A-Infos (en) Argentina, FAR: August 2025 - Facing the Hollowing Out and Privatization of the Public Sector (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On July 8th, with the powers delegated by Congress imminent, the 
government of Javier Milei rushed through the publication of Decree 
462/2025, culminating a year and a half of cuts in key public sector 
areas such as health, education, and pensions. This measure attempted to 
dissolve the National Highway Administration (Vialidad Nacional), the 
CNRT (transport regulation), the Institute of Family, Peasant, and 
Indigenous Agriculture, the Seed Institute, and the Institute of 
Viticulture, while also seeking a transformation of the INTI and INTA 
(National Institute of Statistics and Census) that was ultimately 
rejected by the courts following an injunction filed by ATE (National 
Tax Administration) and dozens of industrial action in the sector. While 
the decree was currently rejected by one chamber of Congress, it is only 
a matter of time before the ultra-liberal government again attacks these 
entities, in addition to those already implemented. Likewise, a few days 
ago, in line with the privatization plan outlined in the Basic Law, the 
government announced its intention to privatize 90% of the shares of 
Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos (AYSA) through Decree 494/2025. This 
measure is being carried out despite the fact that, according to data 
presented by the Ministry of Finance itself, the company posted results 
exceeding $44 million in the last year.
During the 20 months of Milei's administration, the vast majority of 
political sectors, immersed in the electoral and institutional dynamics, 
when not expressing explicit support for this offensive, maintained a 
complicit silence or murmured economic justifications: "The adjustment 
was necessary," "this should have been done years ago," "there was too 
much waste." Although there are signs of a halt to some specific 
measures, a large part of Argentina's political class, along with 
national and transnational business leaders, approves of Milei's 
privatization project and lets this government do the "dirty work" by 
absorbing the political cost of the adjustment, which will undoubtedly 
be sustained by the next administration, regardless of its political 
affiliation.
Short-term objectives, such as injecting dollars into the state to 
maintain a fictitious surplus at any cost, in order to make it to the 
midterm elections, are combined with long-term objectives aimed at 
deepening the extractivist model and the business of financial 
speculation, always in favor of imperialist projects and multinationals. 
The dismantling of assistance programs for small producers and family 
farmers, along with the privatization of an essential human right like 
water, directly benefits seed pools, mining companies, and the 
multinationals Danone, Nestlé, and Coca-Cola, all of which are 
interested in monopolizing access to water.

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