Why did thousands of Argentines go out in the streets to protest their new President? When Javier Melae became the first self-described libertarian head of state in history, he explained that to avert economic disaster in a country facing huge deficits at 160% inflation rate, things would likely get worse before it could get better. We said that the hard decisions that will have to take the next weeks, but unfortunately they have not left us. He allowed direct competition with Argentinus government-owned airline which he plans to privatize, and he defied the country's powerful labor units. The strike was organized by the General Confederation of Labor, Argentinus largest labor union, which represents one out of every five Argentine workers. Melae issued an order ending the automatic withholding of union dues, leaving workers freed opt out, and he banned government workers in sectors like health and education from striking. A court ruling temporarily suspended these measures, but in the meantime unions are making a show of force so that Melae's agenda doesn't make it through Congress. Melae has a seemingly impossible job, but he also has a clear vision for a freer, less regulated and less debt-written Argentina, and he's exceptionally skilled at communicating that picture. Capitalism of free companies is not just a possible system to end the poverty in the world, but it is the only system morally desirable to achieve it. If you adopt measures that entrap the free functioning of the markets, the only possible destination is poverty. But there are powerful political interests determined to stop it. Melae's main political adversaries aren't Argentinus workers. In fact, the self-described anarcho-capitalist is actually pushing to increase welfare in the short term to ease the pain for the working class during this transition to a new economic model. As Argentine political economist Marcos Falcone told reason, his adversaries are actually wealthy Argentines who've benefited from government-largest. Melae is going against current capitalism because he is basically trying to tell the businessmen that have lived off of government support you are done. This is over. We need to move forward, and the people need to be able to profit, not just companies because of regulations and privileges. I want to give you a message to all the companies here present and to those who are not, but who are following us from all sides of the planet. They don't let anything come of me and for the political caste and for the parasites that live in the state. They don't get into a political class that the only one who wants is to perpetuate the power and maintain their privileges. You are social benefactors, you are heroes, you are the creators of the period of prosperity, the most extraordinary thing we have ever experienced. Nobody tells you that your moral ambitions, if you give money, is because they offer a better product, a better price, contributing in that way to the future. They don't get to the front of the state, the state is not the solution, the state is the problem itself. We lay faces a thicket of regulations and political resistance. It will not be easy. We'll have to wait and see if you pick the right chainsaw for the job.