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Epilogue: Argentina The End of Post Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Hard Right
02.19.2016 :: Latin AmericaIntroduction: The class struggle from above found its most intense , comprehensive and retrograde expression in Argentina, with the election of Mauricio Macri (December 2015). During the first two months in office, through the arbitrary assumption of emergency powers, he reversed, by decree, a multitude of progressive socio-economic policies passed over the previous decade and sought to purge public institutions of independent voices.