During his electoral campaign leading into the Aug. 13 primaries, Argentine neoliberal fanatic and presidential candidate Javier Milei vowed to wipe out the corrupt “parasitical political caste” that he said had destroyed the country, and bring in new blood and fresh new faces to build a whole new system. The vow to clean out the “parasites” is what attracted large numbers of disaffected youth to his campaign hoping to find a cause they could support.
But, lo and behold, it turns out that leading members of the parasitical caste are working for Milei! His three top economic advisers, Roque Fernandez, Carlos Rodriguez and Dario Epstein, helped the corrupt President Carlos Menem suck the life out of Argentina’s economy between 1989 and 1999—Fernandez as Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor, Rodriguez as chief of economic advisors at the Finance Ministry, and Dario Epstein as the privatization maniac who helped dismantle the state, when he wasn’t otherwise employed by top international banks. They propose the same policies they imposed under Menem. It turns out that parasites, in the cause of parasitism, can tell the host that they are there to rid the host of parasites.
