During the years in which Javier Milei established himself as an opposition figure to the government of Alberto Fernández, the power outages They were one of the recurring axes of his criticism of Kirchnerism. Then a recently elected national deputy, the economist used newspaper reports and columns to maintain that the interruptions of the electrical service were the most obvious proof of the “failure of the energy model” promoted by the State.
One of the texts that Milei cited to reinforce this diagnosis was an opinion note published by Clarín in January 2022which warned about the deterioration of the electrical system, the lack of investments and the consequences of years of tariff freezes. The article pointed out that the cuts were not a temporary phenomenon but the result of structural decisions made during the Kirchnerist governments.
In this context, Milei maintained that the problem was neither climatic nor exceptional, but political: he attributed the service failures to state intervention, generalized subsidies, and the absence of incentives to invest in energy generation, transportation, and distribution. For the then libertarian deputy, the blackouts were the tangible demonstration of a system “collapsed by populism.”
However, as President, the scene was repeated again. In different parts of the country, power outages returned amid consumption peaks and heat waves, a situation that occurs today under the libertarian administration. The contrast revived on social networks and in the public debate those statements by Milei when, from the opposition, he pointed out Kirchnerism as the only person responsible for a problem that he now faces from power.
