Milei fires 24,000 public employees in Argentina: “No one knows who will be next”. State workers denounce that the cuts leave public functions on hold.

“We are experiencing a situation of psychological terror,” said a worker from the Ministry of Children, Adolescents and Family last Wednesday. Some 50,000 workers are in this climate of uncertainty: they are those who do not have a permanent position, but rather temporary contracts. The official argument is that Argentina is “an impoverished country’ with a state that is too large.