Not your father's Peronists: Why Macri flopped with young Argentines


  • World
  • Monday, 19 Aug 2019

A combination picture shows young Argentinians who voted in the primary elections, in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 15-16, 2019. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - For Luis Joaquin Caro, who was about 2 years old when Argentina last defaulted on its debt in 2001, casting his vote for left-leaning Peronist candidate Alberto Fernandez in the country's recent primary election was a no-brainer.

"During the Kirchner years, I lived very well," he said, referring to what now seems like a bygone era of his young life before four years of spending cuts and austerity measures under President Mauricio Macri.

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