Javier Milei
Photographer: Francesca Volpi/Bloomberg“The Chainsaw Never Stops.” Milei’s Support Survives His Economic Experiment
Argentina’s libertarian president came to power promising to slash spending. Voters are suffering, yet polls show his support endures — for now.
To say that life hasn’t been easy in Argentina since Javier Milei won the presidency would be to downplay the everyday reality of a nation undergoing the equivalent of economic surgery.
In the eight months since he took office, prices have soared more than 100%, consumer spending tanked and unemployment climbed as Argentines have been submitted to the most brutal austerity shock in recent history.