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Samanta Gomez and her partner Gustavo Vera chat at her grandmother's house, where they live with their 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)