Sovereignty or Openness: Villarruel agitates internally for the national industry
The Vice President took advantage of a judicial setback by Donald Trump in the US to launch a harsh criticism of Javier Milei’s free import model. «Without national production there are no real government policies,» he stated.
By Vive CABA Editorial Staff
The tense calm that reigns at the top of power was broken again this Friday. Through her social networks, Vice President Victoria Villarruel marked a new limit in her relationship with President Javier Milei, this time touching one of the pillars of the libertarian economic program: unrestricted commercial opening.
The mirror of America
The trigger was the ruling of the United States Supreme Court that annulled the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump on imports. What for the Casa Rosada is a nod to market freedom, for Villarruel it represented a warning signal.
«The decision of the US Court implies a blow to the policies of production and establishment of companies. Without national employment and without national production there are no real government policies,” shot the head of the Senate.
The strongest phrase, however, was the one that positioned her on a path opposite to the diplomacy of Balcarce 50: “For Trump, the United States comes first; for me, Argentina comes first”.
The ghost of «Chinese dependence»
Villarruel did not stop at theory. He warned that the total opening of imports promoted by Minister Luis Caputo not only weakens local SMEs, but also surrenders economic sovereignty. According to the Vice President, this model condemns us to depending on «communist China» and transforming the country into a simple «seller of services», losing all its industrial strength.
This message resonates strongly in the industrial belts of the Province and the City, where the entry of low-cost foreign products is already impacting activity levels. In fact, his words coincided with the news of the closure of the tire plant Fatewhich left 900 people unemployed, a case that has become the symbol of the crisis that the manufacturing sector is going through.
Nationalism vs. Globalism
The internal one is not only economic, it is ideological. When closing his defense, Villarruel raised a dilemma that bothers the presidential environment: “In short, we are talking about Nationalism or Globalism”.
While the President seeks to consolidate his profile as a global leader of liberalism, his running mate seems determined to build his own profile, closer to a «right-wing nationalism» that seeks to protect Argentine work and differentiates itself from the financial «red circle.»
