Javier Milei has backed down on his election promise to replace the peso with the dollar to revive the flagging economy. Despite the U-turn and runaway inflation, opinion polls show strong public support for Argentina's new president.
I think his rationale is to take away monetary control from future administrations, which I think is a laudable goal. Argentina should be the richest country in South America, but its people keep getting robbed by the printing press. I wonder if going to a gold standard (or if they feel like rolling the dice, a Bitcoin standard) would be a better option.
(Cue the anti-crypto arguments because I mentioned Bitcoin)