Ultra-right Javier Milei will be the new president of Argentina if Bolsonaro and Trump congratulate

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“…The result shows that Milei was not only able to retain the votes from the first round, but was also able to add up the majority of votes from Patricia Bullrich from the opposition party alliance Juntos por el Cambio and possibly from other smaller parties. (…) The question now arises as to what part of his extreme program Milei will actually carry out, as he has recently contradicted himself very often. His main promises were to abolish the central bank and replace its own currency, the peso, with the US dollar as legal tender, as Ecuador did in 2000. He has also announced a massive dismantling of the state apparatus, including the abolition of several ministries, the cancellation of numerous aid and social programs, the privatization of state-owned companies, the health system and even education…”Post by Miguel Arndt on November 20th, 2023 in Amerika21 – see analyses, backgrounds and perspectives:

• [Law on the “Inviolability of Private Property”] Freedom for tech fascism in Argentina – and the resistance against Peter Thiel
  • Protests against Peter Thiel in Argentina
    “Buenos Aires. On August 29th, hundreds of people protested again against the presence of the German-born US billionaire and entrepreneur Peter Thiel in the city. The demonstrators,partly masked and colorfully costumed , gathered in front of his residence in the exclusive Palermo Chico district near the center of the Argentine capital, chanted slogans against the Super-Rigi investment promotion law ( Amerika21 reported) as well as for the protection of the environment against energy-hungry and water-polluting projects in Patagonia and called for Thiel's “express eviction”. The latter was an allusion to the polemical reform proposal of the Land Law (Ley de Tierras), which would abolish its regulations and maximum limits for the acquisition of strategic and protected areas of land by foreign investors. It also contained a regulation for the accelerated eviction of land and real estate. (…) A few months ago, Thiel announced that he was moving to Argentina with his husband and two children and had already purchased a luxurious residence there. Like one recentlypublished by the magazine “Revista Anfibia”. However, Thiel has shown interest in the country for at least a decade. His company Palantir had already tried to get the digitized files of the 1994 AMIA attack in 2017 and registered the Palantir Argentina trademark in 2022. His investment fund also recently acquired shares in Vista Energy, which is active in the Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas field in Patagonia…”Article by Miguel Arndt from September 7th, 2026 in Amerika21 
  • Freedom for tech fascism
    “Argentina's President Javier Milei wants to offer foreign investors the best conditions with the law on the "inviolability of private property."
    Javier Milei dreams of data centers in Patagonia and robot factories where no people work anymore. The country is rich in raw materials that AI providers need. Due to the lack of regulation, it offers itself as a laboratory for AI developments that cannot be enforced elsewhere by courts or due to pressure from civil society. For Milei, the law on the “inviolability of private property” is a key to this project. It complements the Rigi and Super-Rigi laws, which make it easier for investors to run companies in Argentina. As is well known, Milei's motto is "Viva la libertad, carajo" (Long live freedom, damn it). What is meant is the freedom of investors.
    Thanks to the broad resistance to the new private property law, two key parts did not pass in the Senate. However, two other parts were approved and they will mean further loss of living space in the city and the country if the Chamber of Representatives later agrees: Tenants should be able to be thrown out of apartments more quickly if they are in arrears with the so-called express eviction. A tenant protection activist explains: "Many tenants have to pay their rent in cash and then do not receive legally valid payment receipts." Patricia Bullrich, Senator for the City of Buenos Aires, explained that eviction is the express goal of the new private property laws.
    Milei opens the door for Peter Thiel
    In April it was announced that Palantir founder Peter Thiel had bought a house in Buenos Aires. Detailed research by “Revista Anfibia” now shows that Thiel and his right-wing libertarian network partners have been seeking influence on politics in Argentina for years. A broad awareness and resistance movement against Thiel and AI is currently emerging in the country. People understand that AI means, above all, surveillance and thus a further dimension of loss of sovereignty that goes beyond technology and geopolitics: democracy is threatened not only by Milei with the support of Trump, but also by Thiel and his openly anti-democratic companions, who are pushing forward a new form of dictatorship with ultra-libertarian and right-wing heads of government: tech fascism…”Article by Nina Galla from September 4th, 2026 in ND online 
  • See also dossier:Big data in the police: (Not only) Hesse is (not only) looking for dangerous people with Palantir software
• The sell-out in Argentina is progressing at a somewhat weaker pace, with the support of tear gas and water cannons (and again an injured photographer).
  • After protests in Argentina: Javier Milei concedes defeat in parliament
    “The Argentine Senate weakens a law to deregulate land ownership in crucial areas. Tenant protection is still being undermined.
    The Argentine Senate voted on Friday night for a “law on the inviolability of private property”. 37 senators voted yes, 33 voted against. The narrow majority only came about after the government quickly withdrew two controversial parts of the law. The approval of the House of Representatives is still pending.
    Several thousand people gathered in front of the completely cordoned off congress building to demonstrate against the bill. The trade union umbrella organization CGT, together with left-wing parties and social organizations, called for this. Heavy rain prevented larger participation.
    In the end there were violent clashes between demonstrators and police units. Throwing stones and bottles were met with rubber bullets and tear gas. There were injuries and at least 26 people were arrested.
    To avoid defeat in the vote, the government initially withdrew the part of the law that would have allowed foreign individuals, companies and investment funds to purchase and own land without restrictions. It had argued that existing ownership restrictions hindered investment. Liberalization was intended to attract more foreign capital.
