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Cooking Culinary Adventure: inspired by Halifax's Seaport Market | SaltWire #cooking #cookingshortsRIO GALLEGOS, Argentina - Alicia Kirchner, an elder of Argentina's most powerful political dynasty, recalls with fondness helping build homes, schools and the first hospital in Rio Gallegos, a small city in the country's windswept Patagonian south.
The libertarian economist has ridden a wave of voter anger at inflation set to hit 200% this year and the worst economic crisis in two decades that has left two-fifths of the population in poverty. Many blame the country's recent rulers. Argentina is the one of the world's top soy and corn exporters, the biggest debtor to the International Monetary Fund with a $44 billion program, and has been luring investment to its huge resources of shale gas and battery metal lithium.
In the shadow of the Andes, signs of the Kirchner family can be seen around the resort, their name honored in street signs and the orange color adopted by the campaign of their chosen mayor, who has governed uninterrupted since 2007. "There's no money circulating in the streets," said outgoing leftist regional vice governor Eugenio Quiroga, because"people's wages only cover the basics, which is hurting local businesses," - and ultimately public support for the government.
Four years ago he backed Peronist Fernandez in the election, and in 2015 mainstream conservative Mauricio Macri. But now he is a convert to Milei, even running on Sunday as a libertarian mayoral candidate in Rio Gallegos.
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