“Libertarians blocking the industry.” This is how the INTI workers title the statement in which they refute point by point the justifications of the Minister of Deregulation, Federico Sturzenegger, in his attempt to legitimize the scrapping of the main public body related to the industry.
By decision of the national government, INTI will dispense with more than a thousand services that served to control, especially, the food and beverage sectors. About 700 workers were employed in them. This not only raised alarm bells about its future effects on society, which will be more unprotected against uncontrolled products. But it also motivated complaints about the business it will generate in private companies, which will have a monopoly on these services, and at a higher cost.
Sturzenegger showing off his ignorance
«The resolution of 42/26 of the @INTIargentina, signed by its President Miguel Ángel Romero, Ezequiel Capelli and Juan Pablo Intelisano, cancels almost a thousand services provided by the Institute. Although many of them were used very little, it is worth explaining why this decision was made,” the minister began his story on the networks.
«To begin with, these services did not have the character of public services, they did not have any particular specificity (for example, testing the durability of a carpet) but were industrial inputs like any other. It is simply not understood why at some point it was decided that the State should make them. But that was not the problem,” he continued.
And he added: «The problem was that @INTIargentina offered these services at a very low price, which means that it was the taxpayer (as we commonly say “VAT on polenta”) who financed these services. In other words, the service was a subsidy to certain companies financed by all of us. It had no epic, it had no externalities, it was just that, the taxpayer paying a business input.
RELEASING OBSTRUCTS TO THE INDUSTRY. The resolution of 42/26 of the @INTIargentinawith the signature of its President Miguel Ángel Romero, Ezequiel Capelli and Juan Pablo Intelisano, cancels almost a thousand services provided by the Institute. Although many of them were used very little,…
— Fede Sturzenegger (@fedesturze) April 16, 2026
From the INTI, the workers responded: “Once again Sturzenegger showed off his ignorance, his constant fight (in which he always loses) with language and a violence typical of the powerless.”
«The only truth about his tweet today is that, indeed, Resolution 42/6 was published in the Official Gazette. Everything he writes below is using the now well-known resource of telling lies in an excited tone, something that worked for him at the beginning of the libertarian government but happily no longer has any effect (just read the comments on his publication on the social network
And they complete: “Those of us who work in Science are dedicated to ratifying or refuting statements, so it is easy for us to do so when faced with an attempted argument that lacks cohesion and coherence, two minimum requirements for a text written by an adult.”
The refutations
Sturzenegger begins by saying that services are downloaded that “did not have any specificity” and gives as an example a specific test such as the one required to know the durability of a product: “From that clumsiness, he jumps headlong into a paragraph where he makes industrial services synonymous with industrial inputs, the evidence that in his suitcase he always carried papers with organizational charts and never a dictionary is supine,” they indicate in the INTI.
«But he stumbles again and wonders, because he says he does not understand (we believe that), why the State decided to provide these services at the time. Short answer: because the State once supported the industry. And from there, he flies quickly (like his friend Adorni on a private jet to Punta del Este) towards contradiction and lies,” they add.
He accuses INTI of providing services at very low prices (as an organization that does not seek profit but rather the development of a sector should do) “and there, he brays lying once again and declaims that these services are paid for by the taxpayer. Well no, the services are paid for by the businessmen who require them, that is why they have a Federico price, otherwise they would be free and there they would be supported by the contribution of taxpayers.
«Next is the best part: he shouts (the texts read with tone) that 12% of the Institute’s staff was dedicated to checking suppliers. “Evidently he did not read the machete that was passed to him correctly, because there are 12, but that is the number of trucks that carried out the verifications and that involved 24 of the 2,300 workers that we currently have!”
To close, another fragrant contradiction: Sturzenegger wants to become a friend of businessmen (in a context of daily destruction of companies) asserting that because of the INTI these services could not be developed by the private sector: “It is a pity that he did not write before his employees Miguel Romero, Juan Pablo Intelisano and Ezequiel Capelli, who act as authorities of the INTI, the authors of the Resolution justified the cancellation of the services because they are already offered by private companies that operate under market conditions.
And they conclude: «We could continue, but we understand that this is sufficient as a written response. Now we will continue to deal with continuing to defend the 700 workers they want to fire (this is the crux of the matter) and society, inside and outside INTI. “Sturzenegger, I hope one day you dare to set foot at INTI, we are waiting for you.”
INTI deputy managers reject the resolution
In this context, the note prepared and signed by all the operational assistant managers of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) was known, rejecting the Resolution that eliminates 1,000 services and puts 700 jobs, productive development and the safety of the population at risk.
Thirteen area managers request “not to move forward with its processing” because the measure “directly impacts substantive functions of the Institute, linked to quality assurance, innovation and access to international markets.”
They mention that the discontinuity of services affects technical support for exports “where traceability, methodological validity and institutional support are decisive”; They affect services associated with certifications and quality systems; to trials linked to innovation processes “fundamental for the development, validation and scaling of new products and technologies.”
They maintain that the decision also affects participation in the Argentine National Quality Plan and accredited testing, and they highlight that a significant proportion of these services (now discontinued) present “a limited, fragmented or non-existent offer in the private sphere, particularly when equivalent conditions of analytical quality, accreditation, traceability, technical interpretation capacity and territorial coverage are considered.”
And they complete: “The INTI not only complements the existing offer, but also covers critical vacancies in the technological system, guaranteeing the productive sector’s access to capabilities that, otherwise, would not be available or would be inaccessible.”