    Protection against forest fires is not gutted
    In contrast, the opposition feared an increased sell-off of strategically important agricultural land, a threat to food security, the loss of national sovereignty over land and natural resources, disadvantages for indigenous communities and a further expansion of the raw material-oriented economic model. In the course of the debate, a planned deregulation of forest fire management was also withdrawn, through which the current protection of burned-out natural and agricultural areas would be relaxed. It is still forbidden to use grassland, bushland, forest areas and agricultural land for other purposes for a period of 30 years after a fire. This regulation is intended in particular to prevent speculation and real estate transactions on burned areas…”Article by Jürgen Vogt from August 7th, 2026 in the taz online 
  • Milei also had to give up his firefighting law
    “Bullrich had to accept another defeat - after the failure of the foreign ownership regulation for land
    Amid the violent repression of a mass rally and after the government was forced to withdraw the core of the “Law on the Inviolability of Private Property” due to the successful social resistance to the foreign takeover of land, the government was also forced to give in to the reform of the fire suppression law in order to be able to bring the preliminary adoption of its shortened legislative initiative to a vote.
    With a weakened majority, the government group passed the law on the inviolability of private property with 37 votes in favor and 33 against, but lost another key chapter: the changes to the law on firefighting. This is the second defeat in a row for Patricia Bullrich. Without the chapter on foreign ownership of land, the heart of the bill, the Libertarian caucus chair met with the sole aim of adopting a dismantled text that would allow it to cover up the previous day's failure. The government has been weakened and lost allies due to political and social pressure that has increased in the past two weeks to prevent foreign ownership of land. Peronism received the draft resolution only an hour before the start of the meeting and requested that the text be referred back to the committee. The rejection of José Mayans' proposal with 38 votes against and only 31 in favor gave an indication that the government group would achieve what it had aimed for. Meanwhile, near the convention, a crowd defied police water cannon and tear gas shells and chanted against the country's extradition promoted by Milei. Another photographer was injured while reporting. (…) The text, which proposed new relaxations of the firefighting law (which were eventually scrapped), limiting the state's powers in expropriations and allowing "express evictions", was presented to the opposition an hour before the start of the session.The Security Ministry helped its former minister draw public attention to a relentless repression that continued throughout the afternoon, with a disproportionate and out-of-control deployment. At around 9 p.m., Senator Di Tullio pointed out that a photographer had been taken to Argerich Hospital with serious injuries. "We are holding a meeting in the middle of a catastrophe on the street. The government is angry with the people because they thwarted it and had to delete the chapter on foreign ownership of land," she denounced…” span.Article by Paula Marussich from August 7, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated)
  • You have to tear it down. Evictions of tenants: What does the law say about the inviolability of private property and how does it adversely affect tenants?
    “The bill has been voted on in the Senate, but it is not yet law. The government suffered a defeat by removing points on land sales and fire management from the bill, and protest on the streets ahead of its consideration in the House of Representatives is likely to increase. Serious attacks on those who do not own their own homes remain. The details.
    In the early hours of this Friday, after a session of more than ten hours in the Senate, the government of Javier Milei received preliminary approval of the bill on the inviolability of private property. The vote on the bill ended with an extremely narrow result of 37 votes in favor to 33 against, highlighting the decline in support for “La Libertad Avanza” in the upper house. The ruling party was forced to negotiate under great pressure and to delete entire chapters from the original bill, such as those relating to the land law and the relaxation of the law on firefighting, in the face of massive social pressure that extended across the entire national territory.
    This legislative regression prevented passage of the chapter, which aimed to authorize intentional fires in protected areas, forests and wetlands to benefit real estate projects and other lucrative businesses.Nevertheless, the structural reform, which facilitates evictions and undermines the rights of renting families, was able to prevail and was largely passed. The text, which must now be forwarded to the Chamber of Deputies for further consideration and final adoption, provides for a radical change in the rules of the game with regard to eviction actions for urban and rural properties. This reform promotes expedited court proceedings and shortens basic procedural time limits, thereby establishing an oppressive system that leaves tenants completely unprotected.
    The 10 most important points on how the law restricts your rights and makes evictions easier
    Chapter 2 of the Law on the Inviolability of Private Property provides for amendments to the National Commercial Procedure Code and the National Civil and Commercial Code (CPCCN). This means that while some provinces have their own codes, in principle any provincial court can apply this change to any urban or rural residential eviction across the country. This attack is related to the repeal of the Rental Law passed in 2022 by Decree 70/2023, which means that there is currently no fixed contract period, no indexation rates and no fixed currency…” span.Article by Leire Vila from August 7th in La Izquierda Diario with legal details (machine translated)
  • Tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons were used
    “Brutal repression of the demonstrators who demonstrated that the fatherland should not be sold
    This afternoon, as the Senate debated the so-called “Inviolability of Private Property” bill, security forces moved in on the massive demonstration outside the fenced-off Congress building. A photographer was hit in the head and taken to Argerich Hospital…” span.Report from August 6, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated) and ibid.a photo gallery 
  • Argentina: Popular mobilization forces Milei government to retreat
    “The CTA-T, the CTA-A, the CGT and numerous social organizations have once again organized a mobilization against a bill from the Milei government.
    A large rally took place in front of the congress in Buenos Aires. The aim is to facilitate the appropriation of land and property by the for-profit private sector. The provisions presented to MPs aimed, among other things, at facilitating the eviction of indebted tenants as well as expropriation and real estate speculation. The demonstrations have forced the government to partially revise its draft, but the danger remains.
    Trade unions and social organizations are leading the fight against the right-wing extremist regime in all areas: for the rights of workers in companies and the service sector, in cities and villages, for the rights of women and LGBTQI+ people, for memory, truth and justice for the victims of the dictatorship that Milei and his allies want to “forget”...
    The state responded again with repression: tear gas, water cannons and then shots at the demonstrators, which left numerous people injured.
