#Mr. Milei of Argentina

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If War is a Crime Against Humanity ~ Pope Francis, the True Criminals are Not Protestors Camping out in Tents – Cast as Antisemitic or Pro-Palestinian – but the Unethical Actors in the Politics of Economics

My initial intent was to convey my shock after reading several New York Times articles in which mainstream media portrays a solid alignment with, rather than query of, the educational institutions’ and US government’s stance on the war in Gaza. Ok, not so surprising, when the media owns the government. In the clearly economic arena of politics, peaceful protestors are cast as the bad guys,…

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Just heard a MASSIVE jet sound over my house, and I know it's not a commercial one because you can check in Flightradar, so it's likely the airforce, the thing is Argentina has like, 12 jets, so it's strange they're over my house right now what are they doing

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Argentine academics flee austerity drive a year into Milei’s rule

Protests in Buenos Aires against university cuts in April were so large that some surveys reported that up to a quarter of the city’s population had claimed to have taken part. The salaries of academics have lost up to 50 per cent of their real-terms value amid the spiralling inflation that Mr Milei was elected to bring down, and his “shock” dose of austerity has squeezed public universities’ ability to compensate staff for this, with many fearing that the thousands of scholars who have left their roles since the election are just the start of a much larger exodus. Junior academics have been hit hardest, according to Valeria Levi, deputy dean of the School of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. The average monthly salary for a teaching assistant position is about $620 (£480), and the pay freeze has left many unable to cover basic expenses such as rent and food, she said. “Public universities are experiencing a massive loss of human resources,” said Dr Levi. “People are resigning with sadness because, despite their passion for their work, they simply cannot survive on such low salaries. “At my institution, we have already lost close to 10 per cent of our staff. If this situation persists, we will not have enough instructors to teach in the coming years.” [...] Mr Milei has not, however, totally dialled down the public attacks, recently saying “so-called scientists and intellectuals believe that having an academic degree makes them superior beings”. “If they think their research is so valuable, I invite them to go out into the market like any ordinary person, publish a book and see if people are interested, instead of cowardly hiding behind the coercive power of the state,” he told a right-wing conference. “Long term, I think this will be very destructive for the Argentine scientific community, and I already see a big exodus in the works. Anyone that can leave is leaving. This, sadly, is not the first time in Argentine history,” said Matías Vernengo, professor of economics at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and a former senior research manager at the Central Bank of Argentina.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Far-right advances in Europe demand LatAm attention

The far-right made significant gains in the European Parliament elections, which took place this June. Radical conservative parties, whose agendas often include nationalist rhetoric and anti-immigration policies, will now occupy at least 130 out of the 720 seats in the legislative body. 

But what does that mean for Latin America? 

It is worth remembering that a similar shift to the right was seen in countries such as El Salvador, Brazil (between 2019 and 2022), and Argentina, whose incumbent president, libertarian Javier Milei, expects to reap benefits from the EU election results. 

On June 10, Mr. Milei called the results “good news,” saying the electoral outcome represented a “tremendous advance of the new right-wings in Europe.” 

However, the results in Europe can mean the opposite to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil.

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President Javier Milei on Wednesday sacked Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino after the country voted at the UN in favor of lifting the six-decade US embargo on Cuba, the presidency said.

"The new foreign minister of Argentina is Mr. Gerardo Werthein," presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni wrote on X, hours after Argentina joined 186 other UN members who voted in favor of lifting the embargo imposed on communist-run Cuba since 1962.

Werthein was previously Argentina's ambassador to the United States.

Only two countries, the United States and Israel, both allies of Milei, voted against Wednesday's resolution, while one country, Moldova, abstained.

Moments after Mondino's sacking was announced, Milei retweeted a post by a lawmaker who said she was "proud of a government that does not support nor is an accomplice to dictators. Viva #CubaLibre."

Argentina has traditionally voted against the embargo on Cuba.

Local media quoted foreign ministry sources as saying that while it was awkward diplomatically for Argentina to have opposed the US and Israel, the votes of Cuba and its allies would be needed in any future resolutions on Argentina's claim of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, a British territory.

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Latin America’s New Hard Right: Bukele, Milei, Kast And Bolsonaro! Crime, Abortion and Socialism, Not Immigration, Are The Issues That Rile Them

— April 1st 2024| Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱

A montage of right-wing Latin American leaders on a red and blue background with Donald Trump throwing maga hats at them. Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy

“Mr president!” Javier Milei could barely contain himself when he met Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) near Washington in February. The pair embraced and exchanged slogans, with Mr Trump intoning “Make Argentina Great Again” several times and Argentina’s new President yipping “Viva la Libertad, Carajo” (“Long Live Freedom, Dammit”) in response.

