Staunchly conservative Argentinian President Javier Milei, already forcefully revamping the ravaged Argentinian economy toward economic success, has added an effort to address men in women’s prisons, asserting he will ban it from Argentina.
On Tuesday, Milei stated, “Speaking of prisoners, I’ve got a little scoop for you. Recently, we’ve seen cases of criminals using the gender identity law to claim they’re women who should be in women’s prisons. They do this to exploit female inmates or continue their business in more relaxed conditions. Just last week, we learned that the Moros gang leader filed 10 habeas corpus to change his gender and receive male visitors. Only in a country with deeply distorted values could such absurdity be allowed.”
“That’s why we’re putting an end to this nonsense,” he declared. “We’re going to ban it. Criminals won’t be able to request prison transfers under gender identity and we’ll push for provincial prisons to adopt this policy. Those who don’t comply will only reward criminal creativity and disrespect crime victims.”
The Argentine president said today at an event that gender changes carried out by criminals in prisons will be prohibited, since they do it to take advantage of the law, and continue committing crimes. @libsoftiktok pic.twitter.com/F3WflrBekZ
— El fenómeno barrial (@mileibarrial) November 27, 2024
Last April, Milei said he wanted to sell off Argentina’s prisons built in residential areas. “We are thinking of selling those prisons to real estate companies and for those companies to fund the construction of a new one far away from the city … (the jails ) would have better security, higher quality, better services, would be bigger, and [would be built] without spending a single penny.”
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“An exchange-traded fund tracking Argentine stocks saw record inflows as Wall Street embraces President Javier Milei’s efforts to quell inflation and reverse years of endemic budget deficits,” Yahoo Finance reported, adding that the ARGT “absorbed $144 million of inflows for the week that ended on Nov. 22, with $88 million coming in on Friday alone, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. … The fund … saw assets jump roughly seven-fold from $104 million when Milei took office to some $750 million on Monday.”
“Milei hasn’t just talked the talk, but is actually walking the walk,” said Malcolm Dorson, senior portfolio manager at Global X Management, which manages ARGT. “He has trade balances, he has built a fiscal surplus, inflation is ticking down, and economic activity is picking up.”