    The affiliates of the International Trade Union Network for Solidarity and Struggle reaffirm their support for the trade unionists of Argentina and the Argentine people in their actions to defend their rights and against the reactionary measures.” SpanishDeclaration of solidarity from August 6, 2026 by the alternative trade union network for solidarity and struggle (machine translated)
  • Argentina: Civil society criticism of the planned lobby control law
    "The Argentine government under President Javier Milei has drafted a law whose stated aim is to promote transparency in the context of lobbying. However, according to human rights organizations, the proposed law aims to control civil society organizations of all kinds that assert their information rights against authorities and state bodies. (…)
    Amnesty International, the human rights organization Centro de Estudios Sociales y Legales (CELS), the feminist organization Equipo Latinoamericano de Género (ELA), the Buenos Aires Press Union (SiPreBA) and other organizations criticize the draft as a “law to monitor social participation”. They fear that the Argentine government could take a greater turn towards authoritarian politics with the planned control of interest groups. In a joint statement, they criticize that the definition of “interest representation” contained in the draft is too broad. “Normal activities in a democracy” such as meeting with representatives, initiating reforms or participating in public debates would be “permanently subject to state control”, regardless of whether the initiatives are civic engagement or commercial activities. “Under this regime, organizations whose role includes controlling the authorities would be subject to increased surveillance and control by those same authorities, which would affect their independence and ability to act,” the civil society organizations explain. They cite a particularly sensitive aspect of the bill as its “potential impact on freedom of expression, journalism and democratic access to information relating to matters of public interest”.The planned law could make participation in public debates more difficult and “in particular, directly affect the functioning of independent journalism that is aimed at democratic control, research and control of the accountability of state authorities.” (…)
    According to the bill, government and parliamentary representatives must also record “all communications” (meetings, emails, etc.) between civil servants, employees or government advisors and interest groups if the communication “aims to present interests, points of view, arguments, suggestions, information or demands intended to influence public decision-making.” “The details of the participants, the topic of communication and a summary of the ‘matters discussed’” would have to be documented. If these requirements are not met, the draft law provides for administrative and criminal sanctions, which civil society organizations criticize as excessive and unlawful. Civil penalties include fines and permanent suspension for violations such as submitting false or incomplete reports. In addition, the draft law provides for four new criminal offenses for interest groups, which can be punished with prison sentences of between six months and four years: false statements or serious concealment, hidden interest groups, the secret representation of foreign interests and intentional obstruction. The civil society organizations criticize an asymmetry, as the draft law only provides for the categorization of state employees who violate the regulations as “serious offenses…” Article by Gabriela Mitidieri and Ute Löhning from August 5, 2026 at the Latin America news pool – is still pending…
  • Protests against Milei are spreading in Argentina: social organizations are criticizing the right-wing government's austerity policies and labor market reforms
    “Buenos Aires. Teachers' unions and dock workers are shaping a new wave of protests against President Javier Milei this week. They blame the government for the loss of purchasing power, the underfunding of public education, the deregulation of the labor market and reforms that, in their view, dismantle social gains of the past decades.
    The escalation of social conflicts coincides with a further intensification of the president's rhetoric. In a television interview, Milei stated that there were “terrorists disguised as students, journalists, professors and scientists,” triggering sharp criticism from the opposition, trade unions and university associations…”Article by Sven Hanfstängl Reuss from August 8th, 2026 in Amerika21
• Argentina: Test laboratory for Palantir. The US data analysis company wants to gain a foothold in Argentina and has a willing partner in President Milei
  "It could be an agreement with serious consequences for the rights of Argentines: At the beginning of February, Argentina and the USA signed an agreement on mutual trade and investment. The official goals: increasing beef exports, abolishing tariffs and investment incentives. The agreement is primarily intended to create a legal framework that gives US companies unhindered access to the country. This would also apply to the US data analysis company Palantir. (…)
  Thiel was in Buenos Aires last April. He bought a house worth $12 million and met with Argentina's ultra-right President Javier Milei. What are Palantir's goals in Argentina? »Palantir is not here to create Excel spreadsheets. It comes to gain power over this society's data," Argentine scientist Ariel Garbarz warned jW.
  But the details are still vague: nothing is known of a concrete agreement. Should the company create a database of migrants like it does for the US immigration agency ICE? Should he intensify surveillance of the population? Or even manipulate next year's elections in Milei's favor? Whether with a formal agreement or not, according to Garbarz, it is already becoming apparent that the Milei government is "opening the door for a foreign private company to penetrate the information technology heart of the Argentine state." Palantir sees the country as a testing laboratory.
  The scientist therefore calls in the jW interview for the company to be placed under parliamentary supervision. It needs “data protection regulations, an express ban on use for electoral purposes and an obligation to explain which databases it compares with which algorithms, for which purposes and under what authority. “No agreement with Palantir should be pushed forward as a secret executive branch initiative,” said Garbarz.
  A group of opposition MPs have already submitted two questions to Congress this year demanding information from the government about what was decided at the meeting between Milei and Thiel. She hasn’t received any answers yet…” Article by Florencia Beloso in the young world of May 20, 2026 
• Labor of the right: Argentina's President Javier Milei agitates against the poor and minorities and consistently pursues an authoritarian restructuring of the state
  "It is Saturday morning, there is a cold wind. Nevertheless, around a hundred people have gathered for a demonstration at the subway station "Entre Ríos - Rodolfo Walsh" in Buenos Aires. Young, old, men and women. They are demanding that the station be renamed "Victims of Terrorism." In 1976, a member of the urban guerrilla Montoneros carried out a bomb attack on a police canteen nearby. 23 people The demonstrators are convinced that the man behind the attack was anything but proven.
