Following the Argentine economy is difficult. In recent weeks we entered into a new crisis, with a increase in the dollar and a jump in the country risk that threatened not only the “macro” but also the stability of the government itself. The industrialists, the soybeans, the bankers. Milei ended up “saving potatoes”, for now, with the help of the United States but at an incalculable cost. Among the conditions of the “saviors” is the possessment devaluation.
Therefore, to talk about “the poverty rates of the first semester” already has a problem: what does it have to do with the current reality and what can happen in this country in December?
Even in that uncertainty it is inevitable to stop in that number that the Government will use in its campaign. If everyone’s front left with more than 40 % poverty, shaking 31 % is as cynical as it is valuable for the libertarian account. “Solo” one in three people and one in two children is poor. What a achievement.
But even that data has been questioned by institutions that follow the issue. Let’s make a quick review:
A survey of the fall of the real salary with frozen peers, the minimum wage (SMVM) that has lost 35%of its purchasing power, social plans (-75%), the feeding card (-9.5%) and other income, make the results less credible.
One of the data that allows the Government to make these ads, in addition to these statistical maneuvers, is the decision to carry out a strong adjustment but increasing the assistance items of “survival”, such as the AUH (universal assignment per child) today established in 117 thousand pesos. The Government has consciously decided funds to that plan, which attends families according to the number of children.
This income allows in some cases to exceed the values established for destitution, and even poverty if other family, labor or non -work income is added, but keeps millions of families on the survival threshold. Raising 3 or 4 boys and girls with 450 thousand pesos allows Sandra Pettovello to say that “there is less poverty” statistical, but pushes childhoods to material, health, educational impoverishment, or speak to their families.
Many media linked to the Peronist opposition have come out to criticize the announcement, correctly. What they forget is that the governments of the PJ have also sustained statistical manipulation, with the height of the intervention of INDEC with ducks by Guillermo Moreno. Even with distorted measurements, to the Fernández-Massa-Kirchner government, poverty numbers exceeded 40 points and almost 60 in childhoods.
So it is a cynical debate. Do we leave 7 million kids in poverty or do we lower it a bit? 3 million retirees with assets under poverty or 3.5? Is it worse than 1 million families, they “jump” a meal or with 750 thousand is okay?
Meanwhile, in the last 10 years the transfer of wealth of popular pockets to business accounts has exceeded 110 billion dollars.
That is the IMF regime that nobody wants to touch: a looted country, a handful of millionaires, millions that survive.
The Left Front is the only force that rejects that miserable destiny raised by those who govern yesterday and today. And it has an exit:
We cannot keep looking to the side, speaking of hunger figures. You have to organize and go to the streets through that exit.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
