Milei has decreed it and now we will all be liberals! The government has rewritten the law that created the Yerba Mate Institute and has

There is no doubt that history is written by the winners. In this case, the history of the National Institute of Yerba Mate (INYM) began to be written in 2002, after a major crisis in Misiones, the main production area of this traditional infusion. This mixed body was created to clearly regulate that market and prevent abuses against small and medium-sized yerba producers. Therefore, it set reference prices to avoid the hardship of the settlers. In the first version of the story, the one from those years, Law 25,564 that created the INYM was followed by a regulatory decree, 1240/2002 signed by Eduardo Duhalde and Roberto Lavagna, which in its article 8° established: "The INYM must implement the measures that are necessary and convenient to facilitate the balance between the supply and demand of yerba mate and derivatives." That is, it approved the application of market intervention mechanisms. Javier Milei, as he always says, arrived to sweep away that history. And for that ...