Argentine laborer Pablo Vazquez was finishing a day's shift laying track for a train line near La Plata on the outskirts of Buenos Aires when the foremen...
An Argentine railway builder suffers in the shadow of Milei's cutsAn Argentine railway builder suffers in the shadow of Milei's cuts LA PLATA , Argentina - Argentine laborer Pablo Vazquez was finishing a day's shift laying track for a train line near La Plata on the outskirts of Buenos Aires when the foremen called a dozen members of the team together to share bad news. The workers were all being let go.
"This man has to realize what's happening, many people are unemployed. People are going hungry," Vazquez, 48, said at his kitchen table in the working class district of Florencio Varela, surrounded by soccer trophies and family photos. "The market has basically collapsed," Javier Gimeno, Latin America CEO for French construction materials firm Saint-Gobain said at an event in Buenos Aires, adding that while he supported Milei's pro-market reforms the industry was in a tough spot.
In a written response to Reuters, the secretariat of public works said it had audited over 2,700 projects, some of which would be scrapped and others transferred to provincial or municipal control. It pointed to delays and cost overruns that made restarting some projects "unfeasible". Instead of technical work, engineer Agustin Pecora, 33, has found himself in charge of protecting the idled machinery and building materials from theft while workers wait for an answer about the project's future.
Businessman Pablo Quantin, who runs Buenos Aires-based construction firm Vial Agro that was working on the La Plata rail project, said he had been forced to lay off 600 of his 1,000 employees so far this year because almost all the firm's 24 public works projects were halted. Back in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, meanwhile, Vazquez said he would need to request a financial extension from the construction union to get through winter, though he wasn't confident given the number of workers seeking the same.
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