Javier Milei

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Wednesday afternoon at the airport in Buenos Aires, Pope Leo XIV wrapped up a four-day visit to Argentina, and at the foot of the plane, Argentina's President Javier Millet, the Chainsaw Libertarian, stood talking with the Pope and broke down in tears.

Per Argentine media, his words were, quote, Thank you for this.

This is your home.

We'll be waiting for you, unquote.

Why does that matter? Because this is the same Millet who, before he was president, called Pope Francis an imbecile who promotes communism.

He apologized, he met Francis at the Vatican, and he wept at Francis' funeral last year.

Now a new pope came to his country, and local authorities say about two and a half million people filled Buenos Aires for Monday's mass, and provincial officials say more than three million came to Lujan on Wednesday.

I'm sorry, please.

No, no. It's important to remember that Argentina has changed drastically under Millet.

And the population is in dire straits economically.

And access to money, money in Argentina has always been, well, not always, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was great, great gold reserves.

Any chance that Brazil might one day become a leader in Latin America, South America? Yes.

there was a time when Lula seemed to be wanting Argentina to join BRICS, and then Millet won the election, and that idea was basically shelved.

But there's some talk that Millet might lose the elections next year, and whether that means that things are going to reverse, I don't know.

But have you any thoughts about this? Will Brazil ever play a more active role in Latin America, because I'm going to say again, this is simply my own perspective as somebody who is outside Latin America.

There's ever going to be a moment where Latin America really

together? I'd like it to be something that is fresher than that, to be honest.

I mean, I think shackling yourself to, you know, one leader around the world, you know, like, oh, Millais is wonderful.

Well, hang on a minute.

Now he's trying to invade the Falkland Islands.

El pontífice, de setenta y un años, había empezado su gira en Uruguay el viernes de la semana pasada y llegó a la Argentina el domingo por la tarde.

En Buenos Aires lo recibió el presidente Javier Milei.

Su primer discurso incluyó críticas al mandatario, como cuando dijo que hay que cuidar la palabra en la actividad pública, hablar sin ofender.

El papa también subrayó la importancia de fortalecer las universidades, cuyo presupuesto quiere recortar Milei.

So there you go.

What I found in researching specifically Peronism is how much Malay was like a liberal darling to, that was like kind of i mean just like you can listen to different podcasts or anything like you have the econ you have the economists and a bunch of other like publications like that talking about like how these free market ideals are really going to push argentina in the right direction and a lot of them are very much like celebrating the downfall of peronism it definitely feels like it's like this is one of the last bastions of this 20th century social movement i wouldn't socialist it's hard to say but social movement that is like we should be relegating to the 20th century and this is very much like in a similar way like lakud's defeat of like labor zionism like yeah there's a lot of that where it's just like actually you know

it's a perfect parallel to the downfall of kamalism in turkia oh yeah like atatürk's people i've been like in the rise of erdogan's like soft islamist faction and erdoganism like like kirchner because also the the the kamalists are all over the place ideologically they were just you know militant secularists but by that we don't mean they were militant atheists they just want islamists but like They were also throwing spaghetti against the wall ideologically.

And they also had a similar...

It's one thing we always talk about the blame of the collective German people and they were complicit in a whole lot of shit.

However, the Nazis never had majority a majority government they just banned elections in crisis mode which to be fair Peron never did I mean like he was it does seem like in all of his elections he was legitimately elected now he also legitimately lost a lot yeah so that's interesting But I think until

Malay, it was like 10 out of the 14 leaders were Peronist or self-declared Peronist or something.

So they were a fairly successful electoral movement even after Peron.

But many European officials have recently warned of an escalating Russian campaign of hybrid warfare aimed at destabilising and intimidating Ukraine's Western allies.

And finally to Argentina, where Pope Leo has delivered a diplomatic but pointed review of President Javier Millet's austerity measures, saying economic growth must benefit all people, including the poor.

Speaking in Buenos Aires, the pontiff also said leaders should be careful with their words and know the limits of their power.

It's the first papal visit to Argentina in almost 40 years, which is hard to believe, and forms part of the Pope's 12-day tour of Latin America.

And all this, Abby, just three weeks after he underwent surgery

for lung cancer.

Millet has been a particularly outspoken critic of Leo's predecessor, the Argentinian-born Pope Francis, labelling him both a communist and a representative of the evil one on earth, although he's since softened his stance.

So, Abby, I'm not sure if you've seen, but the past day, the Finnish embassy in Canberra posted a PSA online just to say that the embassy is closed for the day, just to let everyone know, and they will be back.

But many European officials have recently warned of an escalating Russian campaign of hybrid warfare aimed at destabilising and intimidating Ukraine's Western allies.

And finally to Argentina, where Pope Leo has delivered a diplomatic but pointed rebuke of President Javier Millet's austerity measures, saying economic growth must benefit all people, including the poor.

Speaking in Buenos Aires, the pontiff also said leaders should be careful with their words and know the limits of their power.

It's the first papal visit to Argentina in almost 40 years, which is hard to believe, and forms part of the Pope's 12-day tour of Latin America.

And all this, Abby, just three weeks after he underwent surgery for

lung cancer.

Millet has been a particularly outspoken critic of Leo's predecessor, the Argentinian-born Pope Francis, labelling him both a communist and a representative of the evil one on earth, although he's since softened his stance.

So, Abby, I'm not sure if you've seen, but the past day, the Finnish embassy in Canberra posted a PSA online just to say that the embassy is closed for the day, just to let everyone know, and they will be back.