  As signs are handed out around us and music blares from the speakers of a truck parked on the corner, the man begins to become more and more interested in me. He wants to know where I come from. Who I work for. What I think of Milei. What about women's and gay rights, "mass immigration" to Europe. Maybe I'm a leftist, maybe even one of those leftists who claim to be journalists but actually pursue a political agenda. (…)
  The Milei government has declared journalists, photographers and other media workers its enemies. The president himself repeatedly says: "We don't hate journalists enough." He even created his own acronym for it: NOLSALP. This is what he uses to post on social media, in which he also defames journalists as “shit,” “human scum,” “politician prostitutes,” or “bought.” The daily newspaper La Nación counted 410 attacks on the press directly from the head of state during the first year of government alone. Milei named more than 60 journalists. Martina Noailles is a journalist and active in Sipreba, the press union of Buenos Aires. She says the president is making violence against journalists socially acceptable. (…)
  Milei has made cruelty the basis of his government program. The ultra-right relies on the normalization of brutality. He even seems to want to give the impression that he enjoys it. On the one hand, the brutality is discursive, as when he insults, defames and laughs at people who think differently, the marginalized and the oppressed. On the other hand, discursive violence materializes in the form of police repression, the gutting of state institutions, the dismantling of rights, the withdrawal of aid, economic precarization or physical violence. (…)
  The sociologist Ezequiel Ipar researches this topic in the “Laboratorio de Estudios sobre Democracia y Autoritarismos” (LEDA) at the National University of San Martín, among others. (…) It is about making suffering and hardship, which in other times would have been considered irrational or politically unacceptable, socially acceptable. “Cruelty plays an important role,” says Ipar. (…)
  Milei and the international ultra-right of which he is a part are not working to abolish the bourgeois-democratic system. Rather, it is being undermined. (…) Marcela Perelman, who heads the research department at the human rights organization CELS, observes that the topic of remembrance of the military dictatorship is playing a greater role in the Milei government than in previous governments. The politics of remembrance is under attack. (…)
  A worrying development, especially given the Milei government's handling of opposition and protest. Perelman speaks of a "fighting strategy" in this regard: "The extent of repression with which mobilizations and demonstrations are met is significant," she says. Human rights organizations like the Abuelas in particular are victims of stigmatization and reputation-damaging campaigns. The accusation: They enriched themselves fraudulently…” Article by Frederic Schnatterer in the Junge Welt from April 14, 2026 as a preprint from the book "Freedom for whom? Mileis Argentina as an experimental laboratory of the ultra-right" in Papyrossa-Verlag, Cologne 2026, 190 pages, 16.90 euros)
• By decree into the dark past: Argentine President Javier Milei is dismantling democracy and expanding online surveillance
  "The celebratory mood for the New Year lasted just one day in Argentina. On January 2nd, it was announced that the Milei government had announced that two days earlier in the last minutes of the old yearEmergency Decree 941/2025 had issued. The decree significantly expands the powers of the Argentine secret service SIDE (Secretaría de Inteligencia del Estado). Accordingly, from now on all SIDE activities can be carried out “covertly”. Agents can also make arrests without a warrant, SIDE can request support from the army for domestic operations, and civil registration authorities must hand over data to the secret service. The action brings back memories of the Argentine military dictatorship. Argentina had made exemplary efforts to come to terms with the dictatorship for years, but Milei is now turning things back again. “This decree leads to the most serious change to date, as the secret services have not been granted such powers since the civil-military dictatorship,” says Beatriz Busaniche from theVia Libre Foundation worried. Also the organizationLa Coordinadora Contra la Represión Policial e Institucional (CORREPI), the measure “recalls the worst practices of the darkest period of our history, the civil-military dictatorship of 1976-1983,” as she writes on Instagram. (…)
  Increasing surveillance is not the biggest problem for most people in Argentina. Rather, they are busy fighting against everyday police violence and cuts in health and education. And high unemployment and rising costs of living are also pushing state surveillance and repression into the background. “They arrest us anyway if they want,” is the tenor of the politically active. (…)
  The reform of the Milei government will further increase surveillance, repression and violence in the country. The new AI unit UIAAS reports to the Ministry of Security and facial recognition is on the agenda of the capital's public prosecutor's office. But it must be assumed that there will also be links to SIDE. Manuel Tufró, Director of Justice and Security atCentro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) , is not very optimistic that Parliament, the judiciary and civil society can achieve transparency: “It will be extremely difficult to identify the tools of facial recognition, spyware, AI and techniques such as cyber patrol used,” says Tufró, “since the decree stipulated that all activities related to SIDE must be carried out ‘covertly’.”
  The parliamentary opposition wants to fend off the latest decree on intelligence reform in Congress. However, it remains to be seen when and whether she will succeed. It was weakened after the midterm elections in October. At the same time, Milei does not have his own majority in Congress either. In addition, there is a summer break in Argentina and the congress does not meet again until March. Last Monday, some MPs requested judicial intervention. They demand that the decree be declared unconstitutional sooner and seek an injunction to suspend it immediately. International attention could be good for this resistance so that this decree, like the ban on demonstrations, does not remain in force for two years before it is annulled by the courts.” Guest article by Nina Galla from January 6, 2026 at Netzpolitik.org 
  • See also NGOs likeVia Libre ,Association for the Derechos Civiles (ADC) orObservatorio de Derecho Informatico Argentino (ODIA) 
• The dollar, the high prices, the instability... Milei's party - or Trump? – wins midterm elections in Argentina: Surprising, but not overwhelming
  • Trump claims responsibility for Argentina election result: AND THE WINNER IS...
    “The US President considered that La Libertad Avanza's victory was the result of "very strong support" for Milei. He also gave "great credit" to Scott Bessent's role and emphasized that the United States "has a good handle on the countries of South America."
    The United States and the Search for “South American Management.”
