LE FIGARO : Les députés d’opposition estiment que la promotion de ce projet d’actif numérique a pu être orchestrée par le président argentin pour générer des gains sur certains portefeuilles et renvoie le dossier au parlement.
Nouveau rebondissement dans l’affaire de promotion illégale d’une cryptomonnaie qui vise le président argentin. Une commission d'enquête parlementaire, présidée par l'opposition à Javier Milei, a rendu mardi 18 novembre son rapport sur l'affaire d'une cryptomonnaie que le président avait promue sur X en février, concluant à une «escroquerie présumée». La commission de la chambre des députés, au pouvoir toutefois limité, estime dans son rapport que «les faits analysés pourraient être compatibles avec une escroquerie présumée», et «une responsabilité politique de Javier Milei et de Karina Milei», sa sœur et secrétaire générale de la présidence. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | mercredi 19 novembre 2025
Showing posts with label Javier Milei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Javier Milei. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Sunday, November 02, 2025
Argentine: une Marche des fiertés contre les politiques de Javier Milei
LE FIGARO : Les crimes de haine contre les personnes lesbiennes, gays, bisexuelles et transgenres ont augmenté de 70% en Argentine au cours du premier semestre 2025 par rapport à la même période l’an dernier.
Des dizaines de milliers de personnes ont participé samedi à Buenos Aires à la 34e Marche des fiertés, marquée par des slogans critiquant le gouvernement du président ultralibéral Javier Milei, qui vient de remporter les législatives de mi-mandat. La mobilisation, organisée par des organisations de défense des droits humains et des collectifs LGBTQ, s'est déroulée sous le slogan «Face à la haine et à la violence: plus de fierté et d'unité», au départ de la Place de Mai. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | dimanche 2 novembre 2025
Des dizaines de milliers de personnes ont participé samedi à Buenos Aires à la 34e Marche des fiertés, marquée par des slogans critiquant le gouvernement du président ultralibéral Javier Milei, qui vient de remporter les législatives de mi-mandat. La mobilisation, organisée par des organisations de défense des droits humains et des collectifs LGBTQ, s'est déroulée sous le slogan «Face à la haine et à la violence: plus de fierté et d'unité», au départ de la Place de Mai. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | dimanche 2 novembre 2025
Thursday, October 30, 2025
The Guardian View on Argentina’s Election: One Step Closer to Becoming a Trumpian Client State
THE GUARDIAN — EDITORIAL: A $40bn rescue may have helped Javier Milei scrape through midterms, but it leaves Argentina’s democracy and economy more dependent than ever on Washington
Argentina’s rightwing president, Javier Milei, his party and its allies claimed victory this week in key congressional elections. But it was Donald Trump who emerged the biggest winner. A $40bn lifeline from the US president gave Mr Milei’s beleaguered government just enough credibility – and apparent firepower – to halt the Argentinian peso’s slide. Crucially, this helped to stabilise consumer prices in the final weeks of the campaign. The US rescue engendered a short-lived aura of competence that allowed Mr Milei to shift the blame for rising prices back to the opposition, despite his own role in accelerating inflation by devaluing the currency when he took office.
Mr Milei’s wasn’t a decisive triumph. His rightwing coalition got 40% of the midterms vote thanks largely to a low turnout and a fragmented opposition. His “chainsaw” programme of privatisation and public spending cuts has not been popular. Polls suggest that six in 10 voters disapprove. Unsurprising, perhaps: since Mr Milei took office in December 2023, Argentinians’ purchasing power has fallen sharply, real wages have declined and more than 200,000 jobs have been lost. » | Editorial | Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Argentina’s rightwing president, Javier Milei, his party and its allies claimed victory this week in key congressional elections. But it was Donald Trump who emerged the biggest winner. A $40bn lifeline from the US president gave Mr Milei’s beleaguered government just enough credibility – and apparent firepower – to halt the Argentinian peso’s slide. Crucially, this helped to stabilise consumer prices in the final weeks of the campaign. The US rescue engendered a short-lived aura of competence that allowed Mr Milei to shift the blame for rising prices back to the opposition, despite his own role in accelerating inflation by devaluing the currency when he took office.
