OK, but my point is that they are two separate things. You can axe the free education for every mangy-ass wannabe-socialist from Culo del Burro without leaving Mercosur.But that's my point. What does Argentines get from other Mercosur countries? Most of them don't have good Universities like Argentina has. I get they could go and live in those countries but most of those countries are hellholes that most wouldn't want to live in.
Argentina is dead ass broke so a lot of things needs to change including giving free education to all of those countries. That is just wrong.
I'm genuinely interested what the main benefits for staying in it. I get why they started it - https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mercosur-south-americas-fractious-trade-bloc
Mercosur isn't working like it should, true, but it is a trade alliance; it can be fixed, it can be reformed. And Latin America desperately needs one of those if it is to have any hope of reclaiming lost sovereignty and charting its own course. Hopefully not one that leads over a cliff