Milei privatizes Argentina's social tourism hotels, ending 80-year-old Perón-era program

50 workers were dismissed from the Chapadmalal hotel complex in May 2025, generating protests and legal disputes.

For more than eight decades, Argentina's state-owned hotel complexes offered working families a rare and modest gift: the possibility of rest at a price they could afford. Now, under President Javier Milei's sweeping free-market reforms, that social contract is being dissolved — the hotels transferred to private hands, the subsidized rooms priced back into the open market, and the Perón-era vision of leisure as a worker's right quietly retired. What is unfolding in Argentina is not merely a property transaction, but a philosophical reckoning over who the state is obligated to serve, and what h

Milei privatizes Argentina's social tourism hotels, ending 80-year-old Perón-era program

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