Closure of Ministry of Culture in Argentina
Javier Milei, who in November was elected president of Argentina, has ordered the closing of the country’s Ministry of Culture. A hard-right libertarian economist and former tantric-sex coach who beat out center-left former economic minister Sergio Massa thanks largely to the votes of young jobless men disillusioned with Argentina’s decades-long financial stagnation, he had made the closure of various ministries one of his campaign promises. Just one day after his December 10 swearing-in, Milei announced on social media that he had signed a decree slashing the number of Argentinian ministries from nineteen to nine.
The Ministry of Culture will be subsumed under the newly created Ministry of Health and Human Capital, which will also absorb the former Ministries of Health; Labor; Social Development; and Women, Gender, and Diversity. The former Ministry of Education, which Milei earlier publicly decried as the “Ministry of Indoctrination,” will also be incorporated into the new ministry, which will be helmed by onetime television producer Sandra Pettovello, a Milei loyalist. A second new entity, the Ministry of Infrastructure, will absorb the former Ministries of Public Works, Transportation, Energy, Mining, and Telecommunications.
Source: artforum.com
