Despite falling inflation, a majority are failing to make ends meet as wages and purchasing power have nosedived
Francisco Jiménez spends at least eight hours a day, seven days a week, riding through the streets of Buenos Aires as a delivery app rider, yet he still struggles to make ends meet.
Next month, the 32-year-old will have to leave his rented house on the outskirts of Argentina’s capital and move with his wife and three children into his mother-in-law’s flat because he can no longer afford the rent.
“The economy is complicated, my life is complicated because, well, I have three children – they’re growing up, so they eat twice as much … and things keep getting more expensive”, said Jiménez.
Even so, in last Sunday’s midterm elections, which renewed about half of Argentina’s congress, he voted for president Javier Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza (LLA).