Mr Milei’s wasn’t a decisive triumph. His rightwing coalition got 40% of the midterms vote thanks largely to a low turnout and a fragmented opposition. His “chainsaw” programme of privatisation and public spending cuts has not been popular. Polls suggest that six in 10 voters disapprove. Unsurprising, perhaps: since Mr Milei took office in December 2023, Argentinians’ purchasing power has fallen sharply, real wages have declined and more than 200,000 jobs have been lost. » | Editorial | Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Reformen mit der Kettensäge: Argentinier bestätigen libertäre Politik des Präsidenten Milei
Javier Milei Is No Libertarian. He Is Beholden to Argentina’s Oligarchs.
UNHERD: You have seen the spectacle. The wild sideburns, the rousing speeches, the roaring chainsaw, the heavy metal music dominating his mass rallies. Javier Milei, the self-styled shackle-breaking, anarcho-capitalist madman, marketed himself as a radical departure from everything that came before. He was going to blow up Argentina’s corrupt political casta, abolish its central bank, adopt the dollar and every kind of crypto coin out there as Argentina’s competing currencies. It was a gutsy bid to replace a century of Peronist and neoliberal failure with the libertarian’s dream: a pure, unadulterated, free market.
Across the globe, the nationalist Right, from Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Britain’s Daily Telegraph, lionised him. Niall Ferguson, the financial oligarchy’s court historian, declared a “man-made miracle” in the making. For a few brief months, as Argentina’s inflation rate plunged from its peaks, and even the poverty rates seemed to decrease, the chorus of fanboys grew deafening. Until everyone fell silent.
Today, the miracle has been exposed as a mirage. Argentina’s economy has nose-dived and its peso is in a death spiral, with a desperate $20-billion lifeline from the US and yet more rescue loans from the IMF keeping the Milei show on the road until the forthcoming mid-term elections. Closer inspection of the poverty reduction sub-miracle also reveals a mirage: the only reason the relative poverty index dropped was that median incomes had fallen faster than those at the bottom with the result that that fewer people now count as poor. The situation in Argentina is what you would call a meltdown — but is it really a surprise? » | Yanis Varoufakis | Thursday, October 16, 2025
Across the globe, the nationalist Right, from Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Britain’s Daily Telegraph, lionised him. Niall Ferguson, the financial oligarchy’s court historian, declared a “man-made miracle” in the making. For a few brief months, as Argentina’s inflation rate plunged from its peaks, and even the poverty rates seemed to decrease, the chorus of fanboys grew deafening. Until everyone fell silent.
Today, the miracle has been exposed as a mirage. Argentina’s economy has nose-dived and its peso is in a death spiral, with a desperate $20-billion lifeline from the US and yet more rescue loans from the IMF keeping the Milei show on the road until the forthcoming mid-term elections. Closer inspection of the poverty reduction sub-miracle also reveals a mirage: the only reason the relative poverty index dropped was that median incomes had fallen faster than those at the bottom with the result that that fewer people now count as poor. The situation in Argentina is what you would call a meltdown — but is it really a surprise? » | Yanis Varoufakis | Thursday, October 16, 2025
Argentina's Milei Vows More Reforms after Election Triumph
Oct 27, 2025 | Argentina's President Javier Milei said his party's big victory in the nation's midterm elections marked a turning point and vowed to pursue reforms his government still considers necessary.
'Today we pass through a turning point,' Milei said after the results. Milei's party cruised to victory in midterm legislative elections as voters backed his free-market reforms and deep austerity measures, providing a mandate for him to push forward with his radical overhaul of the economy. The results will also likely be welcome news to US president Donald Trump, whose administration recently provided Argentina with a hefty financial bailout but had threatened to pull away if Milei did not do well.
