The country risk rose in Argentina 339 points in 2025 Contracting about what happened with various countries in the region where the risk fell sustainly.
This is due to the fact that the country consumed the disbursements received from the IMF (US $ 14 billion) through the purchase of currencies of people who from mid -April to July (it is not yet available with the official figures of August) demanded a somewhat higher figure (US $ 14,730 million). To this reservations are added what is escaped by payment of services, tourism and interest interest, in an economy with low reservations and absence of external credit.
What factors fired the country
Thus, the country expresses not only drag problems from Argentina but also four factors as negative as crucial:
1) The absence of a consistent economic policy that is not reaching October as it is.
2) A remarkable bad monetary praxis in the last two months that aggravated existing problems.
3) A political isolation, with a nonengle apart from the opposition willing to support, which translates not only in loss of voting, but also forces the impulse of opposition projects to compensate for an official strategy as inefficient as socially as socially cruel and reject the vetoes to these projects.
4) The corruption scandals, all of which liquefies the political capital of the government, its legitimacy of popular exercise and consensus and therefore deteriorates expectations negatively influencing the economy.
This set of factors, especially the last three that weighed strong in the last two months, reduced the probability that the government will arrive with margin, putting in crisis the exchange policy and especially the credibility of the exchange band, increasing the expectation of devaluation which generates more pressure in the external sector of the economy.
Out of the underlying problems and political problems, we talk about self -inflicted damages by a cataract of monetary and exchange policy errors committed in the last two months.
After the good June inflation fact, Milei orders Caputo to disarm the letters issued by the Central Bank, the Lefi to capture the liquidity of the banks, daughters and granddaughters of the Lebacs that collapsed in the previous management of Caputo and Sturzenegger and the Leliqs. The admission of Caputo holding the president of such a child error is something unusual and unpublished in the political life of the country. The fuse putting the entire installation at risk so as not to be.
Banks far from offering more credit, or increasing their exposure to public debt with surplus liquidity, forced the government to raise bank lace at 53% unpublished value since the early 90s. This caused a brutal rise of interest rates that further slowed down the economy, slowing down the credit and increasing the credit blackberry by 5.3% of the total the highest value from the global crisis from the global crisis of 2009.
This rate rise was driven by a treasure that failed to renew the maturities of the debt and forced banks to subscribe letters to constitute lace. Even so, the rates reached 75% per year, tripling the expected inflation for the year. The highest real rate in the world in turn increases the payment of interest and deepening the financial deficit that well measured reaches 7% of GDP and that is partially financed with monetary issuance.
All this did not prevent the dollarizing pressure. The government that did not want to buy “cheap” reservations when the exchange rate touched 1100 in the second quarter with the liquidation of the harvest, bought them in July-August above 1350 when the dollarizing demand was already in strong ascent. Thus he had to limit the banks of the dollars of the banks massively intervene in all markets losing an important figure in futures. Figure that could have been even greater but prohibited banks from buying dollars on the last business day of August.
The economic team bet on short -term speculative flows to stop the exchange rate, but the pressure continued in September. An economic team should never boast as happened with so many ministers who said with different words “the one who bets on the dollar will lose.”
The display of “Buy Champion” and the cry of “Fleteaa”, acts of pride that were imposedly answered by the market. A drilled ship cannot float with bad timely waters.
Not only that who bought dollars won, but the government had to announce sales below the band’s roof in the week prior to Buenos Aires elections. A lousy signal that reflects the state of art, after two months of serious mistakes, of constant changes in the rules of the game that aggravate uncertainty, but necessary as a drowned swipe, so that the exchange rate does not reach the ceiling of $ 1460 before the September 7 elections.
The result of the four factors indicated two politicians and two fatally intertwined economic results in a greater recession, a exchange crisis, a regrowth of inflation and greater expectations of devaluation.
There is a country risk so it is not a “kuka risk.” The Government will try to install a campaign of fear to reverse the disastrous result in the province of Buenos Aires. But the country risk is generated by a government policy that weakens for its own Latrocinios, which has an inconsistent plan, which accumulates serious errors and therefore loses legitimacy. If the government had a consistent economic plan and that had social sensitivity, virtually reconciling growth and equity which guarantees long -term growth, it would not only be validated at the polls, but the country risk would fall or the less it would not be altered by an electoral result, a sign of vulnerability to a year and nine months of being a government with what can no longer blame the “heavy inheritance”, to whom it does not govern or a hypothetical future.
The low possibility that the Government will make self -criticism and make the political and economic corrections necessary to relaunch management, make a greater exchange and financial volatility since September 8. The government can arrive with “crutches” in October, but there is no analyst or investor that believes that the current exchange scheme is sustainable more than 45 days and that will trigger additional exchange pressure from Monday.
Non -financial country risk
The serious thing is that the highest country risk is not the financial. Without ignoring the fiscal, exchange and increasing debt that is not sustainable with this policy scheme, the most serious country risk is that of political autism in the face of the deterioration of health, education, the crisis of the productive apparatus, the greatest social debt. The carelessness of road infrastructure, transport, energy disinvestment, the destruction of the scientific and technological system are an infinite potential country risk due to the large resources that it will demand to reverse the economic and social destruction generated by this policy, not only in the present but in the future.
The government must make a Copernican turn, leaving violent and authoritarian drifts, separating corrupt officials, calling a political dialogue to a social agreement, formulating a stabilization plan and a development plan that implies a May pact that is not a single faction scheme, as extreme as destructive, but a plan that enhances national sovereignty, changing the subordinate international insertion, subordinated international insertion, Protect the domestic market, recompose popular income and generate production incentives, making the necessary investments to grow.
The government will not listen to reasons to avoid the precipice, with serious perspectives of greater institutional overflows and a growing bad economic praxis, in this case the economic and social institutional risk will be very serious.
All this forces the main opposition to be prepared to urgently generate a broad consensus behind a comprehensive and consistent economic program, overcoming personalisms and internationals, failures of the past not completely overcome. A plan that resumes human values, restores rights, recovers the national and popular essence, reverses mistakes and horrors committed between 2020 and 2023, aggravated since the end of 2023, reconciling greater productivity and profitability of the economic sectors with a frontal combat to indigence and poverty, advancing on a path to achieve a more equitable society.
The opposition must thus acting rationally avoiding provocations to build a path that lowers all the risks of the country, taking the institutional responsibility that is responsible, to be able to act quickly, if appropriate, within the framework of the rule of law, before the serious integral risks of the times that will come.
Source: Ambito
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