Posted on 11/17/2023 9:18:36 AM PST by NorthernDancer
Argentines head to the polls this Sunday, Nov. 19 for the second round of the most divisive presidential election in decades. The choice couldn’t be more stark—between an establishment Minister of Economy who has presided over an inflation rate that stands at a staggering 140% and a firebrand libertarian that is making international markets jittery. The establishment candidate, Sergio Massa, is part of the Peronist government of President Alberto Fernández. Javier Milei, a relative political outsider and self-described anarcho-capitalist, is the upstart promising to abolish Argentina’s peso and central bank as part of a campaign to radically reduce the Argentine state and its role in the economy.
Polls suggest a surprisingly tight race. If you’re asking how an incumbent economy minister in a country that is in an economic tailspin stands a good chance of becoming President on Sunday, you have not grasped the extent to which Peronists have dominated Argentina’s politics for the past seven decades and the outrageousness of his competitor, Milei.
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A Libertarian president OMG the Sky is Falling...sarc
Bleak? An establishment guy and a guy who wants freedom and honest money? How horrifying.
Nothing rattles markets more than someone who actually takes capitalism seriously.
;-)
(The “markets” are run by kleptocrats who have no interest in allowing a level playing field for their competitors.)
I wish that there was a fiscally conservative candidate running in our upcoming presidential election.
“That personalist, top-down movement has since evolved into the heterogenous political machine of labor unions, crony capitalists, neoliberal reformers, traditional leftists, and a vast network of neighborhood political bosses.”
Sounds like our Rats.
“Bleak”? Why? Are American democrats involved?
Lol, you sure won’t find one in the current GOP.
Milei is a tad bit more complicated than their characterization. :-) He’s an economist. 140% inflation! yowza.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei
“In May 2022, Milei stated: “I will not be apologizing for having a penis. I don’t have to feel ashamed of being a man, white, blond with light blue eyes.”[146]
I could vote for this guy!
Best you are gonna get is a candidate who wants to take a sledgehammer to the leftist power structures in government. DeSantis does ok at it in Florida but by now I would think Trump hates these leftists as much as his base does, if not more so.
Typical MSM propaganda
The fact that a funny, intelligent and verbal-bomb-throwing libertarian has made it a neck-and-neck race against a corrupt, statist, status-quo Peronist is a wonderful thing.
half of Argentinians are sick to death of being made poor by the socialists-fascists printing money to stay in power for the last 70 years.
Rand Paul?
What’s a good neighborhood down there in Buenos Airies? Palermo? I could see moving there for a few months to watch the ‘transition’. I hope he wins.
Think of it as a perennial loser going to Super Bowl contender after 2 years. 49ers did it in the late 70’s. The fun was watching the weekly improvement.
In case there’s any confusion from my post, I very much hope and pray Milei will win. While I would have supported the “far right” candidate against a leftist any day, he was brilliant in his interview with Tucker! I wish I could get a written transcript.
The exception that proves the rule.
Dr Christopher Sabatini is a Guest Lecturer for 2022-2023 at the School of Public Policy. He is a senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, and was formerly a lecturer in discipline in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. ... also on the advisory boards of Harvard University’s LASPAU, the Advisory Committee for Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division and of the Inter-American Foundation. He is also an HFX Fellow at the Halifax International Security Forum.
Get the picture?
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