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.

  • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
    314·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • UlvainEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
        93·
        11 months ago

        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.

  • cyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    136·
    11 months ago

    Honestly, many of these reforms are urgently needed and long overdue, such as lifting export controls—it’s literally insane that a country facing a shortage of foreign exchange would deliberately crimp its own exports. For these parts, Milei has a pretty good justification for issuing an emergency decree.

    The big gamble Milei is taking is to stuff the package with a bunch of lower-priority items that, while arguably needed, are hard to defend as emergency measures. (This is quite similar to what the US government has often done, see e.g. the Inflation Reduction Act.) This increases the risk of the package being voted down, which hasn’t happened before with his predecessors’ decrees.

  • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    11 months ago

    Is it normal for the president in Venezuela to have a cane or is it part of his comical evil appearance ?