Trump’s bailout threat may have been key to Milei’s electoral triumph in Argentina

Voters appear to have responded to idea that US president’s ‘generosity’ would evaporate if Milei failed to win “The dollar always talks in the end,” Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal. Javier Milei’s surprise triumph in Argentina’s midterm elections – after Trump bailed him out with 40bn of them … Read more

Argentina goes to polls amid economic crisis and Trump ‘interference’

Poor showing in Sunday’s election would deal hammer blow to country’s radical libertarian president, Javier Milei Argentina’s radical libertarian leader, Javier Milei, is facing a pivotal moment in his presidency with voters set to deliver their verdict on his two-year-old administration on Sunday against a backdrop of political and economic crisis and accusations that his … Read more