El Loco

Javier Milei means to remake Argentina. With a chainsaw if need be.

Since taking office in December, Argentine President Javier Milei has been making the rounds among right-wing admirers. Here, he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, on Feb. 24.

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Argentina’s new president is a libertarian populist and, by his own account, an anarcho-capitalist. To tackle his county’s deep economic troubles, Javier Milei wants to dismantle state institutions, implement severe austerity measures and strip protections for workers. He also wants to outlaw abortion. But in a country with a strong tradition of organized labor and women’s movements, so far he has sown mainly chaos. We speak with a journalist and a sociologist who say Milei’s methods are madness.

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