The brand-new year will come as a grief to hundreds of thousands of Argentinians. If the current economic calculations are anything to go by, millions of Argentinians will join the ranks of country’s ever-growing number of people living below the poverty line. Currently the number of Argentinians living below this mark is staggering 40% of the country’s total population. That number is likely to grow exponentially, under the country’s nonconformist president Javier Milei’s radical economic restructuring programme.