Argentine chameleon. How far -right eccentrik and Philosemite became president of Argentina

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Javier Miley received 56% of the vote in the election - not a single presidential candidate Argentina in her entire story won with such a high result. Millions of voters were not scared by either his wild species - a disheveled violent hair and a wide open mouth, erupting obscene curses. They were not offended by the fact that in a deeply Catholic country he called the pope of the Roman Francis, the Argentine by origin, "a bitch son preaching communism, and the representative of the devil on earth."

They were not embarrassed that the government press wrote that he was sleeping with his four mastphs, the clones of his deceased beloved dog, and even with his own sister. “Do not climb to my bed,” Miley answered it.

Voters were not outraged by the extremely dismissive attitude of Miles to ethnic minorities. “What a shit it is,” he shouted at one of the election rallies, “all these Indians Huhuy, all this Salta <names of the tribe and the city in the north-west of Argentina-The Insider>. These are all worms, scourges, chopped loafers, we must give them all to Bolivia so that there are no parasite provinces in Argentina, but there are only highly productive areas. ”

Voters were not outraged by Mile's attitude to ethnic minorities. “What is it shit,” he shouted before the election

Argentina citizens, among whom, like everywhere in Latin America, many supporters of left-wing forces, also ignored Miley’s accusations of “a ultra-right neo-Nazi” and “disgusting mini-tram” (as the President of Venezuela Nicholas Maduro called Milea that his election will lead to a “radical legal right. turn in Argentina, "" a new terrible era in its history. " Miley really copied Trump's style in many ways. For example, after a loss in the first round of the elections, he, like his American idol, who was put up from the White House in 2020, accused the authorities of harnessing the voting results.

Javier Miley always admired the Brazilian ex-president Zhir Bolsonar, the tropical clone of Trump, who, like the North American neighbor, completely failed the campaign to combat the pandemia of the coronavirus.

In a word, Argentina was full of reason for concern for the “progressive public”. But the paradox: the vast majority of quite reasonable and moderate right -wing Latin American presidents and politicians, acting and retired, supported Miles's election. Among them is the former president of Colombia Ivan Duke, who condemned the Russian war against Ukraine, former presidents of Mexico Felipe Calderon and Vicenta Fox, former President Chili Sebastian Piner.

Most of the completely moderate Latin American politicians, acting and retired, supported Miles's election

And it was quite unexpected that many eminent cultural figures also found themselves on the side of Mile. Among them is the Peruvian writer, Nobel Laureate in the literature of Mario Vargas Llos. Lesser has always been a tireless fighter not only against the Latin American left -wing, but also against right -wing authoritarianism, and defended freedom and democracy in various countries. In recent years, he invited him to his annual conferences in Madrid, called the "Llosi Department", such famous Russian opposition as Harry Kasparov.

And suddenly - a voice in support of the Argentinean Trump. This is primarily explained by the fact that the majority of the Argentines, including the intellectual elite, were fed up in the throat for many years of dominance in the country of the Kirshnerists - the followers of the peneters with their populism of the left -wing, which led to permanent economic instability.

In the middle of the last century, President Juan Domingo Peron was an extremely popular person in the country, and his second wife Evita became just a national heroine. (The second birth was already given to her in this century Madonna with the song “Do not cry for me, Argentina.”) However, later the wife Kirschner-Nestor and Christina, who changed each other, who changed each other (the latter was the favorite of Vladimir Putin, who during a visit to Buenos Aires played her accordion), as well as the latest president Alberto Fernandez could not stop her Argentina's fall in the peak. And they didn’t even really try. In the current election, inflation in the country amounted to 142% and threatened to leave even higher. As the famous journalist Andres Oppenheimer wrote on the continent, in this country the choice between two candidates - Havier Miley and Minister of Economics Sergio Mass - was a “choice between fear and anger”.

Vladimir Putin and Kristina Kirschner

It is clear that the majority of voters, especially young ones, were attracted not so much by Milea’s program as his eccentric figure. But the economic recipes proposed by him sounded in unison with his image. There were two main recipes - the total dollarization of the economy and the destruction of the obedient in the hyperinflation of the Central Bank of the country, which has promised to burn. However, both goals were up to the inauguration and formation of the government pause.

It is necessary to switch to the American dollar, according to Millei, because the local sand has become a "cubic of ice in sugar." However, in order to make the dollar legal, the approval of the Argentine Congress is required and, possibly, even changes in the Constitution. And the new president has an extremely weak position in the legislative body. His party Libertad Avanza has only seven seats of senators of 72 and 38 out of 257 deputies, and it does not have a single governor or mayor of the big city.

