Have you ever seen one of those Middle East war movies? Those places are so much tidier. Somalia had concrete roads at least. Google "Argentina Villa 31", "Argentina la Matanza", "Argentina Crimes", "Argentina Villa Miseria", etc. What you will see is how the vast majority of the country's landscape and day-to-day life looks like for most people. I'm one of the fortunate ones, and even I have always felt like walking over the ruins of what was once a country. I still have the vivid memory of sleepless nights as a child, as my neighborhood was scourged by a crime wave for it was "liberated", which is the term the police uses to designate the zones where crime will be legal for a period of time (I'm not joking). Some zones remain like that forever. Yet in my years of helping Milei's political effort I traveled more throughout my city and province and saw absolute perdition.

As bad as my city is, everything pales in comparison to Santa Fe province, which before Milei was under strict control of drug cartels, razed by murder and crime. When he came into power the province had to be intervened by force. It improved dramatically. That in itself was already an historical change. However, that's what was under his control for it was a decision he could take. The rest of the provinces remain under control of the soviet landlords, and remain as terrible. The infamous "Conurbano", known as "Mordor" for good reason, remains hell on earth, as its current landlord imposes ever higher taxes.

What Milei was able to achieve with what little he has is a miracle that shouldn't have been possible. Since the monetary system was something under his effective control, his plan was to shut it down to end the infinite source of money that allowed the ever growing state expansion of the landlords, a tool that has always allowed them to hold people hostage amidst poverty (if you complain at anything, no more subsidies or state position), shutting down complaints on crime and state wrongdoings out of fear, making of crime a de-facto parastatal intimidating force, keeping the self feeding cycle of ever increasing power going on for decades.