前任政府试图想避免困难的政策选择，掩盖根本性问题，它们实施了无效的控制，导致资源大面积错配，破坏了阿根廷获得支付进口账单所需的外汇收入，导致国内短缺。
Previous governments sought to avoid difficult policy choices and obfuscate fundamental issues by implementing inefficient controls that grossly misallocated resources and undermined Argentina’s ability to generate the foreign-exchange earnings needed to cover its import bill, resulting in domestic shortages.