In last month’s Buenos Aires City midterms, Peronist candidate Leandro Santoro took issue with both the local and national administrations, while making a distinction between them as being respectively “negligent” and “cruel.” Yet both tags could be applied to the Javier Milei administration – pet targets for the cruelty accusations can be found at both extremes of age, ranging from the confrontation with the Garrahan Children’s Hospital to the level of minimum pensions. But this editorial would prefer to focus on the negligence of sacrificing key areas to the “chainsaw” and fiscal surplus such as public works and science.
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