The planet is just getting over the shock she was. Trump win in the U.S. presidential election, but the plan for his second term, developed by a fistful of right-wing extremists, has been in force in Argentina for almost a year.
Project 2025 interprets almost 9 100 pages of publication Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, developed by Heritage Foundation – a right-wing American think tank. It's ready to draw for Trump's future government.
It sets out authoritarian tactics utilized in various parts of the world, ranging from attacks on public education, through the dismantling of climate policy to the taking of the rights of women, LGBT+ people, migrants, workers and black people. any of the most utmost policies mentioned in task 2025 are already being tested in Argentina to weaken the state and to prevent people from exercising their rights.
"If we have doubts about how task 2025 will be implemented, just look at what happened in Argentina last year," I heard from Paula Ávili-Guillén, a human rights lawyer. Ávila-Guillén is the Executive manager of the Women's Equality Centre (WEC), which develops communication strategies on reproductive wellness and justice in Latin America.
I was aware of what was happening in Argentina. The 30% cuts in public spending and the increase in poorness by 11 percent points in just a year cannot be missed. Just as 1 cannot neglect to see the difficulties faced by loved ones and friends in society, who are accustomed to economical collapse. Nevertheless, Ávili-Guillén's message made me look at Javier Milei's governments from a fresh perspective.
Project 2025 is simply a flagship initiative of Heritage FoundationHowever, he sits on his advisory board above 100 another Christian, right-wing and far-right groups, as well as dozens of erstwhile Trump administration members.
"It is not adequate for Conservatives to win elections. If we are to save the country from being taken over by the extremist left, we request both a program of governance and the right people in positions, ready to implement this programme from the first day of work of a new, conservative government" - states Heritage Foundation in its introduction on its website.
Javier Milei, since December 2023 the president of Argentina and the increasingly prominent figure of the world's far right, never even mentioned task 2025. But he tried from the beginning contact from the Heritage Foundation, resulting from papers submitted by lobbyists to the United States Department of Justice.
As we know from information on page Argentine Government, where gifts received by the president are listed, a copy of the publication Mandate for Leadership submitted Milei Vice president Heritage Foundation Derrick Morgan at their gathering in Washington at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC.
The main nonsubjective of task 2025 is dismantling of state administration, which allegedly supports left and "vocism". This means disbanding state ministries and agencies, cutting public spending on health, education and social welfare and eliminating programmes and resources to combat sex violence, discrimination, contamination and the climate crisis.
For the first 10 months of his word of office Milei acted rapidly as a to-do script implementing this scenario. A justification for many of the fresh measures introduced by him was the request to reduce public spending in order to stabilise the unstable economy, where Annual inflation it reaches 211 percent and the state has a immense debt in the global Monetary Fund. There is nothing incorrect with cutting unnecessary state spending, but Milei went much further than anyone expected. Many people call his approach to limiting the state apparatus "chain saw cuttingIt’s okay. ”
‘I love to be a mole in the country’ – told Milei in an interview given in June. "Demonting you from the inside".
Milei applied unprecedented cutting all public expenditure, reaching nearly 30 percent. Cut investment in education by 40 percent, stopped pension increases, reduced availability life-saving medicines cancer, decreased financing the improvement of discipline and technology; and higher education, fired nearly 27,000 officials. Locked up. public media and frozen distribution of food as a food table for the poorest.
Recently, He took the sale. State-owned companies in the nuclear, aviation, fuel, mining, electricity, water supply and treatment industries, freight transport, roads and railways. He has eliminated 9 ministries, including the Ministry of Women, sex and Diversity and the Ministry of Education – these are the activities described in Mandate for Leadershipwhich he besides mentions Trump.
Milei dismantled all government on sex equality and cut funding services, including for persons who have experienced home or sexual violence. Last year, more than 170 000 people benefited, and according to authoritative statistic in Argentina every 35 hours reaches killing a woman. It is presently unknown whether anyone will proceed to collect specified statistical data.
Milei closed besides the Institute for Anti-Discrimination, Racism and Xenophobia, which called "a sinister institution utilized for ideological persecution". The creators of task 2025 would undoubtedly be delighted. Their plans for Trump explain extensively that all policies, programmes or funds to advance diversity, equality and social inclusion should be discarded.
Mandate for Leadership It describes in item the request for an army of loyalists to execute the task of diminishing the state from day one. Heritage Foundation has database About 20,000 people in the United States who could service as Trump's squad while taking over the presidency from Joe Biden. But that would besides require exemptions tens of thousands of professional government officials, replacing them with people loyal to this ideology and prohibiting public sector workers from forming a union.
Milei himself actively stalks officials who do not share his views. W letter addressed to the diplomatic corps, he demanded that those who were not thought to be his ideas for abroad policy “removed aside” – he specifically mentioned his plan to reject Oenzetowska Agendas 2030signed by governments to combat poverty, inequality and environmental devastation.
