Javier Milei wins Argentina’s presidency

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Javier Milei, a volatile far-right libertarian who has vowed to “exterminate” inflation and take a chainsaw to the state, has been elected president of Argentina, catapulting South America’s second largest economy into an unpredictable and potentially turbulent future.

With more than 99% of votes counted, the Mick Jagger impersonating TV celebrity-turned politician, who is often compared to Donald Trump, had secured 55.69% of the vote compared to 44.3% for his rival, the centre-left finance minister Sergio Massa.

“Today the reconstruction of Argentina begins. Today is a historic night for Argentina,” Milei told jubilant supporters at his campaign headquarters in Buenos Aires, calling his victory a “miracle”.

Milei promised “drastic changes” to tackle Argentina’s “tragic reality” of soaring inflation and widespread poverty. He also sent a message to the international community: “Argentina will return to the place in the world which it should never have lost.”

“Argentinians have chosen another path,” said Massa, who said he had called Milei to congratulate him on his victory and would retire from frontline politics.

“Obviously these are not the results we hoped for and I have spoken to Javier Milei to congratulate him because he’s the president that the majority of Argentines have chosen for the next four years,” added Massa, whose Peronist movement has governed for 16 of the last 20 years.

Pro-Milei activists rejoiced at the triumph of their 53-year-old leader, whom they describe as an economic visionary poised to lead Argentina out of one of the country’s worst economic crises in decades.

“[I’m] happy, happy, happy,” said Francisco Jiménez, a 30-year-old delivery driver and Milei activist from Villa Soldati, a working-class area outside Buenos Aires.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/20/argentina-presidential-election-far-right-libertarian-javier-milei-wins-after-rival-concedes

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Can Javier Milei win in Argentina ?

Javier Milei’s victory in Argentina’s primary election has sent shockwaves through the political system. Markets, international investors and lenders are rattled.

Argentina owes more money to the International Monetary Fund than any other country – $44bn, nearly a third of all the IMF’s loans – so the global financial system has reacted negatively.

But it is Argentinians who are hardest hit.

So, what are Milei’s chances in the October presidential race?

Many voters sent a message that they are tired of the two coalitions that have dominated Argentina’s political scene for years.

The results “reflect people’s fatigue on the political leadership, and the lack of solutions within the spaces that have been in power consecutively,” said Mariel Fornoni, director of Management and Fit, a political consulting firm.

Fornoni said that during the campaigns, the political establishment was “focused on their own group dynamics rather than addressing the actual needs of the people,”

Discontent is widespread in Argentina, which is struggling with annual inflation over 100%, rising poverty and a rapidly depreciating currency, Milei attracted support by calling for the country to replace the peso with the U.S. dollar.

“I’m very happy, we’re looking for a change. We’re tired of living like this,” Franco Lesertessur, 19, said as he celebrated outside Milei’s election headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires. “All the countries that have been dollarized ended up moving forward and stopped having inflation.”

https://time.com/6304552/argentina-milei-presidential-primary/

Peso argentino se hunde tras sorpresivo triunfo de Javier Milei en las primarias

El Banco Central argentino devaluó este lunes un 22 % el peso en el tipo de cambio oficial mayorista en las primeras operaciones, según los operadores de mercado, después del sorpresivo triunfo del ultraderechista Javier Milei en las elecciones primarias celebradas el domingo, un resultado que cayó de forma negativa en los mercados

The Argentine peso has plunged in value after a man who admires Donald Trump won presidential primary elections.

Javier Milei, 52, and his Liberty Advances coalition took about 30% of the total vote, according to official results.

Candidates in the main opposition coalition, United for Change, took 28%, while the governing Union for the Homeland coalition achieved 27%.

Mr Milei, 52, won in 16 of the country’s 24 regions, appealing to voters angry about inflation at 116% and the country’s cost of living crisis.

The presidential election is due to be held in October.

Mr Milei, an economist, wears leather jackets, sings rock songs to his supporters and calls his political opponents “thieves”. He is nicknamed ‘the wig’ due to his unusual hairstyle.

A member of the lower house of Argentina’s Congress since 2021, he has pledged to shatter the political status quo and severely shrink the state.

He says Argentina’s central bank should be abolished and wants to replace the peso with the dollar.

The sale of human organs should be legal, he has said, while he characterises sex education as a ploy to destroy the family.

And while gun ownership is currently severely restricted in Argentina, Mr Milei proposes the “deregulation of the legal market”.

Following his primary win, the central bank allowed the peso to slide almost 20%.

The current government has grappled with triple-digit inflation, poverty reaching 40% and recurring debt crises.

In his closing campaign event last week, held in an arena, Mr Milei railed against the political elite “caste” who he describes as “robbers” taking money out of voters’ pockets.

Speaking after the primary results had been announced, he said: “We are facing the end of the caste model.

