Argentina Under the Kirchners: The Legacy of Left Populism (Latin America Bureau Special Report)

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In 2003, Néstor Kirchner took power in a country still reeling from financial meltdown. He got down to reverse the extreme neo-liberal policies of the 1990s and ruled through heady years of unprecedented economic growth.

Néstor was once one half of a political couple. His wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won the race for the highest job in 2007, and so they swapped roles. In 2011, she was once voted in for a second term with the very best make stronger ever obtained in a presidential election. And yet in 2015, she was once voted out on vague promises of “change.”

During the Kirchners’ administrations, inequality had fallen, per capita source of revenue had nearly doubled, the economy had grown as never before – so what did people need to change? Why did they vote for the first ever democratically elected right-wing government? How was once society torn apart into two vitriolic and equal opposing halves?

The legacy of Kirchnerism offers key lessons for progressive politics far and wide and points to the challenges of taking on resurgent conservative forces in Argentina and all over the world.

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