A woman leans on a counter while waiting to receive free medicine at the Rodolfo Rossi Hospital in La Plata, Argentina, Thursday, May 8, 2025. According to experts, government workers and advocates, President Javier Milei's cutbacks have overwhelmed the nation’s public hospitals, upended vaccination efforts and taken a toll on the country’s poor and unemployed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Argentines reel from health care cutbacks as President Milei’s state overhaul mirrors Trump’s
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — To outsiders, the Facebook group chat reads like a snarl of nonsensical emojis and letters. To uninsured Argentine cancer patients, it’s a lifeline. The surreptitious network connects advocates who have spare drugs to Argentines with cancer who lost access to their treatment in March 2024 when President Javier Milei suspended a federal agency, […]
JUNE 18, 2025
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