2024-02-03 12:07:29
While in Argentina the Congress approved the Omnibus Law that he himself conceived, at least in its original version, Federico Sturzenegger, matched in Miami to businessmen and union members when talking about a “corporate republic” where “theft is institutionalized“
On the UM campus in Coral Gables, full of Argentines, the economist began with a story that made those present laugh: “A couple of years ago the chef of the Olivos presidential residence retired. They interviewed him so that told what he had seen in his 30 years there: ‘Well, the first thing I would say is that here the presidents changed all the time, but those who came to dinner were always the same‘”.
He chose that definition of the chef because according to him, it explains “the underlying strategy to the deregulation program” of President Milei.
He advanced with the idea: “On the surface, Argentina seems like a very unstable place. What we would call a quilombo. Inflation, abrupt changes: one day one thing is done, the next day another is done. However, I think that’s a hoax“.
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He defended that statement: “Argentina is a country extraordinarily stable in its organizational structure. If today we took a photo of all the Argentine trade unionists and compared it with a photo of those from 30 years ago, we would see that they are the same people. And if we later do one with the most important Argentine businessmen and see it together with a photo of those from 30 years ago, we would find that they are the same people.”
He said that’s what Milei calls “the caste” but that also resists the most classic name: the “establishment“. Sturzenegger thinks that perhaps there is a third leg, a “newcomer to the party”: social organizations “that have put together a power structure.”
But it reinforced the idea of the “impoverishing model” that only provides well-being to those businessmen and those union members.
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And he noted that this “corporate republic” over the years “has become flesh in the law” and in its vision “theft is institutionalized“.
So Milei’s program “rather than aiming at economic growth has a more political purpose: disarm the resources that finance be in that state and they allow it to last over time.”
Without abandoning the point, he stressed that economic growth “of course is an objective” but ahead, he insisted, is the political objective:
“Underlying this deregulation program is a strategy to dismantle Argentina’s corporate structure. Remove the privileged niches, remove the installed monopolies by the State, to remove the tolls that the law imposes so that certain actors can collect.
“If that is dismantled, maybe there is a chance”, he was excited.
He appreciated that “there is a president with a lot of support, but without large numbers in Parliament” because “that forces the exercise of democracy, to reach consensus.”
“There are discussions that have never happened before: a wall of silence has fallen on a lot of issues that no one dared to touch on,” he said. Regarding the law that had just been approved in Argentina, he accepted that “things have fallen by the wayside, but also many things were improved. It’s part of the game of democracy”.
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