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Popular Autocratic President, had already addressed the conference. “They say globalism comes to die at CPAC,” he told enraptured Republicans. “I’m here to tell you that in El Salvador, it’s already dead.” Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Hard-Right Former President, was a star guest in 2023. He, like Mr Trump, claimed without evidence that his bid for a second term was thwarted by fraud. His supporters also attempted an insurrection.

These scenes suggest a seamless international alliance between Mr Trump and the leaders of Latin America’s hard right. Its members also include José Antonio Kast of Chile, who has spoken at cpac in the past too. This new right basks in Mr Trump’s influence. It has turned away from a more consensual form of conservative politics in favour of an aggressive pursuit of culture war.

Its ascent began with the surprise victory of Mr Bolsonaro in Brazil in 2018, followed by that of Mr Bukele in 2019. In Chile Mr Kast, the founder of a new hard-right Republican Party, got 44% of the vote in a presidential run-off in 2021 and his party won an election for a constitutional council in 2023. Mr Milei won his own surprise victory in November. Would-be leaders of the radical right jostle in the Politics of Peru and Colombia.

Unlike its older European and North American equivalents, the Latin American hard right does not have roots in the fertile soil of public anxiety about uncontrolled immigration (although this has become an issue recently because of the arrival of millions of Venezuelans fleeing their country’s rotten dictatorship).

The new group shares three hallmarks. The first is fierce opposition to abortion, and gay and women’s rights. “What unites them is an affirmation of traditional social hierarchies,” as Lindsay Mayka and Amy Erica Smith, two academics, put it. The second hallmark is a tough line on crime and citizens’ security. And the third is uncompromising opposition to social democracy, let alone communism, which leads some to want a smaller state.

There were common factors in their ascents, too. They were helped by a sense of crisis—about corruption and economic stagnation in Brazil and Argentina, gang violence in El Salvador and the sometimes violent “social explosion” in Chile.

Cousins In Arms

But each leader has adopted a different mix of these ideological elements. The hard right in Latin America are “cousins, not brothers”, says Cristóbal Rovira of the Catholic University of Chile. “They are similar but not identical.”

Mr Bolsonaro’s constituencies were evangelicals, to whom he appealed with his defence of the traditional family, and the authoritarian right in the form of the army, the police and farmers worried about land invasions and rural crime. But he was lukewarm about the free market and fiscal rigour. Mr Bukele made security the cornerstone of his first presidential term, overcoming criminal gangs by locking up more than 74,000 of El Salvador’s 6.4 Million Citizens. His economic policy is less clear and, despite his claim at CPAC, is not self-evidently “anti-globalist”.

Mr Milei was elected for his pledge to pull Argentina out of prolonged stagflation and to cut down what he brands as a corrupt political “caste”. A self-described “anarcho-capitalist”, he is a fan of the Austrian school of free-market economics. Unlike Mr Trump, he is neither an economic nationalist nor protectionist on trade. He has only recently adopted his peers’ stance on moral issues. His government supports a bill to overturn Argentina’s abortion law, and says it will eliminate gender-conscious language from public administration. Mr Bukele followed suit.

Mr Kast attempted to put conservative morality in the constitutional draft his party championed, which was one reason why it was rejected in a plebiscite. He wants tough policies on security and against immigration. “We should close the borders and build a trench,” he says. He wants to “shrink the state and lower the tax burden”. Whereas Mr Bolsonaro is a climate-change sceptic and anti-vaxxer, Mr Kast is not.

Democracy For Thee, Not For Me

Right-wing populists also have differing attitudes to democracy. With his attempt to subvert the election result, for which he is under police investigation, Mr Bolsonaro showed that he was not a democrat. Mr Bukele is contemptuous of checks and balances. His success at slashing the murder rate made him hugely popular, allowing him to brush aside constitutional term limits and win a second term in February.

Mr Milei’s “disdain for democratic institutions is clear”, says Carlos Malamud, An Argentine Historian, citing Mr Milei’s break with convention by giving his inauguration speech to a crowd of supporters, rather than to Congress. But, Mr Malamud adds, Mr Milei may yet learn that he needs to include the parliament in government.

“I’m a democrat,” insists Mr Kast, and his opponents agree. “On security and shrinking the state, we share views with Bolsonaro,” he says. “But that doesn’t mean that we are the same as Milei or Bolsonaro or Bukele.” As Mr Kast notes, policy choices are shaped in each country by very different circumstances.

