While Congress is scrambling to address all the issues on the table, the mega-decree has taken effect, bypassing people’s representatives. In an op-ed published on Infobae, Treasury Prosecution Office head Rodolfo Barra justified the mega-decree by comparing Milei to a king. Thus far, the administration has shown a consistent pattern of ignoring Argentine history in its attempts to fundamentally change the state. Case in point, the presentation of the omnibus bill prominently featured the fact that it’s based on the 1853 Constitution (ignoring multiple reforms of the intervening 170 years). We are now watching his administration purposefully push our 40-year-old democracy to its limits.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald December 31, 2023 18:14 UTC