    The right wing won in the south and the north rejoiced
    Trump announced the Liberals' victory in distant Argentina and even congratulated his own team on the result. Milei was full of praise. The stakes are high and the stakes are high. (…) The political sympathy of the USA for Milei's government has no hidden interests, but rather shows them openly. The list of reasons is long and includes economic and trade interests: access to critical minerals, trade in goods and services and investment, strategic interests such as countering and intervening in Chinese influence, securing clean nuclear energy for AI data centers, to name a few. A little over a year ago, the government began signaling that it would allow the U.S. to “explore” rare earths in its country…” span.Article from October 28, 2025 in Página|12 (machine translated)
  • Neither the polls nor the politicians saw the purple wave coming.
    “Looking for the reasons for the result: pollsters explain what happened in the polling stations on Sunday
    The specter of chaos, Trump's threats, the 40 percent of the right and the polarizing effect were some of the answers that consultants and pollsters found about the reaction at the ballot box...
    "You could say that in the last 12 to 15 days there has been a run on LLA because the specter of chaos has emerged," adds Analía Del Franco of Del Franco Consultores. The dollar, the high rates, the instability. The waiter who tells you that you don't know what the coffee will cost on Monday." The specter has emerged, which for some is also the specter of a return to Kirchnerism. But I wonder if there wasn't a shameful vote: people who didn't dare say they would vote for the LLA, which has been plagued by scandals and mismanagement of late. It wasn't easy for someone to say they would vote for Milei. I do not rule out that people told us in the polls that they would vote for Provincias Unidas or other intermediate forces and ended up voting purple.”…” span.Article by Raúl Kollmann from October 28, 2025 in Página|12 
     (machine translated)
  • Partial congressional elections in Argentina: No “overwhelming victory” for Milei
    “Argentina's right-wing libertarian president rejoices. Above all, Donald Trump has reason to celebrate - because Javier Milei is on his drip…”Comment by Jürgen Vogt from October 27th, 2025 in the taz online 
  • Don't party so much. Due to record absenteeism, the ruling party has lost millions of votes since 2023.
    “The current government and mainstream media's interpretation of election results is often misleading and they reinforce what is convenient for them. But for Libertad Avanza, not everything that glitters is gold…” span.Comment by an editorial staff member on October 27, 25 in La Izquierda Diario (machine translated)
  • Milei's party wins midterm elections in Argentina - criticism of Trump's influence on the campaign
    "In the mid-term elections in Argentina, President Javier Milei's party, La Libertad Avanza (LLA), won with 41 percent of the vote. In the elections on Sunday, half of the members of the House of Representatives and a third of the senators were re-elected. The largest opposition force, the Peronist Fuerza Patria, came to 31 percent after counting over 90 percent of the votes. According to media reports, voter turnout was around 66 percent, the lowest since the return to democracy. The LLA won in the province of Buenos Aires with 41.5 percent, ahead of Fuerza Patria with 40.8 percent. Around a third of the country's eligible voters live in the province of Buenos Aires. The LLA's top candidate in Buenos Aires, Luis Espert, announced his candidacy three weeks ago because of contacts with a man imprisoned for drug trafficking Entrepreneurs withdrew, but the LLA was still able to prevail. Due to time constraints, Espert's photo was not even replaced by the current candidate Diego Santilli. On September 7th, the Peronists won the local parliamentary elections with a lead of around 14 percent ( Amerika21 reported that Milei's party also won in the large provinces of Córdoba, Santa Fe and Mendoza). Aires explains the overall result”. A possible explanation for the election victory went on to say: “The government based its campaign on the fear of a strengthening of Peronism in its Kirchnerist form.Donald Trump helped with this strategy: two weeks ago he said that the $40 billion he had offered Milei as a bailout was contingent on the victory of the far right." (…)
    For Julia Giuliani, national coordinator of municipal employees of the Union of State Employees (Asociación de Trabajadores del Estado, Ate), the success is also a result of the mistakes of previous governments. “The so-called progressive parties have not offered solutions to the pressing problems in health, work, housing and nutrition,” she explains to Amerika21. In the area of ​​extractivism, their policies were “the same”. However, there are now concerns about “an expansion of mining in rural regions and the privatization of water”. For Giuliani, too, the real election winner is Donald Trump.” Post by Thorben Austen from October 27, 2025 in Amerika21 
  • “Argentina is dying” (Trump) or: Will JP Morgan seize power at the Rio de la Plata?
    “On Friday afternoon, as the banks and exchange offices closed their doors, the streets of Buenos Aires remained quiet. Nerves in the financial district were on edge because the peso had come under heavy attack in the past few days; would he last until Sunday's elections? In this emergency, the US Treasury decided to donate $20 billion for support purchases and the private banks should follow suit. The details are missing, the press speaks of half a billion being pumped in every day to stabilize the Argentine currency and - according to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent - "the international financial system". Above all, it was about enabling US hedge funds like that of Robert Citrone, a friend of Bessent, to do a “bailout”: that is, to allow him to sell his worthless Argentine securities without major losses. And last but not least, Donald Trump wanted to spare the ultra-right Javier Milei the impending election defeat.