So are the prospects of the various leaders. Mr Bukele is by far the most successful, with would-be imitators across the region and no obvious obstacles to his remaining in power indefinitely. In contrast, Mr Bolsonaro’s active political career may well be over. The electoral court has barred him as a candidate until 2030 (when he will be 75) for disparaging the voting system at a meeting with foreign ambassadors. He may be jailed for his apparent attempt to organise a military coup against his electoral defeat; he denies this and claims he is a victim of political persecution.

Mr Milei’s future is up for grabs. Succeed in taming inflation, and he could emerge strengthened from a midterm election in 2025. But if he refuses to compromise with Congress and provincial governors, he may be in trouble before then. In Chile, Mr Kast seemed to overplay his hand with the constitutional draft. The election in 2025 could see the centre-right take power. One influential figure of that persuasion argues that Mr Kast is unable to represent the diversity of modern Chile.

Ultimately, the group is bound by an international network built around common political discourse and cultural references. Mr Kast chairs the Political Network for Values, an outfit previously led by an ally of Viktor Orban, Hungary’s Populist Leader. Vox, Spain’s hard-right party, organises the Foro de Madrid, a network of like-minded politicians mainly from what it calls the “Iberosphere” in Latin America.

These gatherings offer a chance to share experiences and sometimes a bit more. Mr Bukele has advisers from Venezuela’s exiled opposition. Mr Trump’s activists have shown up at Latin American elections. Recently, Mr Bolsonaro took refuge in the Hungarian embassy in Brasília for two nights when he feared arrest.

But there are no signs of central direction or co-ordination. The right in Latin America has long claimed that the Foro de São Paulo, a get-together of Latin American left-wingers, is a highly organised conspiracy. All the evidence is that it is a loose friendship network. That seems to be true of its right-wing peer, too. ■

— This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "The Anti-communist International"

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Rishi Sunak's spokesman has said there is "no doubt" the Falkland Islands are British after Argentina's new president said it was time to "get them back".

Javier Milei, elected as Argentina's president on Sunday, said Buenos Aires had "non-negotiable sovereignty" over the islands.

And he vowed to get the islands back through "diplomatic channels".

But the UK prime minister's spokesman said the issue of sovereignty "was settled decisively some time ago".

Argentina has long claimed sovereignty over the islands, a British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean. The two countries fought a war over the issue, after Argentine forces invaded the islands in 1982.

The Falklands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas, are about 8,000 miles from the UK and about 300 miles from mainland Argentina.

In a 2013 referendum, the people of the Falkland Islands voted 99.8% in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory.

Rishi Sunak's official spokesman said on Tuesday that the British government would continue to "proactively defend the Falkland Islanders right to self-determination".

'Malvinas are Argentine'

Earlier this year, Argentina pulled out of a co-operation deal signed in 2016 and has been pushing for talks on sovereignty.

In the agreement, Argentina and the UK pledged to "improve co-operation on South Atlantic issues of mutual interests".

Mr Milei said during a TV election debate: "What do I propose? Argentina's sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands is non-negotiable. The Malvinas are Argentine.

"Now we have to see how we are going to get them back. It is clear that the war option is not a solution.

"We had a war - that we lost - and now we have to make every effort to recover the islands through diplomatic channels."

In a newspaper interview with La Nacion, a daily newspaper in Argentina, he proposed that the UK hand over the Falklands to his South American country in a similar way to how Hong Kong was given back over to Chinese rule in 1997.

The populist politician, who has described himself as an anarcho-capitalist and is said to have lauded Margaret Thatcher - the British prime minister during the Falklands conflict - said the views of those living on the islands "cannot be ignored".

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said it is "non-negotiable and undeniable" that the Falkland Islands are British.

In a social media post he said: "99.8% of islanders voted to remain British and we will always defend their right to self-determination and the UK's sovereignty."

In his tweets, Mr Shapps rejected any negotiation on the future of the Falklands, pointing out that the Royal Navy had redeployed HMS Forth to "protect the islands" in the southern hemisphere.

It follows a nine-month stint by HMS Medway patrolling the islands waters.

oh girl...

