Alicia Kirchner, an elder of Argentina's most powerful political dynasty, recalls with fondness helping build homes, schools and the first hospital in Rio Gallegos, a small city in the country's windswept Patagonian south.
The Kirchner family, which includes two of the last four presidents in Argentina, have ruled with dominance for decades here in the icy southern province of Santa Cruz, a region they call home, where they own land, investments and hotels.
Argentina is the one of the world's top soy and corn exporters, the biggest debtor to the International Monetary Fund with a $44 billion program, and has been luring investment to its huge resources of shale gas and battery metal lithium. In the shadow of the Andes, signs of the Kirchner family can be seen around the resort, their name honored in street signs and the orange color adopted by the campaign of their chosen mayor, who has governed uninterrupted since 2007.
"There's no money circulating in the streets," said outgoing leftist regional vice governor Eugenio Quiroga, because "people's wages only cover the basics, which is hurting local businesses," - and ultimately public support for the government. Four years ago he backed Peronist Fernandez in the election, and in 2015 mainstream conservative Mauricio Macri. But now he is a convert to Milei, even running on Sunday as a libertarian mayoral candidate in Rio Gallegos.
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