    Senators and representatives will be elected in Argentina on Sunday, and the neoliberal model of the anarcho-capitalist, as he calls himself, depends on these midterm elections. Suddenly everyone who has a name in the (Western) financial world was painting doom on the wall if the Latinos at the polls painted their cross in the wrong place. (…)
    The coming congressional elections are more than a reflection of the mood after the government's midterm. Up for vote is the model of the right-wing radical president, who has been ordering his countrymen to tighten their belts and dismantling the state's institutions for two years. The real wage is falling and the anger is great. Every Wednesday, pensioners take to the streets, supported by trade unionists and students. Patience is at an end (From the dollarization of Argentina to the pesification of the US dollar). Milei has deeply disappointed his followers. He actually wanted to destroy the “political caste,” but now his government is rocked by its own corruption scandals. (…)
    It seems certain that Milei will be punished on Sunday. However, this should not be interpreted as a victory for the opposition, which is in a sorry state. She has no suggestions of her own on how to overcome the crisis, but only calls for Milei to be stopped. The largest political force is still the Peronists, who have splintered into several factions. (…)
    And even if Milei's defeat on Sunday turns out to be less severe than the polls predict - because Argentinians allow themselves to be blackmailed - JP Morgan will not have an easy time selling out the country. Because, as I said, the anger is great and when the elections are over, Donald Trump will probably implement his announcement and “stop being generous with Argentina“.”Article by Gaby Weber from October 25, 2025 in Overton Magazine 
• With mass and class against Milei: There is resistance against the government of Argentina. The most stubborn resistance comes from pensioners
  "...President Milei, in office since December 2023, has become a role model of the extreme right with his macho demeanor. After the first international hype, the election victory and a furious neoliberal turn in Argentine economic policy, Milei's star now seems to be sinking again. In the elections on September 7th in the province of Buenos Aires, Milei's party "La Libertad Avanza" ended up far behind the Peronist center-left party “Fuerza Patria”. (…) Ten days after Milei took office in December 2023, the first large demonstration went to the government palace in the Plaza de Mayo. On this anniversary of the 2001 uprising, there were cacerolazos, loud protests with cooking pots, in the center and in the districts On June 12, 2024, a basic law reduced by half of the articles was voted on. Although the trade union associations had not called for a strike, many workers came to the demonstration in front of parliament (…) On April 23, students and university employees mobilized against the threatened cuts in education. Around 500,000 people took to the streets in Buenos Aires and even as many in others Cities. (…) Women and queers are the ultimate enemy for Milei (…) When Milei once again agitated against LGBTIQ+ at a spontaneous meeting in a park in Buenos Aires on January 1st.In February, two million people took to the streets in various cities in Argentina and abroad. Even if there are often only a few hundred people at their weekly demonstrations, with their continuous resistance, the pensioners repeatedly become the focal point of the protest. (…) And the unions? Since Milei took office, more than 220,000 formal jobs have been lost, including more than 56,000 in the public sector. Informal and self-employed work, on the other hand, is increasing. There are constant strikes against this further precarization. According to surveys by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), there were more than 1,200 labor disputes in Argentina in 2024. But the big bureaucratic trade union federations are doing nothing to bring these struggles together. Milei admitted his electoral defeat in the province of Buenos Aires, but at the same time announced that he would continue his course in a more rigorous manner. He vetoed funding for universities and Garrahan Hospital. Could this again be the long-awaited moment to combine the impressive mobilizations of individual areas into a common force that will end the right-wing extremist spook in Argentina?” Article by Alix Arnold in iz3w issue 411 from October 16, 2025 
• Trump supports Milei in Argentina with $20 billion: rescue package is intended to strengthen Milei before the congressional elections and benefit funds like BlackRock
  “…The bailout comes at a critical moment for Milei, whose popularity is declining and which faces protests and an economic slump. Real wages in the public sector have fallen by 19 percent and pensions by 23 percent. Against this background, IMF Director Kristalina Georgieva openly linked the Fund's continued support to the election outcome. “Success will depend on people pulling their weight,” she said in a speech at the Milken Institute. The Argentine newspaper Tiempo Argentino viewed this as interference in Argentina's internal affairs. Milei welcomed the announcement on social media: "Far away, the best economy minister in the history of Argentina. Long live freedom, damn it!" he wrote, thanking Trump and Bessent for their "firm support." (…)
  Although the Argentine government denies that the swap means new debt, Argentine media pointed out that the agreement represents a new form of financial subordination to Washington. In return, Bessent is said to have demanded that China be kept out of the country's strategic economic sectors, including a review of the existing currency exchange with the Chinese central bank. "Argentina has rare earths and uranium. This is not a rescue, this is buying cheap and selling high," said Bessent, according to US media. According to the New York Times, the measure also benefits speculative funds such as BlackRock, Pimco, Fidelity and others. They all hold large investments in Argentine government bonds and were on the verge of incurring significant losses due to the rapid decline in the value of the peso and falling bond prices…”Contribution by Sven Hanfstängl Reuss from October 14th, 2025 in Amerika21 , see also:
  • Milei escapes his disempowerment. Reform of the decrees, however, limits the president's options. US support is crucial
    "Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei got off lightly once again. On Wednesday, the Chamber of Deputies voted with a large majority in favor of a reform of the presidential decrees, with the help of which Milei has been able to govern so far. However, they were unable to agree on all points of the reform in the individual vote. The bill is now going back to the Senate, whose renewed approval is considered certain. This means that Milei retains a large part of his presidential power. It is questionable whether the international donors will of the country - the fate of Argentina depends on the MPs' complete approval of the reform. In the future, all presidential decrees would have to be approved by Congress within 90 days. Since 2006, Argentine presidents have had the power to issue emergency decrees without the prior approval of Congress. So far, these emergency and emergency decrees have only rarely been put to a vote in Congress With the reform, a rejection by one chamber would be sufficient in the future. Even with a veto, the president would probably only gain time, because in the past few weeks Congress had overridden three presidential vetoes against social laws - an unprecedented occurrence since Argentina's return to democracy in 1983. Milei's declining assertiveness had also caused nervousness on the financial market, as the president is seen as a guarantor of tough austerity measures.