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Guns, drugs and children (NYT) If I drew you a graph that showed the death rate among American kids, you would see a backward check mark: Fewer kids died over the last several decades, thanks to everything from leukemia drugs to bicycle helmets. Then, suddenly, came a reversal. From 2019 to 2021, the child death rate rose more steeply than it had in at least half a century. It stayed high after that. During the pandemic, the mortality rate among children and adolescents shot up by more than 10 percent in a single year. These children weren’t felled by some spreading contagion; their deaths were sudden and “almost always preventable,” as Dr. Coleen Cunningham, the pediatrician in chief at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, puts it. Deadly car accidents among tweens and teens climbed nearly 16 percent. Murders went up 39 percent. Fatal overdoses more than doubled. But guns were at the center of it all, replacing car crashes as the leading killer of kids. Gun deaths alone accounted for almost half of the increase in young people. They are now equivalent to 52 school buses of children crashing each year. Of course, how children die is not the same as why, and answering the latter question is difficult.

Asheville Gets Drinkable Tap Water Back, 53 Days After Hurricane Helene (NYT) Jeff Watts, 57, barely followed the incremental updates on his city’s water distribution system after Hurricane Helene knocked it offline in September. All he knew was that life in Asheville, N.C., had become more difficult and dirty. But on Monday, he listened to every word of a voice mail message from the city informing him that, for the first time in 53 days, the water was clean enough to drink, a significant breakthrough for a place that has been dragged down by grief and financial hardship. Mr. Watts, a landscaper who has had little work since the storm devastated western North Carolina, decided to have a beer at the Rankin Vault Lounge on Monday afternoon, but it was not quite celebratory. His home was still destroyed, most of his belongings were gone and he would continue to live in a tiny hotel room indefinitely. “I got water,” he said, “but I have nothing else.” The announcement from Asheville officials on Monday that the boil water advisory had been lifted brought a sense of relief to residents who have spent the past two months finding ways to live without drinkable tap water. But while it felt like a promising step on the city’s path to recovery, there was still anxiety about whether Asheville could rebound from the worst natural disaster to ever strike the state.

As the glaciers of South America retreat, the supply of freshwater is dwindling (NYT) Dionisia Moreno, a 70-year-old Indigenous farmer, still remembers when Shallap River, nearly 13,000 feet up in the Cordillera Blanca, brought crystal clear water brimming with trout to her village, Jancu. “People and animals alike could drink the water without suffering,” she said. “Now the water is red. No one can drink it.” At a glance the river looks like a casualty of mining pollution; Peru is a major producer of copper, silver and gold, and the waters near abandoned mines often run a shade of rust. But the culprit is climate change. The Cordillera Blanca mountain range harbors the world’s largest concentration of tropical glaciers, which are particularly sensitive to rising temperatures and are a major source of freshwater in Peru. For thousands of years, the glaciers were replenished with ice in the winter. But they have shrunk by more than 40 percent since 1968, uncovering rocks that, when exposed to the elements, can trigger chemical reactions that leach toxic metals into the water and turn it acidic. Alipia Cruz draws water from their well in Cacapaqui village and says that the spring water tastes sour and members of her family suffer from stomach aches.

Argentina’s Milei pivots to pragmatism (AP) Last year, then-presidential candidate Javier Milei declared Argentina would not “make deals with communists” in China or Brazil, calling their leaders “murderers” and “thieves” in a bid to channel the populist energies of Donald Trump and other global far-right icons into a winning political message. But Tuesday, President Milei found himself at the Group of 20 summit in Rio de Janeiro shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping and vowing to boost trade with the Asian powerhouse. “Argentina is not a great power and it is in a very difficult situation economically,” said Roberto Goulart Menezes, a professor of international relations at the University of Brasilia.

Ukraine Fired U.S.-Made Missiles Into Russia for First Time, Officials Say (NYT) Ukraine’s military used American-made ballistic missiles on Tuesday to strike into Russia for the first time, according to senior U.S. and Ukrainian officials, just days after President Biden gave permission to do so in a major shift of American policy. The pre-dawn attack struck an ammunition depot in the Bryansk region of southwestern Russia, Ukrainian officials said. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that Kyiv used six ballistic missiles known as ATACMS, for Army Tactical Missile System. The attack came on the same day President Vladimir V. Putin lowered Russia’s threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, a long-planned move whose timing appeared aimed at showing the Kremlin could respond aggressively to Ukraine using American missiles to strike Russian territory.

Greek workers hold general strike over high cost of living and call for collective wage agreements (AP) Greek public and private sector workers walked off the job Wednesday in a 24-hour general strike that is disrupting services across the country, with public transport in the capital suspended for several hours and ferries that connect the islands to the mainland tied up in port. Medical staff at state-run hospitals and teachers are also participating in the strike, called by labor unions to protest the high cost of living and demand collective wage agreements that were scaled back during Greece’s nearly decade-long financial crisis that began in 2010. Unions have criticized the center-right government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for failing to tackle inflation and housing policies, which have eroded workers’ living standards.

