The president-elect of Argentina, Latin America’s third-largest economy, will be sworn in on December 10th as a far-right social media user who praises Donald Trump.
“The whole world was watching! I’m so proud of you. You’re going to turn the country around and truly make Argentina great again!” President Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform about libertarian economics. wrote about scholars Javier MillaySunday victory.
The White House said: President Joe Biden Milley called to celebrate the victory, saying: “The strong relationship between the United States and Argentina on economic issues, regional cooperation, multilateral cooperation, and shared priorities such as advocating for human rights, addressing food insecurity, and investment.” talked about. With clean energy. ”
Milley, a 53-year-old former television critic, defeated the president in the presidential runoff with nearly 56 percent of the vote. sergio massa A centre-left minister who oversees the country’s troubled economy under current President Alberto Fernández.
Voters demand an end to economic misery
“Voters in this country of 46 million people demanded fundamental changes to a government that has seen the peso collapse, inflation soar and more than 40 percent of the population impoverished.” washington post report. “With Millay, Argentina leaps into the unknown – with a leader who promises to destroy the entire system.”
Interview with ex-boyfriend FOX News host Tucker Carlson In September, Milley called on President Trump to “continue the fight against socialism, because he is one of the few who fully understands that this is a fight against socialism and a fight against nationalists.” ” he called out.
In his first speech as president-elect, Millay told Argentines that “the model of decadence has come to an end. There is no going back.”
“Enough of the impoverishing power of caste,” he said. “Today, we once again embrace the model of freedom and once again become a world power.”
Millay’s appointment comes as Argentina marks the 40th anniversary of its return to democracy after the fall of a punitive military dictatorship.
“We have nothing to lose,” Tomas Limodio, a 36-year-old businessman who voted for Millay in Buenos Aires on Sunday, told The Washington Post. “We’ve had a government like this for many years, and things are only getting worse.”
Nursing student John Flores, 24, said: “Massa wants to solve the problems she has caused,” she said. “We, especially the young people, are tired.”
concerns about the future
Argentina has a president who calls fellow Argentinian Pope Francis an “evil” left-winger, climate change a “socialist lie,” and says he will hold a referendum to repeal a three-year-old law. Some people are concerned. legalized abortion In a country with an overwhelmingly Catholic population.
“We never want fascism, ultra-conservatism and neoliberalism to succeed,” Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales said. Reuters reported.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro commented on Millei’s victory in a post on X (formerly Twitter): “It’s sad for Latin America.”
“I don’t see a future for anyone with that man,” Veronica Cerminaro, 44, an Argentine public sector worker, told the Washington Post about Millay.
