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Javier Milei vs. Big Labor

AFTER ENACTING SWEEPING reforms in Argentina, President Javier Milei faced a major protest. Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets, hundreds of flights were grounded, and schools and businesses closed in protest of Milei’s radical attempt to fix the troubled South American country.

Milei is a rarity; there aren’t many self-described libertarian heads of state in history. To avert economic inflation rate (that has since spiked to over ), he told the country things would likely get worse before they could get better.

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