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Libertarian economist Javier Milei rocked a lot of boats on his way to the Argentinian presidency—and has continued to do so since he took the oath of office in December 2023. Although many American sites call him things like “far-right populist" and "alt-right,” he would perhaps be more aptly described perhaps as "anti-socialist" and ran on a platform that vowed to fight a 200 percent inflation rate, rising poverty, and a divided population in the once prosperous nation. He vowed to take a “chainsaw to public spending” and initiate austerity measures to fight the rot that had taken over Buenos Aires.
He’s had some encouraging results, as we have reported:
He may be onto something...
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It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, therefore, that he delivered a fiery speech at the United Nations Tuesday and blasted their socialist agenda.
In his debut address to the UN general assembly in New York on Tuesday, Milei focused on the 42-page “Pact for the Future” adopted by the UN on Sunday, which includes points promoting climate action, gender equality and regulation of artificial intelligence.
“Argentina will not back any policy that implies the restriction of individual freedoms or trade, nor the violation of the natural rights of individuals,” Milei said. “We invite all nations of the free world to join us, not only in opposing this pact, but in the creation of a new agenda for this noble institution: the freedom agenda.”
He added that the UN’s previous 2030 sustainable development agenda was “a supranational programme of a socialist nature” and accused the UN of becoming “multi-tentacled Leviathan that seeks to decide what each nation state should do and how the citizens of the world should live”.
Whoa. Tell us what you really think, Javier. He also railed against the draconian, fascist COVID responses that many governments, including our own, imposed on their citizens.
He went on to blast the woke agenda of the progressives and the World Economic Forum.
X owner Elon Musk, who has become more outspoken about his political views in recent months (hint: he doesn’t seem to be impressed by progressive Democrats), was excited to meet the controversial leader and indicated in a post that he supports the direction Argentina is heading in.
It remains to be seen whether Milei can fully pull Argentina out of its tailspin. He faces powerful leftist forces in his country but has shown that he doesn’t easily back down. In his U.N. speech, he was not shy about how he saw things as they currently stand:
I’m here to warn you that we are at the end of a cycle.
The collectivism and moral posturing of the woke agenda have collided with reality.
Well said.
