Cumulative inflation up 60%, unemployment over 12% and the currency in record devaluation against the dollar. Alongside the scenario of economic deterioration, the country is witnessing the conflict between President Alberto Fernández and his Vice Cristina Kirchner a feud that reached its climax in recent days when the economy minister resigned at the same time as Cristina delivered a speech and the country’s economic policy criticize. “The government is paralyzed,” summarizes Janaína Fernandes in an interview with Natuza Nery in this episode. Janaína, a special reporter for the newspaper O Globo, describes the “epidemic of disillusionment” being experienced on Argentine soil. Directly from Buenos Aires, she tells how the population outside the country is looking for work in order to get it in other currencies. And he remembers how old the conflict between president and vice is (which will go through the parliamentary elections in 2021) a friction of the first Kirchner government, back in 2008. In the middle of the crisis is the agreement with the IMF. The Presidentbacked deal now has no guarantees that it will be fulfilled, given the central bank’s “zero” reserve.
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