A man with crutches during a protest against the pension system reform, on December 18, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Gabriel Sotelo/NurPhoto/Sipa USA). AP Images. All rights reserved
This article is part of the series "Persistent inequality: disputing the legacy of the pink tide in Latin America" produced in alliance with the Institute of Latin American Studies and at the Instituite of Sociology of the Freie Universität Berlin.
On December 10, 2015, Mauricio Macri took office as president of Argentina. He had won 51% of the votes in the second run of the elections against the pro-government candidate Daniel Scioli. In the first two years of his mandate, he has taken a number of measures which steer the country in a neoliberal direction, changing the course taken by Néstor Kirchner’s and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s administrations in the previous twelve years.