Most local economists believe that the dollarization will only weaken the opportunity to keep a monetary policy in the depth. If this reform is carried out, interest rates will be in the hands of the US Federal Reserve, and the Argentinean economy will be even more susceptible to external shocks associated, for example, with a sharp increase in oil prices. In addition, to make this plan, Miley will need a huge amount of the American currency - from 35 to 50 billion dollars - which Argentina has nowhere to take. The newly elected president himself admits that his shock therapy will take at least two years. “If I said something else, I would lie,” he says.

As the inauguration approaches, Javier Miley definitely distance himself from the “dollar lawyers” Emilio Okampo and Carlos Rodriguez, who stood behind his election statements. Instead, he instructed to lead his economic team Luis Kaputo and Demyano Reida-two Wall Street veterans who held key posts in the government of Maurisio Makri, President Argentina from 2015 to 2019.

At the same time, Miley proposed to his recent rival for the election of Patricia Bullrich the post of Minister of Security, which she occupied under Macri. These steps were completely expected - it was the support of Mile on the final straight line from the Bulrich, which in the first round came the third, largely determined the victory of the current president.

At the same time, the foreign policy of Miley was also sharply corrected. His criticism of the left dictatorial regimes in Venezuela, in Cuba and Nicaragua remained unchanged, because of which the ruling blowing Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo recalled the ambassador from Buenos Aires. However, Miley changed his tone against Brazil and China, with which he promised to break diplomatic relations during the campaign. Brazilian President Luis Inasio Lula da Silva was invited to the inauguration, although it is not yet known whether he accepted this invitation.

Miley changed his tone against Brazil and China, with which during the campaign he promised to break diplomatic relations

As for relations with China, their normalization was taken by adviser to Milea Diana Mondino, who will probably take the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs. She just met with the Chinese ambassador to Buenos Aires, and both were very pleased with this meeting.

Javier Miley and his friend Fatima Flores

Argentine journalist Juan Pablo Cardenal, the author of numerous works on relations with China, says that breaking up the bonds with Beijing would be suicide for his country. The weight that China has in trade and economic relations with Argentina is huge-Beijing acquires a large amount of soy and meat here, as well as a strategically important lithium that Argentina is rich in. In addition, China provides Argentina with multimillion -dollar loans.

Javier Miley made his first foreign visit before the inauguration in the United States. There he met with former President Bill Clinton and Advisor Joe Bayden on National Security Jake Sullivan. Bayden himself would also, apparently, would accept Milea, but at that moment he was in Georgia at the funeral of the wife of ex-president Jimmy Carter Rosalin.

However, on this trip, Miley behaved unusual. The first place that he visited on November 27 was the Montefiore cemetery in the New York district of Kuins. There, he participated in prayer at the place of the rest of the Lubavich Rebbe Menham Mendla Schneerson, whom he thanked for his help in victory in the elections. According to the Jewish telegraph agency, Miley is a Catholic, but his admiration for Judaism and the commitment of the Jewish religion are very deep. He studies with a rabbi in Buenos Aires, quotes excerpts from the Torah at rallies and goes to the stage of the election campaign under the recording of Sofar. He stated that very soon he wants to accept Judaism, although he does not consider the observance of Shabbat compatible with the management of the country.

The President said that he wants to accept Judaism, although he does not consider the observance of Shabbat compatible with the management of the country

How is all this combined with the election image of Mile as the “extreme right” and even “neo -Nazi”?

The Cuban writer Alekho Karpenter has a novel El Recurso del Metodo, whose name was translated into Russian as “Bloods of the Method”, although it is about the resource, about the possibilities of the “method”. This is a novel about the dictator, which is very cruel, but not at all like a typical Latin American Caudillo - not a general with a tin's gaze, but an enlightened ruler who is not alien to philanthropy, understands the painting, loves the opera art, loves to surround himself with an intellectual elite.

The new Argentine President Havier Miley has his own “vicissitudes of the method” and his own resource.

The leader of the Argentine right, he favors Donald Trump. But, unlike Trump, as well as his European ideological allies, he calls Vladimir Putin a dictator. Immediately after his election on November 19, Miley came to a meeting of the parliament with a yellow-blue Ukrainian flag, and a few days later he phoned Vladimir Zelensky and invited him to hold a conference in Argentina to achieve peace in Ukraine.

In the world, many are confident that in March 2024 in Russia Vladimir Putin will overflow himself for the next 12 years, and in America Donald Trump will return to the White House. But neither there nor there are no hopes for any “change in the method”-they will follow the paths set by them, and the rigidity of their power will only intensify. The Argentines did not want to run in the same circle anymore. They dared greatly, choosing an eccentric and completely unknown Havier Mile. Their anger was defeated by fear, although the success of this choice is far from guaranteed.

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