By Executive Committee of the MST in the Left Front

Javier Milei’s government, which came to power by presenting its program as an alledged “fight against the caste“, shows its true face: a deeply corrupt and coercive administration, at the service of the most concentrated interests of capital, ready to unload savage austerity on the backs of the working people. The scandal of the National Disability Agency (ANDIS), is not an isolated fact but the clearest expression of the rottenness that characterizes this libertarian government and its increasingly authoritarian political regime. Far from breaking with the model of corrupt politicians, Milei, “the boss” Karina, the Menems and their associates have perfected it, taking bribery and business to obscene levels, even stealing from the most vulnerable sectors, such as disabled people.

This huge case of corruption from the power of the libertarian State, added to the deep economic and social crisis, and the series of political defeats in Parliament, shows that we are going through the moment of greatest crisis and weakness of the government and the absolute unfeasibility of its reactionary project, which today the working majorities, the popular sectors and the youth are suffering.

From the MST in the Left Front, we denounce all this corrupt plot and demand a deep and independent investigation, forming a commission with unimpeachable personalities and without any relationship with the political power of the day. In the face of deep and recurrent acts of corruption, we need a kind of CONADEP of corruption, so that everything comes to light, so that all those responsible are punished and all those involved go away. Faced with this new case of corruption and for so many other issues, we call for the broadest mobilization and unity of the workers, the youth and the popular sectors to win the streets and put an end to this regime of hunger and surrender.

The ANDIS case: corruption as a state policy

More than 20 leaked audio messages of former official Diego Spagnuolo have uncovered an institutionalized network of corruption that goes to the very heart of the Casa Rosada. The recordings uncover a system of 3% returns on the sale of medicines to ANDIS, whose main recipient was Karina Milei, the President’s sister and Secretary General of the Presidency, the “boss” according to her brother. Next to her, Eduardo “Lule” Menem, a key operator of the ruling party and Karina’s sidekick, also appears as a beneficiary of this criminal scheme.

The company involved in this scheme, Droguería Suizo Argentina, was not limited to ANDIS, it has an extensive network of contracts with the State and multimillionaire agreements with the Ministries of Defense and Security, which extends the suspicions of corruption to a large part of the cabinet.

We are in the presence of a modus operandis typical of decadent capitalism. With businessmen accustomed to the development of permanent spurious businesses, acting as suppliers of the capitalist State, which under previous governments and now in this one, acts through officials who act as lobbyists, with percentage and juicy returns at the end of the road. A whole structural scaffolding and state policy of the libertarian government.

Faced with a scandal of such magnitude, the government’s reaction has been a complicit silence and a shameless cover-up. The Minister of Health, Mario Lugones, and the ANDIS controller, Alejandro Vilches, failed to attend the summons to the Disability Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. Martin Menem tries an outrageous defense and Guillermo Francos went to Congress to speak without answering any of this. Far from giving explanations, Javier Milei, obviously weakened and nervous about the whole situation, committed a “sincericide” in an act in Junín, making a revealing slip of the tongue: “We are robbing them of the choreos”. This phrase, far from being a simple “failure”, is a symbolic confession that expresses the logic of this government: they did not come to put an end to the jobs, but to keep them all.

It’s not just one bad apple, it’s the whole drawer.

The case uncovered by Spagnuolo’s audios is not the only crime that tarnishes this government:

• The $LIBRA case: Milei and Karina are directly involved in a crypto scam, where they would have been charged for facilitating meetings for a cryptocurrency project. The ruling party and its allies have continuously tried to block any progress in this investigation. The clearest example was all these months they have blocked the work of the investigative commission formed by the Chamber of Deputies.

• Fentanyl case: Minister Lugones is also accused of the tragedy of adulterated fentanyl, which has already caused more than a hundred deaths. This social crime is the result of the dismantling of ANMAT and deregulation to benefit private laboratories.
• Purchase of candidacies. Even before they were elected, several allegations of bribes to accept people on their lists came to light, in which, not by chance, “the boss” and collector Karina also appears involved.
• Recent raid on the PAMI headquarters in Resistencia. Due to allegations of money requests to national officials and diversion of millionaire funds to a relative of the provincial president of La Libertad Avanza.
• Absolute lack of control and a free hand for the flight of foreign currency. A mechanism that surely hides comets, favors, returns and all kinds of maneuvers between large corporations and banks and government officials who look the other way, while billions of dollars are taken out of the country.
• The debt fraud as structural corruption. This government joined in paying and tying us to the biggest swindle in decades that we have been enduring and that all the governments accepted, putting themselves in favor of a millionaire negotiation against our country. The usurious and fraudulent mechanism of the foreign debt, as well as the negotiations with the privatized companies, are the essence of this corrupt and submissive capitalism, of which the current government is the administrator.

Feedback from the political, economic and socialcrisis .

The corruption scandal broke out at the worst moment for the fragile economic engineering of the unpresentable Luis Caputo. The markets, always “sensitive” to political instability, responded with nervousness: the free dollar went up again, as well as the country risk and bonds in US currency fell.

The economy is sailing on the edge of the abyss, due to the government’s own plan:

• Unsustainable interest rates and record reserve requirements: In order to try to slow down the same capital flight that has been feeding and containing the dollar, the BCRA raised bank reserve requirements to 53.5%, an extreme measure that restricts credit and deepens the recession. Productive activity is contracting, consumption is collapsing and wages are sinking.
• The trillion peso debt trap: The Treasury must face maturities of $8 trillion pesos. The government is trying to force the banks to buy its debt to avoid a “default” that would provoke a devaluation and an inflationary explosion. This whole scheme is so fragile that it sacrifices the real economy for the benefit of financial speculation.
• The mirage of “low inflation”: The difficult control of the dollar and the relative low inflation are sustained at the cost of a brutal recession that destroys jobs and increases poverty. They are no longer able to show it as a supposed “success”, and it is beginning to turn into something ephemeral and fictitious, whose fundamental consequences are paid by the people who suffer in the real economy, having to live with salaries that are not enough for anything.