Little good will come of this clown's reforms. They will enrich the superrich of Argentina and impoverish the masses. How Argentinians can vote for this madman is beyond my comprehension. — © Mark Alexander
'Today we pass through a turning point,' Milei said after the results. Milei's party cruised to victory in midterm legislative elections as voters backed his free-market reforms and deep austerity measures, providing a mandate for him to push forward with his radical overhaul of the economy. The results will also likely be welcome news to US president Donald Trump, whose administration recently provided Argentina with a hefty financial bailout but had threatened to pull away if Milei did not do well.
Little good will come of this clown's reforms. They will enrich the superrich of Argentina and impoverish the masses. How Argentinians can vote for this madman is beyond my comprehension. — © Mark Alexander
Monday, October 27, 2025
Milei’s Win in Argentina Had Trump’s Fingerprints All Over It. But Just How Long Will Their Friendship Last?
THE GUARDIAN — OPINION: The Argentine president’s libertarian experiment is in tatters, and his hold on power seems increasingly dependent on volatile US support
In 1946, Argentina was emerging from military rule, an empowered labour movement was reshaping politics and Col Juan Perón, a leftwing leader who had introduced a raft of popular workers’ rights decrees, was rising fast in the polls. The then US ambassador, Spruille Braden, had other ideas about who should win the national election that year, and he openly campaigned against Perón in Buenos Aires. Braden’s action stands out as one of the most brazen instances of US interference in Argentina’s politics. Until now.
The Argentine president, Javier Milei, who won a resounding midterm victory on Sunday, has received ample support from Donald Trump. Ahead of the congressional elections, Trump endorsed Milei and warned: “If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina.” Washington extended a $20bn currency swap line to the government – money aimed at stabilising financial volatility that would have undermined Milei’s chances. The US treasury even intervened directly, buying more than a billion dollars of pesos to slow the currency’s freefall in recent weeks. » | Jordana Timerman | Monday, October 27, 2025
In 1946, Argentina was emerging from military rule, an empowered labour movement was reshaping politics and Col Juan Perón, a leftwing leader who had introduced a raft of popular workers’ rights decrees, was rising fast in the polls. The then US ambassador, Spruille Braden, had other ideas about who should win the national election that year, and he openly campaigned against Perón in Buenos Aires. Braden’s action stands out as one of the most brazen instances of US interference in Argentina’s politics. Until now.
The Argentine president, Javier Milei, who won a resounding midterm victory on Sunday, has received ample support from Donald Trump. Ahead of the congressional elections, Trump endorsed Milei and warned: “If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina.” Washington extended a $20bn currency swap line to the government – money aimed at stabilising financial volatility that would have undermined Milei’s chances. The US treasury even intervened directly, buying more than a billion dollars of pesos to slow the currency’s freefall in recent weeks. » | Jordana Timerman | Monday, October 27, 2025
Wahlsieg in Argentinien: Warum deutsche Politiker solche Angst vor Javier Milei haben
BERLINER ZEITUNG: Friedrich Merz und die deutsche Nomenklatura verteufeln Argentiniens Präsidenten aus gutem Grund. Denn wenn die libertäre Revolution gelingt, stehen Staatsapparate weltweit infrage. Ein Kommentar.
Auf den ersten Blick sollte Javier Milei Deutschland egal sein. Bis nach Buenos Aires sind es aus Berlin mehr als 11.000 Kilometer. In der Außenhandelsbilanz liegt Argentinien hinter Serbien, Kasachstan und Lettland. Wir konkurrieren mit den Argentiniern höchstens bei der Fußballweltmeisterschaft. Und doch erzürnt der libertäre Präsident deutsche Politiker und Journalisten wie kaum ein anderer Staatschef, Trump und Orbán selbstverständlich ausgenommen. Seit Jahren wird er in Leitmedien, bei ARD und ZDF als Rechtspopulist verteufelt, von der Zeit gar als Faschist betitelt.