(…) Economics Minister Luis Caputo therefore quickly flew to Washington and has been trying for days to put together an aid package with the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department. It's about a 20 billion bridge loan until the congressional elections on October 26th. (…) How many dollars will flow, when and under what conditions will only become clear next week, when Javier Milei himself flies to Washington for a quick visit to Trump. (…) In addition to the financial turbulence, there are a number of scandals in the government camp. These range from allegations of enrichment through Milei's support of a cryptocurrency to corruption allegations against his sister Karina Milei to the business relationships of Milei's top candidate José Luis Espert in the congressional elections with the alleged drug trafficker Alfredo Machado. (…) “Just three months ago, a victory for Milei’s governing party in the congressional elections was more than likely,” said political scientist Lucas Romero to “nd”. “Now there is a real possibility of defeat,” said the analyst at the Synopsis polling institute in Buenos Aires...” Article by Jürgen Vogt from October 9, 2025 in New Germany online 
• AArgentina: Lower House overrules Milei's vetoes on funds for pediatrics and universities - protest movement accompanies vote and celebrates success with “Marcha Federal”
  "The right-wing government of Javier Milei suffered a double defeat in the Chamber of Deputies in Argentina last week. With a majority of more than two-thirds, the opposition overruled President Milei's vetoes on pediatrics and university funding. For weeks on both issues, thousands of Argentines regularly took to the streets to protest against the government's plans. The rejection of Milei's veto was clear and cross-party: the law on federal funding for Hospital Garrahan, one Children's emergency clinic in the capital was approved with 181 votes in favor, 60 against and one abstention. At the same time, the law presented by Milei to “update” university spending was rejected with 174 votes to 67. The rectors, committees and students unanimously view the budget and salary adjustments provided for in this as inadequate. The clear result was also surprising because the Milei government had until recently tried to influence some MPs. It became known that the northeastern province of Misiones had received short-term allocations of four billion pesos (around 2.3 million euros). Nevertheless, their MPs voted against Milei, as did the representatives of the northern province of Salta. Their governor had called for people to contradict Milei on social media. He said it was about "the future of young people" and "the thousands of children and families who have found care at Garrahan Hospital". (…)
  According to observers, a simultaneous mass demonstration in defense of public universities also contributed to the government's parliamentary defeat. The third “Marcha Federal”, organized by trade unions, human rights groups and student and lecturer associations, once again brought tens of thousands onto the streets. Despite a heavy police presence, they ultimately gathered in the Plaza del Congreso and watched the parliamentary debate on large screens. When the voting scoreboard lit up green and Parliament President Martín Menem announced the rejection of Milei's proposals, the rectors, lecturers, students and union members erupted in collective cheers with shouts, jumps, applause, hugs and tears of joy. The success of the third nationwide protest under Milei, the Marcha Federal, could mark a turning point in the opposition's conflict with the government. (…)
  Milei's resounding defeat in the recent general election in Buenos Aires province further exposed the government's internal conflicts. The draft laws endorsed by the parliamentary opposition now go to the Senate. By a vote of 59 to nine, the upper house rejected another presidential veto last week. It was about the law for the distribution of federal grants “Aportes del Tesoro Nacional” (ATN) to the provinces, which the governors had introduced in unison. Milei wanted to block it. Now it is again the turn of the Chamber of Deputies, where the law was passed in August. However, this majority was below the two-thirds quota required to override vetoes.” Contribution by Stephan Hollensteiner from September 22, 2025 in Amerika21 (“Argentina: Opposition to Milei scores in Congress and on the streets”)
• A lousy week for Milei's "track record": Argentina's parliament lifts its veto on the emergency law and rising living costs - like the homeless - have to be hidden
  • Neck slap for Milei: Argentina's parliament overturns a presidential veto for the first time in 22 years. This is inconvenient for the government
    “Things are anything but smooth for Javier Milei. On Thursday (local time), the Senate finally overturned the Argentine president's veto against an emergency law for people with disabilities. Significantly more than the required two-thirds of senators voted for the repeal. The majority of the House of Representatives had already rejected the veto in August. It is the first time in 22 years that the Argentine parliament has overruled a president's veto. As was the case for the vote in August, thousands gathered in front of the congress building in the center of the capital Buenos Aires, including many families with disabled children. They burst into cheers after the result was announced. The emergency law that Milei must now sign provides for increasing state aid for facilities for the disabled. The minimum pension for people with disabilities should also increase slightly. Nevertheless, the payments remain extremely low…”Article by Frederic Schnatterer in the young world from September 6th, 2025 
  • Under the chainsaw
    “While newspapers from Switzerland, Austria and Germany rave about the “locomotive of South America” and demand “more mileage”, democracy is crumbling in Argentina
    In the middle-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, it has become normal for families to search for food in garbage cans, ask the bakery for leftovers from the day before, and sleep in huts made of blankets and cardboard boxes on street corners. The number of homeless people in the city has increased by almost thirty percent compared to the previous year. In August, the city administration announced that anyone who rummaged through the garbage would in future have to pay a fine equivalent to up to 550 Swiss francs. These people should not be visible in the city and should in no way tarnish President Javier Milei's image of success. (…)
    In recently published texts, economically liberal German-language media also ignore the dark side of the right-wing libertarian president's policies. The NZZ praises Milei's “track record” and the “shock therapy seems to be working so far.” The “Kurier” even demands an “Austrian Milei”. “Die Zeit” asks: “Was the chainsaw successful?” They all praise the falling inflation, the reduction in the budget deficit and the growth forecasts for the economy. René Scheu, co-founder of the Institute for Swiss Economic Policy, also celebrated Milei in an interview in the CH Media newspapers because he had reduced inflation in record time. (…)
