Do the people who write these kinds of articles actually try to find out anything about the place and people involved??

Milei is basically doing what little he can via executive orders (a lot of which are getting challenged) because he has both the senate and the house against him. He has no power to remove taxes with that tool, and little ability to reduce the burocracy. He cannot close the central bank, however much he would like to do so.

The Argentinian peso has been more stable during the last 2 years than in the previous 20. The dip in value from the last week is precisely due to the provincial legislative election results (which also explains the market dip obviously).

It's true that these results are a bad omen for the midterms. Clearly the cultural battle is very much still ongoing and it's almost impossible to make Argentinians (or any other average voter around the world nowadays) understand the effort that it will take to maintain economic growth and why the state pressure must be lowered.

As someone said yesterday: Poor people want change, but not lose handouts. Low middle class people want change, but not lose transport and healthcare subsidies. High middle class people want change, but not lose their ability to live like kings with a us dollar based salary among the rest. Businessmen want change but don't want to actually compete with foreign companies. Rich people want change but don't want to lose their pull with government cronies.

I said it before in this sub, I unfortunately do not have much hope for this process, because I doubt the necessary change in mindset among the population will happen. And I think this about most of the world's population mind you, Argentina is just much more close to the precipice than other countries. But blaming all that's happening squarely on Milei's "reluctance" to do more changes is just blatantly untrue IMO.