Und so waren es der Tränen in deutschen Redaktionen und Parteizentralen heute wieder viele, ob des Umstands, dass der Mann mit den wilden Koteletten die Zwischenwahlen zum Kongress am Sonntag mit einem Erdrutschsieg für sich entscheiden konnte. Mehr als 40 Prozent der Stimmen konnte seine Partei, La Libertad Avanza, auf sich vereinen. Wer genau hinschaut, sieht: Auf den zweiten Blick besteht für die Sorge der Berliner Blase jeder Anlass. Denn die Nomenklatura der Bundesrepublik weiß: Wenn Mileis Experiment funktioniert, ist Europas Staatsfetisch in höchster Gefahr. » | Moritz Eichhorn | Montag, 27. Oktober 2025
Auf den ersten Blick sollte Javier Milei Deutschland egal sein. Bis nach Buenos Aires sind es aus Berlin mehr als 11.000 Kilometer. In der Außenhandelsbilanz liegt Argentinien hinter Serbien, Kasachstan und Lettland. Wir konkurrieren mit den Argentiniern höchstens bei der Fußballweltmeisterschaft. Und doch erzürnt der libertäre Präsident deutsche Politiker und Journalisten wie kaum ein anderer Staatschef, Trump und Orbán selbstverständlich ausgenommen. Seit Jahren wird er in Leitmedien, bei ARD und ZDF als Rechtspopulist verteufelt, von der Zeit gar als Faschist betitelt.
Und so waren es der Tränen in deutschen Redaktionen und Parteizentralen heute wieder viele, ob des Umstands, dass der Mann mit den wilden Koteletten die Zwischenwahlen zum Kongress am Sonntag mit einem Erdrutschsieg für sich entscheiden konnte. Mehr als 40 Prozent der Stimmen konnte seine Partei, La Libertad Avanza, auf sich vereinen. Wer genau hinschaut, sieht: Auf den zweiten Blick besteht für die Sorge der Berliner Blase jeder Anlass. Denn die Nomenklatura der Bundesrepublik weiß: Wenn Mileis Experiment funktioniert, ist Europas Staatsfetisch in höchster Gefahr. » | Moritz Eichhorn | Montag, 27. Oktober 2025
Milei’s Party Wins High-stakes Argentina Elections, Early Results Show
Oct 27, 2025 | The party of Argentinian President Javier Milei has won midterm elections clinching a crucial vote of confidence in his free-market reforms and deep austerity measures.
Early results show Milei's Libertarian Party secured more than 40 percent of votes.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Early results show Milei's Libertarian Party secured more than 40 percent of votes.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Why Trump's $20 Billion Bailout of Argentina Might Not Be Enough to Rescue Milei | DW News
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Why Support for Argentina's Milei Is Waning | DW News
Argentinians have placed their trust in a madman! Unfortunately, Javier Milei has virually zero chance of fixing Argentina's economic woes. Fixing Argentina's economy requires a leader with a level head and sound, sensible, and fair economic policies. Milei's radical, anarcho-capitalistic policies are neither sound nor sensible nor fair! — © Mark Alexander
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina's President Milei While Firing Thousands of Workers in US?
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Trump Threatens to Cut US Aid to Argentina If Milei Loses Election
THE GUARDIAN: US president says ‘we will not be generous’ if leader fails to win key midterms after promising $20bn to prop up struggling economy
Donald Trump has warned he could cut financial aid to Argentina if his ally Javier Milei loses crucial legislative elections later this month.
“If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina,” the US president said as Milei visited the White House to seek the Republican’s political and economic support. “I’m with this man because his philosophy is correct. And he may win and he may not win – I think he’s going to win. And if he wins we are staying with him, and if he doesn’t win we are gone.”
