Argentina: Anti-Communist Populist Javier Milei Tops Presidential Primary Vote
Argentine libertarian economist Javier Milei won first place in Sunday’s nationwide presidential primary with 30 percent of the votes.
Argentine libertarian economist Javier Milei won first place in Sunday’s nationwide presidential primary with 30 percent of the votes.
Argentine libertarian economist Javier Milei formally debuted his political coalition’s campaign platform on Tuesday, a formal requirement for him to run in the October 2023 presidential elections.
Alberto Fernández, the president of Argentina, announced this weekend that he would not be a candidate in the 2023 presidential election.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro canceled his trip to Argentina on Monday after facing severe backlash from Argentine opposition politicians and members of the Venezuelan diaspora there, who fled the nation’s collapse under Maduro’s socialist regime.
A man identified as 35-year-old Fernando Andres Sabag Montiel was arrested late Thursday evening after apparently attempting to assassinate the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Venezuelan polling firm Meganálisis found in a study published this week that nearly 80 percent of the country believe that members of opposition movements against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro are either “sellouts” or themselves chavistas, a catastrophic lack in trust that makes change in the country nearly impossible.
Argentina’s socialist Peronist coalition received a pummeling at the polls on Sunday, losing the Senate for the first time since 1983 and suffering major defeats in Buenos Aires, the capital and largest city.