Argentina eliminates girls’s ministry for being “ideologized”

BUENOS AIRES (AP).— The federal government of Argentine President Javier Milei eradicated the undersecretary to which the previous Ministry of Ladies, Gender and Range had been lowered, a measure that, he stated, seeks to scale back the dimensions of the State and take away stage to the “politicized organizations” and that has generated the repudiation of the combative feminist collective of her nation.

In a press release titled “The closure of the previous Ministry of Ladies was finalized,” the federal government of the ultraliberal and far-right chief alleged that the Undersecretariat for Safety in opposition to Gender Violence was used “to propagate and impose an ideological agenda, rent militants , and set up talks and occasions.”

“None of their actions resulted in a discount within the crime fee. Quite the opposite, the Argentine folks witnessed their ideological bias within the discriminatory protection of the victims,” said the assertion launched the evening earlier than final by the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, on his X account.

In keeping with the ruling celebration, an audit detected that in stated undersecretary there was an overlap of capabilities with totally different authorities companies which might be devoted to the identical activity, which implied bills to take care of buildings and greater than 800 workers “that the Argentine State doesn’t have sufficient.”

The assertion famous that the definitive closure of the company was resolved following remembering that in December, just a few days following taking workplace, Milei determined that the Ministry of Ladies, Gender and Diversities created in the course of the administration of the Peronist Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) with the primary goal of combating gender-based violence, was reworked into an undersecretary “whereas its closure was accomplished” and that the latter later handed into the orbit of the Ministry of Justice.

Feminist militants affirmed that the measure of Milei—who carries out a pointy discount in public spending inside the framework of his adjustment insurance policies—supposes the eradication of the one institutional space of ​​​​the State to stop and fight gender violence, which as we speak is claims the lifetime of a girl within the nation each 35 hours.