“Today we have stood up to say enough to the model of decadence. Today we took the first step for the reconstruction of Argentina.”

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Russian women flee to Argentina to give birth

The South American country is currently experiencing real birth tourism. Russians come to the country to give birth. Namely, so that their children receive Argentine citizenship.

But why? As Eva Pekurova, owner of an agency that helps Russian women give birth abroad, tells the newspaper, Russian citizens do not need a visa to enter Argentina. “Buenos Aires is therefore very much in demand at the moment. It’s the only goal we’re currently working on,” says Pekurova.

In addition, Argentina pursues a liberal migration policy: anyone who is born here automatically gets a passport – including the Russian babies. According to the agency owner, Argentinian citizens can enter 171 countries, including the EU, the United Kingdom and Japan, at short notice and without a visa. In addition, applying for a long-term visa is “not very difficult”.

For comparison: Before the war, Russians were only allowed to enter about 80 countries without a visa. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the task was by no means easier. Numerous European countries have either completely barred Russian citizens from entering the country or made it practically impossible.

According to Georgy Polin, head of the consular department at the Russian Embassy in Argentina, in 2022 between 2,000 and 2,500 Russians moved to Argentina. Among them many pregnant women who wanted to give birth in the country. Polin does not believe that the number of immigrants will decrease. In the future, there will be even more: “In 2023, this number can increase to 10,000.”

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Argentina abortion: Senate approves legalisation in historic decision

A historic day’: Jubilation for pro-choice activists as Argentina passes abortion bill

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Apostasia

Logo of The Campaign for Collective Apostasy in Spain, calling for defection from the Catholic Church.

Why are increasing numbers of Spaniards “apostasising,” or actively removing themselves from the registers of the Catholic Church?

Apostasy : the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief or principle.

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Diego and Argentina

FIFA World Cup 1986 : Diego Maradona celebrates as referee Ali Ben Nasser blows the quarter final (Argentina-England) whistle.

The 1986 World Cup will always be remembered for one man: Diego Armando Maradona. Without doubt, he was the star of the tournament and Argentina’s talisman as they became world champions for the second time. Throughout the tournament he took most of the headlines for a whole host of reasons

Diego woke up before everybody else,” says Jose Luis Brown. “He took the lead in our practice sessions, and when we were all gone, he would stay to practice. He set an example in all respects and that’s why we were proud to have him as captain. We had great players in that side but when you have the best player in the world, and he is going through the best stage of his career, we revolved around him. There is no doubt about that in my mind.”

“Maradona was always the voice of command, the voice that said how things were going to be,” explained Jorge Burruchaga. “He set a daily example for us and gave us his advice.”

With all the criticism from back home and the issues in the camp before the tournament had even kicked off, the team, and Maradona in particular, had a point to prove. “Some of our players had zero approval from fans, journalists and from football leaders,” Brown said. “Bilardo was the only one who trusted us. We had to leave a month early for the World Cup, because rumours had it that the secretary for sport would have Bilardo fired.”

“We trusted, we trusted, but we had not yet had a single positive result to build on,” Maradona stated. “But the truth is we left the dressing room with conviction. We believed we could take on anybody. All Bilardo’s meticulous plans, all his tactics, his obsession with positions, suddenly it all fell into place, and we were putting it into practice against Korea.”

https://www.holdingmidfield.com/bilardismo-argentina-at-the-1986-world-cup/

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El pibe de oro

Diego Maradona in 1973

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La mano de Dios

Argentina v England : quarter finals match of the 1986 World Cup . The goal took place on June 22, 1986, at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico city.

Argentina v England : Maradona’s first goal was put into Peter Shilton’s net by using his hand, which the referee maintained he had not seen. After the game, Maradona was quoted as saying the goal was scored “a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God”. The name stuck.

Four years earlier Argentina and Britain had fought a brief but brutal war over the Falkland Islands, known in Argentina as Las Malvinas, and tensions were still high.

Many Argentinians, including Diego Maradona, felt aggrieved by their country’s defeat, and the deaths of more than 600 Argentinian soldiers, many of them young conscripts.

In the absence of a satisfying resolution, football (as so often happens) became a vehicle for unofficial diplomacy.

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Diego Armando Maradona

Diego Maradona, one of soccer’s greatest players, is dead at 60

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The decline of Argentina’s industry

Abandoned factory.

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Food emergency in Argentina

Almost one-third of the population in the country lives under the poverty line.

Teachers at schools have been complaining that kids come to school hungry and they are not able to provide them snacks as it was in the past. Bakeries are giving away bread they do not sell, with queues of people searching for food becoming longer and longer every day.

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Argentina inflation jumps after peso’s collapse

Alberto Fernández , Argentina’s presidential front runner blames IMF for country’s financial crisis and pledges higher wages and pensions,

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