Trump’s administration has already promised $20bn to prop up Argentina’s struggling economy but his backing has failed to calm the markets – or help Milei’s polling before midterms on 26 October.
The results of the elections, in which Milei’s minority party is hoping to boost its seat tally, will dictate whether he can pass tough cost-cutting reforms or will face a legislative brick wall for the next two years of his term.
Hailing Milei as a “great leader”, Trump said he would “fully endorse” his ideological ally in the elections. “He’s Maga all the way, it’s ‘Make Argentina Great Again,’” he added. » | Agencies | Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Donald Trump has warned he could cut financial aid to Argentina if his ally Javier Milei loses crucial legislative elections later this month.
“If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina,” the US president said as Milei visited the White House to seek the Republican’s political and economic support. “I’m with this man because his philosophy is correct. And he may win and he may not win – I think he’s going to win. And if he wins we are staying with him, and if he doesn’t win we are gone.”
Trump’s administration has already promised $20bn to prop up Argentina’s struggling economy but his backing has failed to calm the markets – or help Milei’s polling before midterms on 26 October.
The results of the elections, in which Milei’s minority party is hoping to boost its seat tally, will dictate whether he can pass tough cost-cutting reforms or will face a legislative brick wall for the next two years of his term.
Hailing Milei as a “great leader”, Trump said he would “fully endorse” his ideological ally in the elections. “He’s Maga all the way, it’s ‘Make Argentina Great Again,’” he added. » | Agencies | Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Milei's Shock Therapy for Argentina: Economic Miracle or Mirage? • FRANCE 24 English
Wednesday, October 08, 2025
Argentina's Milei Launches New Book with Rock Concert amid Political Turmoil
Oct 7, 2025 | Argentina's president Javier Milei has headlined a concert marking the release of a new book he hopes will revive his flagging fortunes. It comes ahead of midterm elections, seen as a test of his radical economic policies and a measure of damage done to his government by a series of scandals.
Al Jazeera’s Daniel Schweimler reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This isn’t leadership; this is craziness! That man behaves as though he should be sectioned! God help the Argentinians! That’s all I can say. — © Mark Alexander
Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes: Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’ »
Al Jazeera’s Daniel Schweimler reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This isn’t leadership; this is craziness! That man behaves as though he should be sectioned! God help the Argentinians! That’s all I can say. — © Mark Alexander
Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes: Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’ »
Tuesday, October 07, 2025
Farage, Trump, Musk: Your Boy Javier Milei Just Took One Hell of a Beating. Why So Quiet?
THE GUARDIAN: The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence
So you really want to know how Prime Minister Farage would pan out? Well, speculate no longer. An excellent test case is unfolding right now, in a country that just so happens to be run by one of Nigel’s heroes. Javier Milei is “amazing”, said the CEO of the private company he calls Reform. “Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
You may know some of this story, about how a political outsider took power in Argentina. You’ve seen photos of El Loco, the self-styled madman, in a black leather jacket, with sideburns like hedges and wielding a giant red chainsaw – all the better to slash the public sector with.
Taking over Latin America’s second-largest country made Milei the poster boy of the international hard right. Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” In office, he was lionised by Wall Street and the international commentariat. Milei’s economy was declared by no lesser sage than Niall Ferguson as a “man-made miracle”.
Yet over the past few weeks, Argentina has gone into freefall. Investors have yanked billions out of the country, and the peso has dropped like a stone. A few days ago Trump was forced to pledge $20bn (£15bn) to prop up his friend, in addition to a rescue loan from the IMF. Later this month, Milei faces midterm elections that will serve as a referendum on his presidency and the results are expected to be bad. “We are seeing in real time how a government can melt in front of our eyes,” Alejandro Bercovich, a leading Argentine TV and radio journalist told me this week. “I never thought they would collapse this quickly.” » | Aditya Chakrabortty | Thursday, October 2, 2025
My regular visitors will surely remember that I stated loud and clear from day one that Javier Milei’s stupid experiment with anarcho-capitalism would fail. And my words are coming true very quickly.
