The impact of the policies applied by the government of Javier Milei in the neighboring country is evidenced by the increase of the poverty index to 52.9 percent, which affects above all women, children and retirees, according to a communiqué released here.

While unemployment is growing, the protective character of the State is being dismantled and people’s ability to access essential goods is diminishing.

The declaration is signed by the Social Green Regionalist Confederation, the Frente Amplio and the Communist, Humanist and Socialist parties.

Besides the serious economic situation, there is the reduction of the space for the exercise of civil and political rights, with the violation of freedom of assembly, arbitrary arrests and criminalization of political demonstrations.

On the other hand, human rights defenders in the trans-Andean nation are the target of attacks in social networks and media outlets sympathetic to Milei’s government, the document adds.

In its statement, the entity condemns the repeal of the decree that created the Special Investigation Unit, fundamental for the search of missing persons carried out by the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, the reduction of workers of the Secretariat of Human Rights and the memorial places

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