Posted on 04/02/2024 1:26:03 PM PDT by billorites
Forget black-tie dinners or summits at picturesque locales.
The irascible leaders of some of Latin America’s biggest countries are instead taking a decidedly disdainful approach to diplomatic relations. In a region far from global conflicts, presidents here are instead embroiled in the kind of verbal spats commonly found on schoolyards—a war of words playing out on television and via posts on X.
“Ignoramus,” Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, said last week of his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“Fascist,” López Obrador shot back.
And Venezuela’s government—never apprehensive about issuing put-downs—had caustic words for those criticizing strongman Nicolás Maduro, who last month blocked popular opposition figures from running against him in July’s presidential election.
“Shove your opinions wherever you can fit them,” Foreign Minister Yván Gil said, directing his ire at two normally friendly presidents, Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, after they weighed in gingerly against the measure.
Argentina’s Milei, a libertarian economist who’s not one for speaking softly and carrying a big stick, tends to find himself in the middle of most every melee.
After all, he has lashed out at leftist opponents in Argentina as “useless parasites” and “human excrement.” During last year’s presidential campaign, he deployed a chain saw to show how he’d destroy old institutions.
“This is no time for nice words and good manners,” he said.
He has carried that conviction into the presidency and foreign relations—as was on full display in an interview this past week with host Andrés Oppenheimer on CNN Español.
Milei called the authoritarian leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela—countries with no free or fair elections—“truly despicable” and Latin America’s worst presidents. Javier Milei brandishes a chain saw during his successful campaign for the Argentine presidency.
“After them, there are other cases on the same path”
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I think the whole world has been taken over by a bunch of petulant children masquerading as adults. It certainly would explain a lot.
The first rule of “Small-Penises Club”...
Milei: “Socialists are the absolute worst scum on the Earth.”
Keep up the good work!!
It is ironic for MANLO to call anyone fascist.
I think the scientific term is “projection”.
“This is no time for nice words and good manners,”
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