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Diego M. Raus

Director of the Degree in Political Science and Government of the National University of Lanús. Regular professor of the School of Social Sciences of the Univ. of Buenos Aires UBA. Degree in Sociology from the UBA and in Political Science from Flacso-Argentina.

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What does Milei’s government understand by inequality and private sector?

To bias and blur the contribution that the government's adjustment makes to the concentrated private sector and to omit the socioeconomic crisis that the country is going through is a political act, and a hypocritical policy.

Milei: Politics of the impossible

For Milei, if the state has resources after paying debts, there will be public policies. If resources decrease, those policies will decrease in equal measure.

Milei and the rupture of political science

In six months, Milei has not been able to pass any legislation in Congress due to his parliamentary minority, but also to his demonstrated political inability to forge alliances.

University strike and federal march in Argentina

In a country where the society historically considers public education as an absolutely legitimate, appreciated and irreplaceable asset, any attack against it immediately mobilizes diverse social groups.

Argentina: a harsh second ballot

Argentina, in the midst of a serious economic and social crisis, found its political crisis almost beyond measure.

Milei and what is to come: Argentina toward the October elections

The three thirds of these PASO elections on the road to October are non-negotiable because they clearly represent three different and antagonistic positions of the electoral expectations of the Argentines.

Constitution, Extractivism and Conflict in Jujuy (Argentina)

By mid-June, the governor of the Province of Jujuy reformed the provincial constitution passed in the provincial chamber with repercussions at the national level.

Macri renounces to run for president in the October elections

Macri moved his cards first. He will not be the candidate, but he has a strategy that will allow him to be the opposition's great organizer.

Argentina: The (dis)unity of Frente de Todos 

After the first year of the self-styled government Frente de Todos government, which took office in 2019, and having passed the moment of greatest...

Cristina de Kirchner’s sentence opens a new chapter in Argentine politics

Cristina de Kirchner announced that she will never again be a candidate for anything. But beyond the real meaning of this resignation, the sentence opens an uncertain political panorama in Argentina.