In her first public speech since the ultraliberal Javier Milei took office in Argentina as president, the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner yesterday launched a heavy attack on the government policy developed by the government, denouncing that because of this, “the people dying of hunger.”
Speaking in Quilmes, in the province of Buenos Aires, for the inauguration of a micro-stadium named after her late husband Nestor Kirchner, the former Head of State criticized Milei’s economic policy in front of thousands of militants, arguing that ” Argentinians are subjected to unnecessary sacrifices.”
After refuting the announcement of a “historic” budget surplus in the first quarter of this year, achieved according to her by “blocking the payments that the state should have made”, Kirchner branded the presidential doctrine of anarcho-capitalism, adding which “is not even anarcho-capitalism, but anarcho-colonialism”.
Then addressing Milei directly, he underlined that “it may be that 60% of Argentines voted for you, but if when you are in government people die of hunger, lose their jobs, don’t make it to the end of the month, what’s the point?”.
At the end of the speech which lasted just over an hour, Milei’s reply came through the X account: “If people are dying of hunger it is because for decades you have defended a model based on unlimited spending and on accounting falsifications to cover the deficit. The result is a destroyed country with 60% of people poor. And what we are doing is to rebuild the country you destroyed.”
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