    But if you really want to know what is happening in Argentina, you have to take a closer look: the inflation rate has indeed fallen significantly, which is probably the only reason why so many people still support Milei. But the cost of living has long been at a record high: Argentina has gone from being one of the cheapest to one of the most expensive countries in Latin America. (…) Real wages and purchasing power have fallen. More and more people are paying with credit cards at the supermarket, and fewer and fewer are able to pay off their debts afterwards. “A restrictive fiscal policy is not always desirable, but Milei shows that the costs are often not as high as many progressives believe,” writes US economist Noah Smith in the NZZ, ignoring Milei's drastic cuts in education, health and pensions. In Buenos Aires, pensioners protest every week because the government refuses to adjust their pensions to inflation. Also on the street are employees of an important children's hospital whose wages are below the poverty line and people with disabilities whose benefits Milei has cut. In his view, it is not the state's job to support them. (…)
    “The right-wing populist Javier Milei has managed to turn things around, contrary to the darkest prophecies,” writes the “Kurier”. Milei's supposed macroeconomic success is based on the availability of US dollar reserves and the artificial appreciation of the peso. The state only has the dollar reserves because Milei took out a new billion-dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund. But debt service payments are quickly eating up reserves. And imports, made cheaper by the appreciation of the peso and the abolition of tariffs, are destroying the national industry. There can therefore be no question of a sustainable “turnaround”. Switzerland, Austria and Germany should under no circumstances “dare to go further,” as “Die Welt” demands. The demonization of “excessive government spending” and the calls for “will to reform” obscure the dismantling of hard-won fundamental rights in favor of the economic elites.” Article by Sophia Boddenberg in the WOZ from August 28, 2025 
  • Argentine grassroots activist Candela de la Vega: “On the left we haven’t talked about freedom for a long time”
    In theInterview by Júlia Martí Comas (translation: Camilla Seidelbach) in Amerika21 on August 30, 2025 , Candela de la Vega talks about the prospects of the grassroots movement in the era of Javier Milei:"A large part of what is considered the progressive camp - which in Argentina does not exactly coincide with the left-wing grassroots movement and its emancipatory orientation - is now self-critical: we did not see it coming in time; in time enough to build stronger or more targeted dams against it. Today we interpret that the victory of Milei cannot be explained by an irrationality of the voting behavior of Argentines and Argentines, but that we must observe a change in political culture and political subjectivities that has been going on since It has been ongoing for a long time and is related to the forms that Argentina's economic crisis has taken in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Milei's government did not trigger the crisis; it had already emerged beforehand; today we see that Milei fit exactly into the predetermined path that enabled him to channel suffering and economic, social and political discontent that already existed before his electoral success and to make political capital out of it.
    In January and May 2024, two general strikes by unions organized in the country's main labor headquarters took place. These took place in the context of attempts to pass the so-called Ley Bases (Fundamental Law), which ultimately led to regressive reforms in the area of ​​work and employment. The conflict at the universities also represented a strong, ongoing and cross-sectoral line of conflict. It began as a wage dispute and escalated by expanding into further demands. There were university occupations, two mass demonstrations and a high level of politicization by those who themselves belong to or are connected to the university communities. The confrontation with feminism and the LGBTQI+ movement also continued unabated. The strike on March 8th was marked by a significant ideological confrontation - and by no means an insignificant one - with that part of the government coalition that represents conservative, religious and military tendencies., (...)
    Today the right speaks of freedom, while we, the left or the grassroots movements, at least in Argentina, have not talked about freedom for a long time. We do not give it any ideological content, do not elaborate its meaning, nor have we revived it or linked it to our organizational and combat practices. We have only hesitantly managed to say that there is another freedom. Something similar is happening with the idea of ​​social justice. (…)
    We are currently considering the question, what would happen if we were in charge of state institutions today? I'm not saying we should do that right away. It's more of a thought experiment. If that were to happen, how do we manage to maintain our connection to the people in the neighborhoods, villages and communities? What gap are we willing to accept between what we do and what we preach? How much equality and how much freedom? Because if we don't, the same thing that we are now criticizing will happen to us. So we enter into this discussion with the Network of Local Democracy, which is not carried out in other political spaces in which we are active, such as within the framework of the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (Unión de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Economía Popular, Utep), a more union-oriented instrument for the representation of social demands, or within the framework of the House of Community (Casa Comunidad), a platform for feminist networking and self-defense. Other colleagues may have a different reading. Of course, the network also makes an important contribution in the area of ​​international solidarity. However, one challenge will be to build consensus while growing in the diversity and plurality of experiences and political developments. We are on this path.”
• Argentina's Chamber of Deputies overruled Milei's veto against the emergency law for people with disabilities by 172 votes to 73; the decision now rests with the Senate
  “The law adjusts the fees paid by the state to healthcare providers for people with disabilities to price trends, creates a new non-contributory pension equal to 70 percent of the minimum pension and guarantees access to state healthcare programs. The session, marked by sharp exchanges, ended with the following result: 172 MPs voted in favor of the proposed law and against Milei's veto, compared to 73 votes for the government and two abstentions. At least 163 yes votes were required. During the debate, hundreds of people with disabilities and family members demonstrated in the Plaza del Congreso against Milei's veto, which would have "financially unsustainable" consequences for them. While the opposition managed to vote together this time, there were defections among the government's supporters and allies. (…) Milei's defeat shows that the political costs of his cuts in sensitive social areas can also be viewed by allies as too high. The final decision on the law now lies in the Senate. Almost at the same time, allegations of alleged bribery in the purchase of medication by the National Agency for People with Disabilities (Andis) became known, putting Milei in further distress…”Contribution by Stephan Hollensteiner from August 25th, 2025 in Amerika21 (“Chamber of Representatives in Argentina overrides Milei’s veto”)
• After Milei's veto against the increases for pensioners and the disabled, there are calls for a state of emergency to be declared for senior citizens and a protest on August 6th. called
  • The CGT should call a general strike. Milei vetoed increases for pensioners and disabled people: new protest