Batakis - the new Argentine economy minister

A close friend to CFK apparently and this effectively puts the ministry of economy under control of La Campora.

Yesterday she said that the right to travel is in direct conflict with the need to create jobs, an oblique reference to travellers using their cards abroad, thus requiring streams of dollars leaving the central bank.

Will they soon make it illegal to travel? Probably not, but they will certainly make it more painful.

This aligns very well with other outrageous statements from Kirchner acolytes over the years:

It's not a human right to buy dollars.

Inflation is just a sensation.

Insecurity is just a sensation - insert whichever other feeling or situation is just a sensation.

Fugly

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Alfonso Prat Gay, former head of the Central Bank: "The right to clean our bums collides with the right to work. It turns out that we have to sacrifice ourselves and when we go to the bathroom, not wipe our bums with toilet paper so that there will be one more job. It's absurd.

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Martín Lousteau, JxC Senator: "This sentence shows the nonsense that is our economy and the absolute disorientation of this Government".

Waldo Wolff, JxC deputy: "Chronicle of a movie foretold. Minister Batakis is now a sommelier of rights. 'The right to travel collides with the generation of jobs'. Nobody is going to invest a peso in a country governed by censors of freedom like you. Insane".

Maximiliano Ferraro, president of the Civic Coalition: "Minister: the generation of jobs collides with the recipes that you have carried out (and they are a failure) and the absence of a serious and consistent Plan".

Fernando Iglesias, JxC deputy: "It all started with the joke that said what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine".

Daniel Sabsay, constitutional lawyer: "Batakis argues that the right to work collides with the right to leave the country. Two fundamental rights, the latter cannot be suppressed for political reasons derived from the convenience of the ruler. It is a harmful precedent that produces a tampering of the Constitution".

Also read: The three definitions of Silvina Batakis on the blue and the official dollar.

Guillermo Dietrich, former Minister of Transportation: "The absurdities are difficult to explain. Kirchnerism is putting obstacles everywhere because they do not generate confidence. They generate false dilemmas that are not present anywhere in the world, such as the right to travel or to work. Kirchnerism wants to invent gunpowder".

Roberto Cachanosky, economist: "Those who work in airlines and tourism companies would be conspiring with work. Even the military did not dare to say these barbarities full of authoritarianism".

Manuel Adorni, economist: "The only thing that 'collides' with the generation of jobs is the government. The end".

Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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This is what really happens in the Argie cabinet meetings.

Sergio Massa is said to be replacing Batakis as economy minister...

Let's see how that plays out.

The market is reacting well to the news of a possible cabinet reshuffle and Pancake Massa taking over the economy ministry, although it hasn't formally been offered to him yet. But then who wants that poisoned chalice? And what of his career if he screws up?

Dollar down to $312 now.

It's official!

Scioli (loser) is being sent back to Brazil where he belongs and Batakis is being given president of Banco Nacion as a consolation prize.