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‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina

Argentina's president Javier Milei delivers the 2025 budget at the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 15, 2024.

Javier Milei took office as Argentina’s President on 10 December last year.Credit: Tomas F. Cuesta/Bloomberg via Getty Images

It has been one year since libertarian President Javier Milei took office in Argentina, and the nation’s science is facing collapse, researchers say. Milei’s agenda to reduce the country’s deficit and lower inflation — which had topped 211% last year — has meant that, as his administration’s slogan says, “there is no money” for science or anything else.

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