Milei Government in Argentina

extreme right attacks on education and democratic freedoms

Abstract

The Milei Government in Argentina took office on December 10, 2023. The international framework is imperialist, a context of crises, wars and that opens the possibility of revolutions. A general crisis of capitalism that is expressed way as organic crises in some countries, way Argentina. A new extreme right appears in Argentina, but it is also linked to international phenomena such as Trump (USA) or Bolsonaro (Brazil). The Milei government began with three attacks against the workers and the popular sectors, articulating a decree of necessity and urgency, the so-called omnibus law and a repressive protocol to actually prevent demonstrations against, generating social conflict. In this article we will try to characterize Milei's government, initially as an attempt to build a commissarial dictatorship in terms of the Carl Scmitt of the Weimar Republic and its consequences for education and democratic freedoms. Specifically, we will focus on three levels of attacks: Conicet, which is the country's scientific policy, the problem of the educational budget, particularly public universities, and the salaries of teachers.