¡Qué se vayan todos!: Discussing the Argentine Crisis and Insurrection

Accumulation by Dispossession and Socio‐Environmental Conflicts Caused by the Expansion of Agribusiness in Argentina

“…), as an explicit reference to their disbelief and utter disenchantment with politicians (Dinerstein ). This was the last of a series of conventional neoliberal governments in Argentina (Bonnet ) and it set the foundations for what some authors call a ‘post‐neoliberalism’ stage (O'Hara ; Grugel and Riggirozzi ). In several Latin American countries (mainly Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela and Uruguay), the ‘return of the state’ is associated with neostructuralism or post‐neoliberalism.…”

Transformations in Argentina's Capitalist Development since the Neoliberal Age: Limits and Possibilities of a Peripheral Development Strategy

“…The pressure created turned into deflationary tensions, heightened as the crises of the neoliberal project begun to circle about in the periphery (Mexico in 1995, Southeast Asia in 1997, Russia in 1998, Brazil in 1999. Resistance to neoliberal rule was picking up strength as a process of political recomposing of the working people begun to consolidate in the late nineties (Bonnet 2006). This combination was fatal for the neoliberal project in Argentina.…”

“…Even if working class organization and struggle was not able to stall the neoliberal reforms, it was capable of disarticulating its political hegemony. As the Convertibility plan exploded in late 2001 after four years of stagnation, a widespread crisis of organic nature, in Gramsci's terms, led to a process of heightened sociopolitical instability (Bonnet 2006).…”

The boom and crisis of the Convertibility Plan in Argentina

“…The growth of social protest implied the participation of different social sectors, in particular the poorest sections of the working class, traders and people who had had their savings seized. The forms of protest included looting, road blocks, strikes, demonstrations ('cacerolazos'), electricity blackouts and street battles against the police (Bonnet, 2006;Iñigo Carrera & Cotarelo, 2003;Piva, 2013). The rebellion pro-voked the resignation of President De la Rúa and the recall of the two chambers of congress to choose a new President.…”