Argentina wasn’t reformed—it was repossessed. Milei didn’t save the economy—he sold it. The IMF wrote the contract, BlackRock took the keys, and Trump 2.0 cheered as another Global South nation was dragged back into colonial debt servitude.

By Weaponized Information
April 12, 2025

The peso has been sacrificed. The republic dismembered. And Wall Street got it all wholesale.

On April 11, 2025, Argentina announced a sweeping overhaul of its foreign exchange system. The peso would now float freely within a 1,000–1,400 band per U.S. dollar. In lockstep, the government secured a $20 billion IMF loan, with $12 billion disbursed immediately.

But this wasn’t economic policy—it was imperial foreclosure. This was Argentina delivering itself to BlackRock, Vanguard, and the Wall Street syndicate that has quietly seized power through debt, deregulation, and digital capital flows.

Austerity Isn’t Reform. It’s War by Other Means.

The conditions of the new IMF agreement are textbook austerity: end subsidies, deregulate prices, cut public spending, dismantle FX controls. But the real objective isn’t “stabilization”—it’s to smooth the exit for major creditors like BlackRock, who now hold billions in Argentine debt and equities across energy, banking, and agribusiness.

BlackRock’s 2025 Outlook called for “policy certainty” and “fiscal sustainability” in emerging markets. Milei delivered both—at the cost of Argentina’s economy and sovereignty.

Argentina Is Not Being Saved. It’s Being Auctioned Off.

These reforms are a shopping spree for finance capital. With the peso in freefall, foreign capital is now scooping up land, ports, and public infrastructure for pennies on the dollar. The Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank quickly pledged another $22 billion combined to “stabilize reserves.”

What they’re really doing is underwriting Argentina’s fire sale to U.S.-aligned private equity and tech firms.

Trump 2.0’s Latin America Doctrine: Buy It, Strip It, Militarize It

Argentina under Milei is the prototype for Trump 2.0’s new hemispheric strategy. Align with U.S. capital, smash labor protections, criminalize dissent, open up critical minerals and agriculture to Wall Street, and integrate surveillance infrastructure funded by Thiel-affiliated firms.

In return, you get IMF loans and State Department praise. Sovereignty, meanwhile, is off the menu.

The IMF Is Just Empire’s Accountant

The Extended Fund Facility agreement signed last week formalizes what monopoly capital had already dictated. The IMF doesn’t write the script—it stamps it. And this time, it signed off on the liquidation of Argentina’s domestic economy to satisfy U.S.-based investors with a long memory and short patience.

The Human Cost: Starvation for Stability

The deregulation of the FX market is already leading to inflation spikes. March saw a rise to 3.7%, ending a downward trend. Devaluation is gutting wages. Pensioners, teachers, transport workers—they’re all being thrown under the same bus that’s chauffeuring BlackRock executives out of Ezeiza with suitcases of capital gains.

This isn’t an economic model. It’s a class war offensive launched from Wall Street and waged through local collaborators like Milei—who, make no mistake, is not governing but liquidating.

Conclusion: Empire’s Coup d’Argentine

Argentina is being restructured—into a resource-exporting, dollar-dependent, surveillance-governed experiment in asset management imperialism. And the first thing to go was sovereignty.

But history hasn’t ended. Argentina knows how to fight back. From the piqueteros to the factory takeovers to the plaza occupations—the people have faced down empire before. And they will again.

BlackRock may hold the bonds. But it doesn’t hold the barricades.