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UPDATE 1-Argentine workers launch general strike against Milei reforms, austerity

Argentine unions launched a huge general strike on Thursday against painful austerity measures and planned reforms by new libertarian President Javier Milei, whose cost-cutting drive has stabilized local markets but hammered the real economy. The South American country saw public transport, the important grains crushing sector, supermarkets, airports and banks grind to a halt for 24 hours as most of the major unions joined the protest action against the government. Milei, an economist and former media pundit, won a shock election last year pledging to fix with a "chainsaw" an economic crisis that snowballed under previous governments, leading to depleted reserves and triple-digit inflation.