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Argentina’s Senate passes Milei’s economic reform bill as protesters clash with riot police
CNBC ^ | June 13, 2024 | Sam Meredith

Posted on 06/14/2024 1:45:57 PM PDT by Twotone

Argentina’s Senate narrowly passed President Javier Milei’s sweeping economic reform bill, delivering a tentative legislative victory to the right-wing leader even as protesters clashed with riot police.

Lawmakers in Argentina’s upper house on Wednesday voted 37 to 36 to approve the bill after a marathon debate, with Vice President and head of the Senate Victoria Villarruel casting the deciding vote in favor of Milei’s economic measures.

The bill, which was initially backed by the lower house in April, will now be studied point by point before it is expected to be fully approved on Thursday.

The reform bill is a core tenet of Milei’s push to revive the country’s crisis-stricken economy. Among other issues, the bill seeks to privatize some of the country’s state entities, provide a generous incentive scheme for foreign investors and water down labor rights.

Photos published on Getty images showed anti-riot police officers deployed water cannons to disperse protesters and a car had been set ablaze during the demonstrations.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: argentina; economicreforms; javiermilei

1 posted on 06/14/2024 1:45:57 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

I imagine the “protesters” fall into two camps:

(1) Those fat from the government dole and their dependents, and
(2) those paid by US funded NGO’s to protest.

“Leftist political parties and labor unions are bitterly opposed to Milei’s economic agenda.” so says the article.


2 posted on 06/14/2024 1:50:56 PM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: Twotone

Go Milei!


3 posted on 06/14/2024 1:51:10 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: TonyinLA
3)Collage student looking for a little excitement.

Collage students have been rioting since collages first were invented. You take a bunch of wealthy horny teens, group them together, make sure all their basic needs are met, give them little to no supervision and protect them from feeling the full consequences of their actions. What could possibly go wrong?

Maybe, after almost thousand years, we could possibly come up with something a bit better?

4 posted on 06/14/2024 2:01:32 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Did these collage students go to college, to hone their artistic collage skills?

(Ducking, running :-)


5 posted on 06/14/2024 2:03:34 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Our defense department is in Ukraine monitoring the tactics and effectiveness of Russian weapons systems as well as ours. Hopefully the GOP higher-ups are doing the same politically in Argentina.


6 posted on 06/14/2024 2:03:46 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

*You take a bunch of wealthy horny teens,*

I was a leftist back then. It was a lot easier that way to get laid. Unshaved underarms were todays tattoos.


7 posted on 06/14/2024 2:07:00 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Twotone
"as protesters clash with riot police"

Which is totally irrelevant. The media decries mob rule...unless the mob is left-wing.

8 posted on 06/14/2024 2:09:21 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Jane Long
Hopefully. That way they can decorate their cells so they look purdy. :)
9 posted on 06/14/2024 2:09:53 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

😂 👍🏼


10 posted on 06/14/2024 2:18:05 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: EastTexasTraveler

Well said.


11 posted on 06/14/2024 2:19:46 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Twotone

The Left hates tax cuts.


12 posted on 06/14/2024 3:01:43 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Collage students have been rioting since collages first were invented. You take a bunch of wealthy horny teens, group them together, make sure all their basic needs are met, give them little to no supervision and protect them from feeling the full consequences of their actions.

I don't know about private universities, but public universities in Argentina are different from our public universities. They have no dorms, no sports teams, no dining halls; they are literally just a few classrooms scattered here and there throughout Buenos Aires. More like our community colleges than our public universities. Many students live with their parents and work an outside job. Not really sure it's an apples-to-apples comparison.

13 posted on 06/14/2024 4:17:48 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: FormerFRLurker
They have no dorms, no sports teams, no dining halls; they are literally just a few classrooms scattered here and there throughout Buenos Aires.

They do not have dorms but they do have student housing. In fact all university students are pretty much housed in a very few sections of the city.

And they are a BIT more then a "few class rooms".


14 posted on 06/14/2024 6:51:35 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Twotone

Federic Bastiat would be proud of Milei and probably would have let him write the introduction to “The Law” had he been around then.


15 posted on 06/14/2024 7:25:44 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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