You cannot run an economy as you run a business. The skills needed to run a business are totally different from the skills needed to run an economy. Intelligent, well-educated leaders and politicians should know this, but clearly many of them do not.
There is a simple reason why a businessman’s skills and a politician’s skills are very different, and it is simple to understand: the goal for a successful businessman is always profit; the goal of a good political leader should always be a successful economy run for the benefit of ALL the nation’s citizens. A nation’s leader is not doing his job properly if some of the citizens are living in the lap of luxury whilst others are going to bed at night hungry. When that happens, the leader has FAILED, regardless of how well the nation’s economy is doing on the international stage.
We need look no further than America for a lesson in how NOT to run an economy! Trump is trying to run the US using the business skills he boasts of possessing. And we can all see the mess that he has created. He has failed. And in Argentina, Javier Milei will also fail, I’m sorry to say. If I am not greatly mistaken, Milei’s reckless experiment in anarcho-capitalism will end in pain, misery, and tears for the masses. — © Mark Alexander
So you really want to know how Prime Minister Farage would pan out? Well, speculate no longer. An excellent test case is unfolding right now, in a country that just so happens to be run by one of Nigel’s heroes. Javier Milei is “amazing”, said the CEO of the private company he calls Reform. “Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
You may know some of this story, about how a political outsider took power in Argentina. You’ve seen photos of El Loco, the self-styled madman, in a black leather jacket, with sideburns like hedges and wielding a giant red chainsaw – all the better to slash the public sector with.
Taking over Latin America’s second-largest country made Milei the poster boy of the international hard right. Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” In office, he was lionised by Wall Street and the international commentariat. Milei’s economy was declared by no lesser sage than Niall Ferguson as a “man-made miracle”.
Yet over the past few weeks, Argentina has gone into freefall. Investors have yanked billions out of the country, and the peso has dropped like a stone. A few days ago Trump was forced to pledge $20bn (£15bn) to prop up his friend, in addition to a rescue loan from the IMF. Later this month, Milei faces midterm elections that will serve as a referendum on his presidency and the results are expected to be bad. “We are seeing in real time how a government can melt in front of our eyes,” Alejandro Bercovich, a leading Argentine TV and radio journalist told me this week. “I never thought they would collapse this quickly.” » | Aditya Chakrabortty | Thursday, October 2, 2025
My regular visitors will surely remember that I stated loud and clear from day one that Javier Milei’s stupid experiment with anarcho-capitalism would fail. And my words are coming true very quickly.
You cannot run an economy as you run a business. The skills needed to run a business are totally different from the skills needed to run an economy. Intelligent, well-educated leaders and politicians should know this, but clearly many of them do not.
There is a simple reason why a businessman’s skills and a politician’s skills are very different, and it is simple to understand: the goal for a successful businessman is always profit; the goal of a good political leader should always be a successful economy run for the benefit of ALL the nation’s citizens. A nation’s leader is not doing his job properly if some of the citizens are living in the lap of luxury whilst others are going to bed at night hungry. When that happens, the leader has FAILED, regardless of how well the nation’s economy is doing on the international stage.
We need look no further than America for a lesson in how NOT to run an economy! Trump is trying to run the US using the business skills he boasts of possessing. And we can all see the mess that he has created. He has failed. And in Argentina, Javier Milei will also fail, I’m sorry to say. If I am not greatly mistaken, Milei’s reckless experiment in anarcho-capitalism will end in pain, misery, and tears for the masses. — © Mark Alexander
Wednesday, October 01, 2025
The Guardian View on Trump’s Argentina Bailout: It’s a Political Play, Not an Economic Plan
THE GUARDIAN — EDITORIAL: Washington’s $20bn lifeline for rightwing populist Javier Milei isn’t about stability or sovereignty, it’s about winning an election
Last month, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, vowed to do “whatever it takes” to support Argentina’s rightwing president, Javier Milei, a key ally of Donald Trump. Markets aren’t convinced. On Tuesday, the peso plunged by more than 6% before a central bank intervention clawed back losses. Argentine stocks abroad fell 7%, and the risk premium on its debt rose to 12.3 percentage points – far beyond sustainable borrowing levels. The rout continued on Wednesday.
