In case anyone wants to look at the data: https://www.indec.gob.ar/ftp/cuadros/economia/sh_oferta_demanda_desest_12_24.xls

Here’s the data on an XMR chart (excluding the pandemic)

And here’s the last section with the downward trend removed.

Last trimester’s GDP growth is almost at the point of significance. In the last chart, I’d wait until either we get a point over the blue line or we have a few more points over the dotted line before doing a victory lap.

In Argentina, photographers usually try to get the most unflattering pictures of politicians so they can sell them to newspapers ideologically opposed to said politicians.

That’s not what’s happening here. He really does look like that. You should see what he looks like when he’s posing for a picture.