Turkish strikes in Syria cut water to one million people (BBC) Turkish air strikes in drought-struck north-east Syria have cut off access to electricity and water for more than a million people, in what experts say may be a violation of international law. Turkey carried out more than 100 attacks between October 2019 and January 2024 on oil fields, gas facilities and power stations in the Kurdish-held Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), according to data collated by the BBC World Service. The attacks have added to the humanitarian crisis in a region reeling from a years-long civil war and four years of extreme drought. Water had already been scarce, but attacks on electricity infrastructure in October last year shut off power to the region’s main water station, in Alouk, and it has not been working since. More than a million people in the Hassakeh province who once got their water from Alouk now rely on deliveries of water pumped from around 12 miles (20km) away. “Water is more precious than gold here,” said Ahmad al-Ahmed, a tanker driver. “People need more water. All they want is for you to give them water.”

Amid mass repression, glimmers of resistance in Hong Kong (Washington Post) As the court cleared out after the sentencing of dozens of Hong Kong’s most prominent activists and pro-democracy icons late Tuesday morning, a lone woman stood up on a flight on low steps and held up a sign. “The righteous shall live, the evil shall perish,” it read in black writing. She could only hold it up for a few moments before armed police surrounded her and bundled her into a police van. The woman, Elsa Wu, is the adoptive mother of one of the defendants, social worker Hendrick Lui. Lui had been sentenced to four years and three months in prison. As police officers tried to shut the van and obscure her from those filming, she cried and shouted, asking why her son, a “good person,” had to go to prison. “Tell me why!” she demanded. Hong Kong police arrested Wu on suspicion of “disorderly conduct in public,” according to local media, and granted her bail. The Washington Post was unable to contact her directly on Wednesday and the Hong Kong police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the videos of Wu, which were quickly circulated across social media in Hong Kong, served as a reminder: Sparks of resistance and acts of bravery continue to flare up in the now-suppressed territory, despite a years-long campaign to snuff out any anti-government sentiment and remake the city in Beijing’s image.

Israel’s war on Hezbollah takes terrible toll on Lebanon’s children (Washington Post) Scattered throughout the wrecked apartment was evidence of how particularly vulnerable children are to the effects of explosive weapons. A day and a half after Israel fired the missile through the building, the bodies of the adults had long since been retrieved and identified. Pieces of the children, though, were still being found everywhere. Israel’s war against Hezbollah is exacting a terrible toll on Lebanon, where the militant group is based. More than a quarter of the dead registered by Lebanon’s Health Ministry have been women or children. At least 231 children have been killed and 1,330 injured, according to the ministry. Over the past three weeks, an average of 3.5 children have been killed and 9.5 wounded per day, according to the Health Ministry. In the past two months, at least 400,000 children have been displaced from their homes, the U.N. children’s agency estimates. For a country already brutalized by years of economic crisis, the war has brought new misery: Lives forever changed by airstrikes. Daily survival made more challenging. A population anxious about what comes next.

The war in Gaza has left many with horrific wounds (NYT) Amputations. Disfiguration. Brain damage. Their injuries are life-changing. Ruba Abu Jibba lost an eye during shelling as her family was fleeing Israeli tanks in Gaza, she says. She and some other badly wounded Gazans survived a war that has killed tens of thousands. They made it out for medical treatment in Qatar, where we photographed and interviewed them. They are alive—even if some are not sure they still want to be. Mahmoud Ajjour’s family fled their home after Israeli shells began falling, his mother, Noor Ajjour, says. The going was slow, and the boy went back to urge everyone on. When an explosion ripped off one hand and mangled the other, his pleas changed. He asked to be left behind, saying: “I am going to die.” Abdullah al-Haj, a photographer, lost both legs in an airstrike as he was taking pictures of two fishermen emerging from the sea with their catch. At first, when the war began between Israel and Hamas, he refused to pick up his camera. “I don’t like pictures of destruction,” he says. “I usually take pictures of the beauty and love in Gaza.”

