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In 2011, Argentina began to implement a series of foreign exchange controls, going so far as to prohibit the acquisition of foreign currency for nonproductive purposes. In December 2015, after the change of administration, all of the foreign exchange regulations were eliminated and returned to their pre-2001-2002 crisis levels. These reforms were implemented under the mainstreaming vision, with the expectation that capital outflows would be reversed. Nevertheless, after the controls were lifted, according to information from the foreign exchange balance kept by the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) on Foreign Asset Formation (FAF), one year later, capital flight abroad had doubled. This increased currency outflow was financed by rising foreign debt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article outlines and interprets the discourse which representatives of the Argentine government instigated during the process of negotiating external debt from 2003 to 2005 in inverting the argumentative logic employed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to justify the strengthening of Neoliberalism in Argentina after the "2001 crisis". It considers a corpus of data composed by a pertinent sample of 59 articles published in Clarín newspaper analysed according to methodological tools for analysing discourse. It is expected that this task shall facilitate a reflection - with a greater degree of abstraction - on the characteristics of an emerging "anti-neoliberal" discourse as a legitimising axis for the political agenda of officialism in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]