability for a leader who, in a matter of months, devalued, freed prices, “cut” spending and government aid.
Moreover, despite his rather aggressive speeches, Javier Miley seems to be able to unite people in practice, even if this means making some concessions. At the end of April, he adopted amendments to his bill with a series of deregulatory reforms. So much so that he will be able to find a coalition to govern even if he has only 37 deputies out of 257.
“Miley has only one variable in mind: inflation,” said Carlos Rodriguez, once close to the new president. “The adaptation plan is to simply pay nothing, with cost reductions across all sectors in the first months. But I don’t see a plan. »
Source: Le Parisien
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