MÁXIMO KIRCHNER: Desde que CRISTINA dejó la PRESIDENCIA se le EXIGEN SACRIFICIOS al PUEBLO ARGENTINO

Direct quotes from the interview: “I want them to tell me how we're going to do this. If we don't discuss this, then they'll come out saying, 'We're going to raise salaries and pensions.' How? With this level of debt maturities, how are we going to do that? This is the central question and discussion in Argentina today.” “Cristina is a strong, intelligent, studious, and hardworking woman. She's pushing us all to put in the effort and to give people hope, to show them that we can get through this. The situation she's going through is terribly unjust, because in Argentina the elite are free, Cristina is imprisoned, and society lives the way it does. I think we all have to learn from her strength and determination to build this alternative and turn things around in Argentina, to put it back on the right track.” ” “What those of us in positions of responsibility need to understand is that we shouldn't deceive people just to gather a few votes. I believe any proposal must be based on seriousness, and what has become clear since Cristina left office and Mauricio Macri took on debt in 2018 is that the priority must be to address Argentina's debt reduction.” “This level of debt maturities we have, debt that hasn't improved the lives of Argentinians—we haven't seen it in schools, universities, housing, paved roads, highways, or in improving our country's logistics to make the economy more competitive. This debt, which no one can explain where it is, which the Judiciary turns a blind eye to… we have to address this because achieving these figures and this supposed fiscal balance with people in this situation could be done by anyone without a conscience. The fiscal balances we need to build must include the people.” “When people are taken into account and are included, they work, they move around, they produce, they can access their own homes. We have a president who talks about private property, and the truth is that people have less and less access to private property. So the proposal must have a solid foundation and be linked to what we are going to do about the external debt.” “We have to talk with Argentina’s creditors and start changing this. The reality of people’s lives cannot be a variable that is ignored when negotiating with those who indebted the country. Because it is true that the debt was taken on under Macri, but the IMF lent irresponsibly and without considering Argentina’s capacity to repay.” “Today, millions of Argentinians are suffering.” “For the past 10 years, government after government, since Cristina left the presidency, has been asking Argentine society for sacrifice and patience. A government that left office on December 9, 2015, with zero debt to the IMF, and today that debt stands at 60-70 billion dollars. I could tell you that in 10 years we're talking about almost 6 or 7 billion dollars in debt to the Fund alone. And these are sums that Argentinians haven't seen reflected in their quality of life, that business owners haven't seen in improved credit conditions or better logistical environments for production and generating added value.” “It's debt for a select few that affects workers and also SMEs, those who want to produce, those who have dreams in life. To speak of a quick or short recovery cycle would be to play with people's hopes and dreams.” “I think we need to keep a cool head and offer a lot of hard work, a lot of willpower, blood, sweat, and tears to move forward, because Argentina is going to need its leadership to mature because today it's governed by anti-politics, not by a political leader. This needs to be clear. He's not a leader trained in Radicalism, Peronism, or the Argentine national left. He's a man trained on certain television panels who used to carry a chainsaw.” “Peronism has to accept that on December 9, 2015, we left with a packed plaza, and on December 9, 2023, we left with an empty plaza, and that's the reality. That's where we have to start to have a serious, responsible discussion that doesn't try to deceive people for a few votes.” “The president is Milei, and he surely has large economic groups, especially foreign ones, that want to take over something that belongs to all Argentinians. They are taking away the future of our children and young people.” “Milei’s opinion of his current economy minister was harsher than many of ours. He practically said he was useless, that he had blown the IMF loan and then put him there. They are aware of what they are doing; this is planned misery, a planned surrender.”