WORLD WORLDWIDE SOUTH AMERICA ARGENTINA - news journal UPDATE - (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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