07/21/2021 5:49 PM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 07/21/2021 5:56 PM
Juan Vital Sourrouille
, former Minister of Economy in the government of Raúl Alfonsín,
died this Wednesday afternoon
.
He was
80 years old
and had fought in recent years against colon cancer from which he was recovering.
The economist was famous for being Alfonsín's minister who
created the Austral Plan,
a program that lowered inflation from levels above 30% per month to almost zero immediately.
It was a shock plan.
Former minister Juan Vital Sourrouille, in a talk he gave in 2019.
News in development.