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leader, in the style of the popular eva peron, who shared the spotlight with her husband, president juan peron, in the all the way to broadway. >> don't cry for me, argentina. >> stahl: the peronist party has dominated argentine politics on and off for the last 70 years. kirchner was a peronist, whose populist economic policies: generous subsidies on things like electricity, high taxes on agricultural exports, burdensome regulations, a bloated bureaucracy, and currency controls, all in combination, crippled the argentine economy. >> alfonso prat-gay: she left an economy that's not been growing for four years now, a stagnant economy. >> stahl: alfonso prat-gay is president macri's minister of finance. >> prat-gay: high inflation. eight years in a row of more than 25% inflation. a significant fiscal deficit. the central bank was running out of reserves. >> stahl: this is what you walked into. >> prat-gay: absolutely. >> stahl: and making matters worse, the government bureau of statistics, called indec, had been minimizing the problems. statistics institute was an institute that was basically lyi