It's natural for Kirchnerism to oppose the reforms promoted by Milei. It's natural because breaking their privileges, dismantling their clientelist network, and taking their hands out of other people's pockets is what will allow the country to lay the foundations for development and prosperity for the next 30 years. What's at stake is not a legislative debate that may or may not approve laws: what's at stake is the end of a decadent Argentina that they managed as their own for two decades.
Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed "defenders of the humble" shout and sow chaos, the government continues to accumulate milestones that a year ago seemed impossible. Argentina returned to the capital market, and not just in any way: it did so with a 2029 bond with a 6.5% coupon under local law, considered by many as the best of all time. This is not a financial technicality; it's a historic turning point. It means reserves, it means a better Central Bank balance sheet, it means a drop in Country Risk and falling rates, it means that an SME can once again consider applying for credit, that a family can plan ahead, that an investor stops seeing Argentina as an inhospitable territory where every success depends on an accounting trick.
Above all, it means something deeper: we've regained the world's trust, something Kirchnerism took from us and left us in the worst of all possible worlds. Returning to the capital market with a four-year bond is not an isolated fact: it's concrete proof that the course is right and that change was not only necessary, but urgent.
Meanwhile, the opposition shouts "cruelty," "lack of empathy," and other slogans that don't withstand a minute of reality. They said that Milei was insensitive, that he didn't understand social suffering, that he even "fudged" INDEC's data. But there are the numbers: poverty fell as never before, by any measurement methodology. It didn't fall by magic, nor by electioneering handouts, but because putting the accounts in order, lowering inflation, and getting the State out of the way restores real purchasing power. Empathy is not handing out checks; empathy is allowing people to live off their work again.
In parallel, another image marks the break with the past: the first six F-16 fighter jets arrived, a leap in quality that Argentina hadn't seen in decades. It's a strategic milestone that strengthens the defense of the airspace and restores dignity to Armed Forces that Kirchnerism spent years humiliating. While they spoke of "sovereignty" with empty speeches and incorporated "llamas with machine guns" into the armed forces, Milei is committed to real equipment, cutting-edge technology, and restoring professional pride to those who risk their lives for the country. Sovereignty is not declared: it's built with economic development and defense capability.
As if a clearer symbol of international repositioning were needed, Milei joins the delegation accompanying María Corina Machado at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway. Argentina once again stands on the right side of history: on the side of those who defend freedom against authoritarianism, not on the side of friendly dictatorships or impoverishing hemispheric projects. Argentina once again occupies the place it should never have left: that of a serious country, committed to Western values and far from the ideological opportunism that for years chained us to others' failures.
Kirchnerism can shout, kick, and call for its last battles to avoid losing its privileges. One only has to see how they cowardly attacked the José C. Paz activists led by Mia Amoroso. But reality is relentless: Argentina is changing. For the first time in decades, the change is heading in the right direction.
The question is as clear as it is decisive: are we moving forward toward a free and prosperous country or will we let the usual suspects drag us back into the swamp? For years they repeated to us that "it couldn't be done," that freedom was a luxury, that order was "adjustment," and that prosperity was "neoliberalism."
But today, reality has shattered their narrative: it is possible to live in a free, orderly, and productive Argentina. The country that for so long we were told was impossible is beginning to emerge from the rubble of the model that impoverished us. All that's needed is something simple, yet essential: never go back again.
