Argentine President Javier Milei announced that in the first quarter of 2024, Argentina reached a fiscal surplus of 0.2% of gross domestic product due to severe spending cuts and the halting of public works, marking the country's first quarterly fiscal surplus since 2008, Bloomberg reported on April 22. Meanwhile, Argentina's main public universities, opposition parties and trade unions in Buenos Aires and other large cities will protest spending cuts in public education on April 23.