image

Samanta Gomez, who is recovering from a stroke, talks during an interview with AFP at her grandmother's house, where she lives with her partner and three children, in Buenos Aires' outskirts on March 11, 2024. Argentina's middle class is vanishing: with austerity cuts introduced by self-proclaimed "anarcho-capitalist" President Javier Milei, ever more people cannot afford schooling or medicine, even those holding down two jobs. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/JUAN MABROMATA)