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The article mentions the austerity measures and the economic crisis, but not the link between both: the austerity measures are being done precisely to solve the crisis. As the article is written, it would seem as if the austerity measures were implemented just because of being evil, and the crisis is simply some background event that make things worse.
In particular, the description of the crisis conveniently forgets to mention the huge fiscal deficit, which is the reason for all those austerity measures and the cause of the inflation.
The "devaluation" of the peso does not seem quite noteworthy. It is a devaluation on paper, but the actual effects are quite limited: the official price of the US dollar was largely fictional anyway, because of the severe restrictions to acquire dollars by legal means.
It does not mention either that this crisis was the main topic of the 2023 elections, that Milei proposed to do exactly this (a giant austerity plan to solve the crisis), and that he's still popular.
The bill is not called an "Omnibus bill" as some imaginative media name. An Omnibus bill is an actual type of bill that already exists, and this one is exactly that (several topics being addressed by a single bill). The scare quotes are unneeded.
There is no mention to the unions in Argentina and their corporative ways, such as forced worker affiliation, forced affiliation to their medical services, and automatic substraction of money from worker wages to pay those things (that the worker never chosed, and can not drop out from). Things that the bill seeks to end... and that many suspect are the actual and real reason the CGT was making all this noise. They know that, if workers were free to decide which union to join (or not join any union at all) they would lose all their power.
The CGT is also hardly an impartial player in politics, and is fully aligned with Peronism and the Justicialist party. And nobody conceals that: many peronist governors and mayors took part in the demonstration, and they publicly supported Sergio Massa in the 2023 elections. Many newspapers pointed that the CGT never made a single strike against the former president Alberto Fernández, despite the dramatic increase of inflation and poverty under his rule, and contrasted that with the rush to make a general strike against Milei just a month after taking office.
During the speech, Pablo Moyano threatened that the workers would throw minister Luis Caputo into the river, which caused an outcry because it sounded so similar to the death flights during the dictatorship. Cambalachero (talk) 14:27, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I know little about Argentine politics but just reading the heading I could tell the article didn't appear very neutral.
The usage of 'only weeks' instead of just 'weeks' feels biased and not encyclopaedic. (Lots of politicians have had protests/issues just mere weeks after assuming office, especially in today's polarised landscape it's not unique and the use of 'only' implies something unique about the situation). Traumnovelle (talk) 07:56, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've just read through the Al Jazeera source and it doesn't support the claim "Milei's cost-cutting policies have made minor pleasures unattainable for Argentines". I think this article needs to a thorough review and rewriting from someone who understands the subject but is able to be objective. Traumnovelle (talk) 08:00, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
