The Argentine justice system makes no exceptions for popular heroes regarding the pace at which it moves. Five and a half years after Diego Armando Maradona’s death, Argentines know that his heart was monstrously large when it stopped beating, weighing 503 grams, almost twice that of an ordinary human. They know that the footballer died of lung edema resulting from acute heart failure. They know that three weeks earlier he had been operated on for a chronic subdural hematoma. They know that he was later transferred to a house to continue his recovery and never left. But there is still one question to be answered: whether his death on November 25, 2020, could have been avoided.

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Argentina’s chief of Cabinet, Manuel Adorni, has become a liability for President Javier Milei. The luxury trips he took with his family and the properties he purchased after entering government are under judicial investigation and have tanked his public image, which is now the worst among all ministers: seven in 10 Argentines disapprove of him.

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Argentine President Javier Milei promised to dismantle the pillars of the Argentina he inherited from Peronism — the populist movement founded by former president Juan Perón — and rebuild a new country from the ground up. One of these pillars, which withstood the onslaught of previous right-wing governments, is labor legislation, whose foundations date back to 1974. This week, the Senate is poised to pass a labor reform that modifies 200 articles of the Employment Contract Law, rendering it unrecognizable. Unlike the attempts made by former presidents Carlos Menem, Fernando de la Rúa, and Mauricio Macri, Milei faces weakened and discredited unions. Also working in his favor is a labor market that has already fragmented and shifted because of technological change and more than a decade of economic stagnation.

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