Kicillof accused Milei of “erasing himself in the face of the most serious dengue epidemic in history”

The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, took aim at President Javier Milei for his handling of the historic dengue outbreak. It sounds like a joke, but it’s very serious. And very serious. A president inspired by an ideology or a ‘libertarian liberal’, ‘anarcho-capitalist’, ‘from the Austrian School of the nineteenth century’ that was never applied anywhere, ‘decides’ to erase himself completely in the face of the most serious dengue epidemic in history,” the provincial president lashed out on his X account. “Ah, in the meantime he maintains that he is going to melt the provinces because they do not approve his unconstitutional DNU and the destructive laws that he did not even write his government,” he added in the post. Kicillof was taken from a newspaper article The Nation who reported that the Casa Rosada delegated the management of the epidemic to the provinces and that “it hopes that the market will resolve the supply of repellents,” which has been lacking for several days. It sounds like a joke, but it’s very serious. And very serious. A president inspired by an ideology or a creed “libertarian”, “anarcho-capitalist”, “of the Austrian School of the nineteenth century” that was never applied anywhere, “decides” to erase himself completely in the face of the epidemic of Dengue fever more… pic.twitter.com/KKMd7DPoI7— Axel Kicillof (@Kicillofok) April 4, 2024 At the beginning of April, the dengue epidemic has accumulated more than 180,000 registered infections and 129 deaths. In this context, the Minister of Health, Mario Russo, broke the silence and spoke for the first time since taking office. He assured that the vaccine was not effective in mitigating the outbreak and explained that the lack of repellent is due to “a problem between supply and demand” and that “it was a bottleneck” that “will be corrected in the coming days.” In response to questions about health policy in the midst of the outbreak, presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said that Russo has “the full support” of President Javier Milei and that he performs his work at the head of the Ministerio.No it is the first time that Kicillof has taken aim at the national government for its health policy. In the last few hours, he said that with Milei at the helm, the government “is only there to lay off workers, raise rates, put a ceiling on salaries and defend privileges.”

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