This whole situation is generated by an economic plan ordered to pay a fraudulent and millionaire foreign debt with the IMF, which in turn demands structural changes at the service of the big imperialist capitals. The need to accumulate dollars and increase reserves is to guarantee these payments, which in 2026 will be even greater. Thus we see how an economic plan that has this objective is strained and enters into crisis, while at the same time it takes away taxes from the big corporations and the richest, so that they may continue accumulating millionaire profits.

Adjustment and corruption are two sides of the same sinister libertarian coin. And there is a permanent process of feedback between the political and economic crises, with their consequent repercussion also on the social level and the increase of discontent. More and more manifestations of this situation of growing social unrest are appearing, which is evidenced in struggles, social demands and in clear social tendencies of a majority critical of the government. The events of this Wednesday in Lomas de Zamora, with a government fleeing from its own act and Espert escaping on a motorcycle, are just an evident symptom, a picture of the deep social crisis of this moment, which anticipates the movie to come and a perspective of greater confrontations in the streets.

Political defeats and struggle in the streets

Isolated and cornered, the government has been suffering important setbacks in Congress. It could not avoid suffering important parliamentary defeats such as the approval of the Disability Emergency (repealing Milei’s veto) or the University Financing, despite the fact that the latter was under the threat of veto. In the Senate, the repeal of Sturzenegger’s decrees that dismantled key agencies such as INTI and INTA fell resoundingly, and the Pediatric Emergency was approved, something that strengthens Garrahan’s struggle. All these victories are a direct result of the mobilization and social pressure of these sectors. At the same time, the government is not even worse in this field, thanks to its political allies (PRO, UCR and part of the PJ) that sometimes continue helping it in the Congress, for example, they were able to maintain the veto to the increase in pensions. Although this claim is not over and continues thanks to the persistent mobilization of retirees every Wednesday.

The leadership of the CGT, absent in the streets as usual, has been engaged in negotiating with the government the labor and pension reforms demanded by the IMF, betraying the interests of the working class and leaving alone every genuine demand. This again shows the need to get rid of this old and rotten union bureaucracy, to promote new class-conscious and militant leaderships, to coordinate from below every struggle and demand the general strike and the necessary plan of struggle. To really take advantage of each union or union space recovered. And to promote self-convocations where they occur in a genuine way, as has been happening in the enormous struggle of the Garrahan, where through a Struggle Committee voted in assembly, the APyT leadership, the Internal Board of Ate and the self-convened work in unity.

Defeating Milei without going back to the past: our exit proposals

Milei’s government is immersed in the deepest crisis since its inception. It is a weak government with an uncertain perspective, which is only sustained by the temporary support of big capital and the complicity of a bosses’ opposition that provided it with the adjustment laws. In this context, the electoral campaign starts with great uncertainty.

The way out is to fight thoroughly to defeat his entire economic, political and social project, and to get rid of all those who adjust and bribe-takers. More than ever, we must promote a united mobilization for all our demands and to defeat the whole economic plan and Milei’s project. A massive mobilization that also proposes the punishment of all the corrupt and bribers.

The crisis brings political movements and a sector of governors takes distance and seeks to appear as a bourgeois alternative. But the way out does not go through trusting these provincial chiefs who until yesterday voted everything to the government and in their provinces they adjust and repress. Even less is it possible to support the PJ, which has shown that it is not useful either as a government or as an opposition. It adjusts when it is in power and therefore disappoints millions, and does nothing now to really stop Milei, in fact, some of its deputies and senators have endorsed libertarian laws and projects, while they have refused to promote a real mobilization until Milei is defeated, while they only think about their electoral lists and their internal disputes.

This situation can no longer be tolerated. We have to defeat now with mobilization this government that cannot go on as if nothing has happened for several more years. The only democratic solution is to put an end to this government and open a constituent process, where the people can decide democratically on all the big economic and social issues and obtain answers to their urgent needs. The way out that is also needed is to strengthen a true anti-capitalist and socialist alternative, with a clear program of substance.

We are going for the rupture with the IMF and for the non-payment of the foreign debt, because swindles cannot be paid and all the social needs of the people must be prioritized. We are for the nationalization of banking and foreign trade, to control everything we have and decide everything that enters and leaves the country, we must put an end to the privatized companies and extractive corporations, in defense of our common goods and essential services for the population. We propose to tax the rich heavily to provide salaries, pensions and budget increases for public health and education. And in the face of this intertwined corruption among officials, laboratories and drugstores, we promote the nationalization under workers’ and social control of the whole complex and the public production of medicines. Let us strengthen an alternative that fights for a government of the workers and socialism and that promotes genuine internationalism in solidarity with the Palestinian people and the denunciation of the Zionist genocide in Gaza.

In the coming elections, this alternative is the Frente de Izquierda Unidad (Unity Left Front), which we integrate from the MST. Whose presence in Congress, in Legislatures and City Councils is absolutely necessary. Because we need more deputies who are always on the same side and do not turn around. That is why we also call on those who, disappointed, are thinking of not going to vote, to really punish those who govern, strengthening an anti-capitalist and socialist alternative of the workers and the youth.

For all these reasons, together with promoting the struggle against this government and giving strength to the FIT-U in the elections, it is also essential to join, activate and be a protagonist of the set of struggles underway. Also to continue proposing that our front summons thousands of workers and young people to the greatest participation, something that is urgent and very necessary. To promote all this, we invite you to join the MST in the FIT Unity, to work together to strengthen our political tool and to prepare ourselves for everything that is to come.