Mr Bessent admitted the aid was meant to prop up Mr Milei after his La Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances) party lost decisively in a key election last month. But no terms have been confirmed. With US Republicans angry over Mr Milei’s tax breaks for soy farmers that undercut US producers, markets are asking the obvious: is the Bessent bazooka real, or just for show? It’s obviously a bad look for Mr Trump when the US government is shut down over health funding while $20bn is pledged to prop up a foreign ally. “America first” wasn’t meant to mean furloughed workers and stalled medical trials at home while cash flows abroad. » | Editorial | Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Last month, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, vowed to do “whatever it takes” to support Argentina’s rightwing president, Javier Milei, a key ally of Donald Trump. Markets aren’t convinced. On Tuesday, the peso plunged by more than 6% before a central bank intervention clawed back losses. Argentine stocks abroad fell 7%, and the risk premium on its debt rose to 12.3 percentage points – far beyond sustainable borrowing levels. The rout continued on Wednesday.
Mr Bessent admitted the aid was meant to prop up Mr Milei after his La Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances) party lost decisively in a key election last month. But no terms have been confirmed. With US Republicans angry over Mr Milei’s tax breaks for soy farmers that undercut US producers, markets are asking the obvious: is the Bessent bazooka real, or just for show? It’s obviously a bad look for Mr Trump when the US government is shut down over health funding while $20bn is pledged to prop up a foreign ally. “America first” wasn’t meant to mean furloughed workers and stalled medical trials at home while cash flows abroad. » | Editorial | Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
BREAKING: Milei Hails Trump’s Role in Preventing Global Catastrophe at UN
Bullshit galore is being spoken from the podium of the UN this year, I see! — © Mark Alexander
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Javier Milei's Demise Is Coming
I should like to point out to my followers and visitors that I said from the very start that Javier Milei’s experiment with anarcho-capitalism will fail. It appears that my words are coming true even sooner than I thought possible. Milei’s experiment is ridiculous. Milei's way is no way to run a country! — © Mark Alexander
Thursday, September 04, 2025
Coups de poing, jets de pierres et de bouteilles : échauffourées en Argentine en marge du dernier meeting de Javier Milei
LE FIGARO : Le choix du quartier de Moreno, connu pour son insécurité ambiante, avait fait polémique.
Des bagarres, des jets de pierres et de bouteilles ont été signalés mercredi à proximité du rassemblement organisé en banlieue de Buenos Aires par le président argentin Javier Milei, en pleine polémique sur la sécurité du lieu choisi. Javier Milei a assisté à un meeting de clôture de sa campagne pour les élections législatives de mi-mandat dans la province de Buenos Aires, qui auront lieu dimanche 7 septembre. À la fin de l'événement, certains groupes identifiés par la presse argentine comme des adversaires politiques ont participé à des échauffourées à base de coups de poing, jets de pierres et même de bouteilles. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | jeudi 4 septembre 2025
Des bagarres, des jets de pierres et de bouteilles ont été signalés mercredi à proximité du rassemblement organisé en banlieue de Buenos Aires par le président argentin Javier Milei, en pleine polémique sur la sécurité du lieu choisi. Javier Milei a assisté à un meeting de clôture de sa campagne pour les élections législatives de mi-mandat dans la province de Buenos Aires, qui auront lieu dimanche 7 septembre. À la fin de l'événement, certains groupes identifiés par la presse argentine comme des adversaires politiques ont participé à des échauffourées à base de coups de poing, jets de pierres et même de bouteilles. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | jeudi 4 septembre 2025
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