Senate passes emergency food bill in Argentina

Thursday, September 19th 2019 - 11:24 UTC

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Argentina's Senate Wednesday passed the food emergency bill submitted by the opposition parties as protests mount against the inflationary policies carried out by the administration of President Mauricio Macri, who is yet to sign the draft into law and has hinted he would do so without exerting his veto powers. Read full article

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Enrique Massot
So sad to see “the cow country,” as Argentina has been defined and touted to be able to feed 400 million people around the planet, is unable to feed its own population.

This is the result of less than four years of Macri's policies.

And before the usual suspects jump to their oft-repeated excuses: ”You cannot fix in four years the mess inherited from the previous (CFK) government,“ let's say that no one in Argentina expected Macri to build a perfect country in four years.

But most Argentines expected the man to at least partially fulfill his campaign promise of ”keeping what is in good shape and improve what requires amelioration.”

Just keeping the status quo without deterioration would have been quite an accomplishment for the Macri administration.
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