On January 2, 1992, having just taken office as governor of Santa Cruz, Néstor Kirchner made a decision that today would be labeled by kirchnerismo as a "savage adjustment."
Through provincial decree 309/92, he signed a 15% reduction in public sector salaries and provincial pensions, alleging "inability to pay" the December wages and the corresponding bonus.
This was a measure taken to address a province with a large fiscal deficit. However, the memory of that decree seems to have been selectively forgotten by kirchnerismo, which today criticizes Javier Milei's government for wanting to veto unfeasible laws that would bankrupt the State.
Kirchner's decree, in addition to the salary cut, offered voluntary retirements and "invited" municipalities to imitate the measure. Most did so, except for Río Gallegos and Pico Truncado. Among the signatories of the decree were several names who would later hold key positions in the Nation: Carlos Zannini, Alicia Kirchner, Ricardo Jaime (later convicted of corruption), and Carlos Muratore, an official since the dictatorship era.
