RIO GALLEGOS, Argentina, Oct 21 — Alicia Kirchner, an elder of Argentina’s most powerful political dynasty, recalls with fondness helping build homes, schools and the first...
Alicia Kirchner, outgoing governor of Santa Cruz and sister of Argentina’s late President Nestor Kirchner, speaks to Reuters, in Rio Gallegos, Argentina October 11, 2023. — Reuters picRIO GALLEGOS, Argentina, Oct 21 — Alicia Kirchner, an elder of Argentina’s most powerful political dynasty, recalls with fondness helping build homes, schools and the first hospital in Rio Gallegos, a small city in the country’s windswept Patagonian south.
“Milei is a product of discontent,” Kirchner, 77, the outgoing governor of Santa Cruz, told Reuters at her official residence, not far from the mausoleum of her late brother and former president Nestor Kirchner .Her sister-in-law Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, president from 2007 to 2015, was — until recently - the undisputed star of Argentine politics. Fernandez de Kirchner handpicked the current President Alberto Fernandez in 2019 and remains his VP.
Argentina is one of the world’s top soy and corn exporters, the biggest debtor to the International Monetary Fund with a US$44 billion program, and has been luring investment to its huge resources of shale gas and battery metal lithium. In the shadow of the Andes, signs of the Kirchner family can be seen around the resort, their name honored in street signs and the orange color adopted by the campaign of their chosen mayor, who has governed uninterrupted since 2007.
“There’s no money circulating in the streets,” said outgoing leftist regional vice governor Eugenio Quiroga, because “people’s wages only cover the basics, which is hurting local businesses,” — and ultimately public support for the government. Carnevale, who lost his job running a local filling stationduring a long Covid-19 lockdown, set up the shop selling nails, screws and tools that has become a lifeline for his family. He still faces challenges given rising input prices and interest rates at 133 per cent, which block access to credit.
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