Analysis. For all the 15,000 or so public employees mercilessly fired by one of President Javier Milei's anti-deficit decrees, the government's only response has been a massive deployment of security forces.

written by Claudia Fanti

Topic Latin America

April 9, 2024

Many only learned they had lost their jobs when they went to the office after the Easter vacations and were barred from entering. Others had already received notice of their dismissal over the holidays, by telegram or e-mail, but went to work anyway at the urging of ATE, the state employees’ union.

“We will return to our workplaces, not only because they are the source of our livelihood but also because we are facing a disintegration of rights never seen in the history of our country,” ATE wrote in a press release.

For all the 15,000 or so public employees mercilessly fired by one of President Javier Milei’s anti-deficit decrees, the government’s only response has been a massive deployment of security forces to guard most state agencies, aimed at preventing (albeit in vain) acts of protest and assemblies at the workplace.

15,000 state employees are to be fired, as stipulated in one of the Milei government’s anti-deficit decrees. The procedure for ousting them while avoiding protests is particularly brutal.

The most serious, symbolically disruptive episode occurred in a place where no one would have........

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