Buenos Aires, Argentina – Buenos Aires, Argentina (AP) – Europe Promised retaliation. Porcelain He drew his own rates. Mexico He hastened to swell the blow. But While the leaders of the world twisted their hands About President Donald Trump’s Radical tariffs advertisement In the imports of the USA, the president of the right of Argentina was lush, fisted in the Trump Mar-Alago Club.
As part of his enthusiastic dissemination to Trump, the Argentine president, Javier Milei, flew from one of the southernmost nations on the planet to Palm Beach for 24 hours to receive an award in honor of his libertarian agenda and, he expected, to talk with Trump, who was also scheduled to attend the “Patriot American Patriot” gala of the right.
“Make Argentina great again!” Milei sprinkles from the dance lounge stage in Mar-a-Lago on Thursday night.
It would have been the Fourth meeting face to face among leaders from Trump’s electoral victory last November as President Milei, who has imposed a Radical austerity program to fix the long economy with Argentine problemsIt is offered as one of Trump’s strongest allies in the War of Global Culture against the “Wake” left.
It remains to be seen if Milei’s firm alliance with Trump can help Argentina affected by the crisis, analysts say.
“It has a special relationship with Trump that has been good for him politically, but he needs to translate that in being good for the country economically,” said Marcelo J. García, director of the Americas of the Geopolitical Risk Consultant based in New York, Horizon Engage. “He hasn’t managed to do that yet.”
Earl this year, Milei took Argentina from the World Health Organization After the United States announced its own departure.
Threatened to leave Paris’s climate agreement after Trump did. He Prohibited gender change treatments for minors After Trump prohibited transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports. He even promoted a cryptocurrency token Becoming echo of the memecoin of $ Trump – in Great political cost.
Criticize against socialism and feminism in speech events worldwide – more recently, Conservative Political Action ConferenceWhere he endowed Elon Musk A Giant Chain Sierra Modeling after the electric tool he exercised during his 2023 campaign: Milei has become a kind of Maga celebrity.
While the partners and rivals of the United States criticized Trump’s rates, a milei dressed in tuxedos was holding Trump’s pumped fist paint, delight in the opportunity to prove his worth, a stubborn champion of US president.
“As you can see, we carry out policies with actions, do not mere words, and in this regard we agree with President Donald Trump,” Milei told the multitude of mar-a-lago, attracting cheers in the name of the name of the US president while speaking in Spanish.
In Buenos Aires, the Milei government sought to reconcile the main round of Trump tariffs with its own radical libertarian ideology and fervent free trade support.
“We do not believe that this is an attack on free trade, quite the opposite,” said Milei spokesman Manuel Adorni, about Trump’s announcement. “I don’t see why there should be so much concern about it.”
For all the mutual compliments of the leaders, Argentina received a minimum rate of 10%. But the officials framed him as a unique preferential treatment. The cover of the largest circulation newspaper in Argentina, Clarín, declared: “Trump raises the tax on our products less than in other countries.”
In Washington, the Argentine Foreign Minister, Gerardo Werthein, celebrated on Thursday what he described as “highly productive” meetings with the main American commercial negotiator Jamieson Greer and the secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who releases pink statements that promised that Argentina was on the way to negotiating a free trade agreement with the United States with the US.
Milei praised progress towards free treatment in his Mar-A-Lago speech. But much more important for the Argentine leader is a expected for $ 20 billion rescue With the International Monetary Fund. The evil cash would help Milei maintain its ambitious economic reforms along the way as the pressure on the few currency reserves in the country increases.
Milei has already used executive powers to eliminate the need for Congress to approve a new IMF program. But the loan has not eliminated the finish line, with the negotiators who still regate on how much Argentine cash, a series morbone that owes about $ 44 billion to the bottom, can access the weather.
It was in this context on Wednesday that Milei, accompanied by its Minister of Economy, got on the plane to the United States, most interested in the fund. He told reporters that he expected “an informal meeting” with Trump, who was instrumental during his first term to help Argentina obtain a large loan of $ 56 billion from the fund in 2018.
But on Friday, Milei’s highly anticipated photo-oation with Trump was nowhere in the amount assembly of his Argentine president publicist taking selfies with fans on the red carpet of Mar-A-Lago.
The president’s office said nothing about his meeting, or, without meeting, with Trump, and did not respond to multiple requests for comments.
Trump arrived in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach very late on Thursday night after attending an event with professional golfers in one of his golf courses near Miami. The White House did not say if he and Milei met.
The main Argentine newspapers cited anonymous officials who say that leaders never met, attracting the instant contempt of their political enemies.
“When I woke up, I thought about finding photography with your ‘friend’ Trump that you went to look,” said former leftist president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on social networks. “What a way to waste time and spend money at all.”
