Argentine laborer Pablo Vazquez was finishing a day s shift laying track for a train line near La Plata on the outskirts of Buenos Aires when the foremen called a dozen members of the team.
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LA PLATA, Argentina (Reuters) -Argentine laborer Pablo Vazquez was finishing a day's shift laying track for a train line near La Plata on the outskirts of Buenos Aires when the foremen called a dozen members of the team together to share bad news. In a shed at the site entrance, the managers said the project had been put on ice as part of a crackdown on public-funded construction works under new libertarian President Javier Milei, who took office just months before in December. Vazquez's story is being repeated around Argentina since Milei, a right-wing economist, came into power pledging to "chainsaw" through over-spending by the state, which he blames for the country's worst economic crisis in decades.
Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, is the perfect person to lead an economic and cultural rebirth. 'Argentina will return to the place in the world which it should never have lost,' he has pledged., naming the statist status quo as his country's enemy in chief. The next four years will demonstrate if the libertarian firebrand is as good as his word
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