Even before kicking off a three-day visit to Madrid on Friday, Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei stirred controversy, accusing the socialist government of bringing “poverty and death” to Spain and weighing in on corruption allegations against the prime minister’s wife. Source link
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — When Luana Salva got her first formal job after years of prostitution, she was ecstatic. A quota law in Argentina that promoted the inclusion of transgender people in the work force – unprecedented in Latin America expect in neighboring Uruguay – pulled her from the capital’s street corners into the Foreign […]
President Javier Milei entered office like Jack Nicholson breaking his way into the bathroom in “The Shining” — with an axe. Armed with emergency powers granted by the Argentine Congress, he balanced the country’s out-of-control budget in one month, fired government workers by the thousands, eliminated more than 200,000 “corrupt” social welfare programs, and […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — One is an erratic billionaire entrepreneur and self-declared free-speech absolutist, prone to profanity-laden rants against “wokeness” and obsessed with making humanity a multi-planetary species. The other is an iconoclastic Latin American leader and self-declared anarcho-capitalist, prone to cloning his dead dogs and obsessed with destroying state controls. Tech executive Elon Musk […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina said Wednesday that it had cut 15,000 state jobs as part of President Javier Milei’s aggressive campaign to slash spending, the latest in a series of painful economic measures that have put the libertarian government on a collision course with angry protesters and powerful trade unions. Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni […]
Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, was one of the notable international guest speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Maryland over the weekend. Milei met former President Donald Trump while backstage at CPAC on Saturday, and the friendly and unscripted moment between them went viral. Upon seeing Trump, he exclaimed, “President!” The two […]
If you want to watch leftist heads explode, show them the video below. It was a historic embrace. The former American President Donald Trump hugging it out with Argentina’s populist President Javier Milei backstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Trump leaned into the camera, saying: “Make […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Just over a month after taking office, libertarian President Javier Milei faced a one-day general strike Wednesday protesting his decree targeting Argentina‘s unions as well as his proposals for economic and labor law changes. The biggest union, known by its acronym CGT, organized the strike and was joined by other unions. […]
A little over 17 years ago, when pudgy Venezuelan socialist strongman Hugo Chávez appeared at the United Nations — giving his speech after then-U.S. President George W. Bush had spoken to the general assembly — he sensed the feeling of an unholy presence. “This is another abuse and another abuse of power on the part […]
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