While organized workers seek to repeal the controversial reform, it advances in Congress. It still needs to be ratified by the Senate. Workers claim that it eliminates many of their rights.

The new law increases daily working hours, weakens unions, and reduces corporate liability. The reform, which still needs to be approved by the Chamber of Deputies before becoming law, has been widely rejected by the country’s most important unions and the opposition.

In this article, we review some of the general trends and attitudes of Milei’s government two years into his term.

Following Milei’s veto of a law that seeks to improve conditions in university education, thousands of students, teachers, and workers will take to the streets in protest across Argentina.

Pese a que el mandatario asumió en primera línea la campaña electoral y vaticinó una victoria de su partido (“Buenos Aires se pintará de morado”, afirmaba Milei), las cifras han sido contundentes. Se estima que hubo una participación de casi el 61%.

Despite the president taking a front-line role in the election campaign and predicting victory for his party (“Buenos Aires will be painted purple,” Milei claimed), the figures speak for themselves. Voter turnout is estimated at almost 61%.

The repression took place during the usual Wednesday demonstration demanding better living conditions for Argentine seniors and the reversal of neoliberal measures.

The mobilization united groups of women, workers, people with disabilities, doctors, scientists, etc., who are being hit hard by the economic policy of Milei’s government.

Tras la violenta represión de las manifestaciones de los jubilados, sindicatos de periodistas y organizaciones sociales demandan la renuncia de la Secretaria de Seguridad, Patricia Bullrich.

After the violent repression of the retirees’ demonstrations, journalists’ unions and social organizations demanded the resignation of the Secretary of Security, Patricia Bullrich.

More than a hundred people were arrested and dozens were injured in the police repression. Movements and press organizations have called for the resignation of the Secretary of Security, Patricia Bullrich.

El 19 y 20 de diciembre del 2001 miles de argentinos se tomaron las calles para exigir un cambio de rumbo en cuanto a las políticas neoliberales auspiciadas por el FMI que habían reinado en el país durante los años noventa.