It seems like a joke: A Kirchnerist mayor promotes a tractor protest against Milei in rejection of the "plunder" of the countryside

Published 2025년 10월 2일

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Argentina is increasingly resembling "Cha Cha Cha," the absurd humor television show from the 1990s that, while once disruptive, has been completely surpassed by everyday reality. The Kirchnerist mayor of the Castelli district in Buenos Aires province, Francisco Echarren, is promoting a tractor protest against the national government with a poster on social media that reads "We are producers, not slaves of looting." The supposed event would take place this Saturday at the Pigué roundabout. "Tractor protest against Milei. The countryside is also fed up. There is nothing left," said the mayor who began his political career as a parliamentary advisor in the Frente para la Victoria bloc of the Chamber of Deputies of the province of Buenos Aires. Echarren perhaps did not stop to think that in recent history there was no greater looting of the countryside than during the Kirchnerist administrations and that the anger of many agricultural producers against the government of Javier Milei ...

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