The executive order, which radically reshapes the country’s economy, will be enforced for a minimum of two months
President Javier Milei’s controversial executive order reshaping Argentina socially, economically, and politically went into effect on Friday.
Last week, Milei released an 86-page document known as a decree of necessity and urgency (DNU, by its Spanish acronym) that contained 366 articles. The DNU declared a financial, fiscal, and administrative “emergency” in Argentina while mandating widescale deregulation, the repeal of hundreds of laws protecting Argentine workers, and limitations on benefits such as severance pay and maternity leave.
While DNUs are constitutionally required to go through Congress, they are binding until they’re overturned. DNUs only require a simple majority in one of the congressional chambers to become law, although the judiciary has the authority to reject them as well.
I’m gonna predict that this will end catastrophically - for him, for the country’s economic and geopolitical standing, and for every unfortunate citizen that is subjected to these apocalyptically stupid policies.
I think you’re right, but it’ll cause just so much abominable misery to so many for so long before that, and take so many decades to undo afterwards, it’s disheartening.
Yep. But I guess every once in a while a society needs to understand what it means to vote for the wrong thing, and this is it for Argentina.