A fewer days later Announced Purge: “The executive will proceed to audit officials of the Ministry of abroad Affairs to identify persons promoting anti-freedom ideas”.
Demonstration against Javier Milei's politics in Argentina. photograph Santiago Sito/Flickr.comAccording to task 2025, another president of the United States must "expel from all existing legislation, regulatory agencies, contracts, grants, regulations and national regulations mention sexual orientation and sex identity, diversity, justice and inclusion, gender, equality and justice towards gender, cultural gender, sex adjustment, abortion, reproductive wellness or reproductive rights".
The abortion paper covers as many as 199 times, besides in the context of the plan to ban abortion at national level, to increase criminality, to tighten care in the event of abortions and emergencies during pregnancy, to cut backing into contraceptives utilized in emergency situations and to introduce strict surveillance systems for persons undergoing abortion or abortion.
Heritage Foundation besides wants to impose its approach abroad: to reconstruct the alleged "politics from Mexico City‘ prohibiting financing from public funds U.S. abroad NGOs, if their activities are related in any way to abortion – even if these activities are financed from their own resources alternatively than from American grants.
The right to abortion, legalized in Argentina in 2020, under Mileia is under threat. His organization presented the bill repealing the right to abortion, which Milei says is "Premeditated murderIt’s okay. ” He's already cut the money. for abortion and contraception. Eliminated The teen pregnancy prevention program and the 2025 budget did not foresee any measures for comprehensive sexual education – which is legally required and considered crucial in preventing kid abuse. Instead, authorities entrusted providing training for teachers conducting sexual education classes of the Catholic organization Teen Star, promoting sexual abstinence.
Milei He's banned usage of an inclusive language as part of public services, and in the Ministry of abroad Affairs has placed Catholic lawyer, Ursula Bassnet, tasked with reviewing all state positions on sex and climate change. At the last General Assembly of the Organisation of American States Basset put pole in spokes the negotiations, demanding the removal of the wording "LGBT+ person", "sex" "tolerance", "climate change" and "family" from the statements approved at the gathering of intergovernmental organisations.
– Argentina is the only G20 country to argue Ministerial Declaration on sex Equality, signed in Rio last month, told me Ávila-Guillén. The objection was based on the fact that "family care" was defined as work and that "reproductive rights" were mentioned. Argentina's position on this case was yet more utmost than Saudi Arabia or Russia.
Academic, respectable speech Mandate for Leadership is simply gold to spread hatred. Even a brief reading of the paper reveals language divisions and the construction of the interior enemy. In a akin way, only little circumspectly, expresses his opponents Milei: ‘rats’, ‘human feces’, ‘fucking lefts’, ‘imbecils’ or ‘traitors’.
– The thought that Milei is purely Argentine is ridiculous. He is part of a much larger program, tailored in the United States, which is now trying to implement in different parts of the world," says Ávila-Guillén.
Demonstration against Javier Milei's politics in Argentina. photograph Santiago Sito/Flickr.comThe lobbyist who helped establish contacts between Milei and Heritage Foundation last year is Damián Merlo, 1 of the partners-directors in Latin America Advisory Group (Latin America Advisory Group), a company lobbying in the United States on behalf of the authoritarian president of El Salvador Nayiba Bukele. Merlo is in close relations with digital run strategy Fernand Cerimedo, who works for Mileia and previously worked for erstwhile Brazilian president Jaira Bolsonaro. Against Cerimedo is presently in advancement investigation in Brazil in connection with his alleged function in a failed coup effort against Brazilian president Luli da Silvie, conducted by Bolsonaro in 2022.
When Milei took office, He warned me. The Argentines that their hard economical situation may deteriorate for a short time following the introduction of planned measures. This is what millions now face: greater poorness and recession.
In fresh days of the U.S. presidential campaign, a akin transmission has been distributed by billionaire Elon Musk, who in Trump's run pumped over $100 million and who According to Trump to become “his cost-cutting secretary”. specified cuts, He warned me. Musk, however, can origin "temporary difficulties", but they are essential on the road to "long-term prosperity".
For whom there is to be this prosperity, it is not known – but the recipe for greater difficulties, the taking of rights and persecution can be viewed in full at the minute in Argentina. It's a hard sight.
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Diana Caribbean – he lives in Uruguay, since 2018 he has been writing for openDemocracy service. As editor for Latin America, she coordinates journalistic investigations in the region. She previously worked as a co-editor of the IPS news agency and its American editorial. Book author Guantánamo Entre Nosotros (2017), winner of the Morosoli Award for global Journalism in 2023 and Uruguayan National Press Award in 2018.
Article published in stock openDemocracy under Creative Commons. From English she translated Catherine the Formers.