How to bridge our political divide? A pastor’s answer: Do unto others (NPR) Campaign lawn signs rarely bring people together from opposite sides of the political fence. But in the lead up to Election Day, some purple-colored ones in this Pittsburgh suburb did just that. The signs are an attempt to transcend the nation’s bitter divisions. Instead of touting a candidate, they promoted a value: the Bible’s Golden Rule. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” the signs read. Christ United Methodist Church here in Bethel Park distributed the lawn signs as part of what Pastor Chris Morgan calls a movement for kindness, built around a handful of sermons as well as hundreds of purple “Do Unto Others” T-shirts. “We wanted to remind our people that no matter what happened, whether Trump won or Harris won, our job as followers of Christ is to remember that God’s bigger than all of this,” says Morgan, who is 49. “Our call as followers of Christ is to show people kindness and respect and love and humility and compassion, no matter what.”

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Venezuela’s Maduro declared winner of presidential election

The incumbent president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, won 51.2 per cent of the vote after 80 per cent of the protocols were processed. This will be the third six-year term for the president in office, Venezuelan media reported.

Authorities said opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez had 44 per cent of the vote, although the opposition earlier said it had “reasons to celebrate” and asked supporters to keep watching the vote count.

Venezuela’s foreign ministry accused nine Latin American countries of conducting an “operation to interfere in the electoral process.” According to the ministry’s press release, the governments of Argentina, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay are “trying to distort the peaceful expression of the will.”

This will be the third presidential term for Nicolas Maduro. He first took office as president on April 19, 2013. Argentine President Javier Milei has already said he will not recognise Mr Maduro’s victory. Meanwhile, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez congratulated the Venezuelan president on his re-election.

Mr. Maduro has been in office as president of the state since 2013. The inauguration of Venezuela’s chief executive will take place on January 10, 2025, and his term of office will be six years.

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Elon’s three Musk-eteers

A must-must read on poliphoon.com: "Elon's three Musk-eteers". Elon Musk loves right-wing leaders and three among them deserve special mention. The reasons are not too far to seek. https://poliphoon.com/elons-three-musk-eteers/

Argentina is an economic mess down south in Latin America. Yet the inflation-ravaged nation is right at the top of Elon Musk’s list of love-worthy nations. The Tesla founder views president Javier Milei as a politician who holds great commercial utility for his business. More than that, both Mr Musk and Mr Milei see their minds converging when it comes to what they have to offer each other. This…

[elbiotipo]

hello mr fernando my friend i hate to remind you of the man more than you already are but on javier's fake news instagram post he has '14. milei hate the quartet' what does this mean? is it slang for the family? is it a string quartet? or is it a sex thing

algún cordobés que quiera educarlo al anon

Just kidding, I'll do my best... Cuarteto is a music genre from Argentina, but more specifically from Córdoba province where it is a part of local identity. It began as a fusion of tarantela and other Italian and Spanish rhytms, more modern examples have influences from cumbia and rock. Despite the name, it's not defined by being a quartet, but rather by it's fast paced style and characteristic dancing, it is a music MADE for dancing and partying.

There are a lot of examples, but I'll just leave you with the classic one; Rodrigo "El Potro"

so yes, it is a sex thing

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Welch Überraschung (nicht ❗️) 🤬

#Reich = #Rechts wenns nützt 🤬

#ElonMusk hat X, seine Social-Media-Plattform, wiederholt benutzt, um #rechte #Staatsoberhäupter, einschließlich argentinischer Javier Milei und indischer Narendra Modi, stimmlich zu #unterstützen. Im #Gegenzug hat er von ihnen #Firmenvorteile für seine lukrativsten Geschäfte #Tesla und #SpaceX gewonnen, wie eine Untersuchung der New York Times ergab.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil runs neighbors' embassies in Venezuela after expulsions

President Javier Milei of Argentina on Thursday thanked the Brazilian government for taking over administration of his country’s embassy in Caracas, after the government of Venezuela expelled its diplomats for questioning the re-election of Nicolás Maduro.

“I thank Brazil’s willingness to take over the custody of the Argentinian Embassy in Venezuela. We also appreciate the temporary representation of the interests of the Argentinian Republic and its citizens there,” Mr. Milei wrote on social media.

“Today, Argentinian diplomatic personnel had to leave Venezuela in retaliation from dictator Maduro for our condemnation of the fraud perpetrated on Sunday,” he added.

On Monday, Venezuela announced the expulsion of the diplomatic personnel of seven Latin American nations that expressed concerns about the weekend’s election: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay.

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[businesspr]

Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit.

Mr. Musk has built a constellation of like-minded heads of state — including Argentina’s Javier Milei and India’s Narendra Modi — to push his own politics and expand his business empire. source https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/technology/elon-musk-world-leaders.html