It's the Brian Larrows Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

One piece of news you may have missed over last weekend

came from Argentina, which held its presidential elections over the weekend.

While we know we're a globally interconnected ecosystem,

it's still hard to really pay attention to every country

and sometimes to grasp the significance of an election, even for us, that feels very far away.

But is it really that far away?

You know, one interesting thing about how globally interconnected we are is how much Argentina's election,

its characters, public opinion, the country struggles, offers a window into our past and

maybe our future in this country.

While reading profiles of the boisterous television

personality turned Argentinian president-elect,

Javier Malay, a self-described anarcho-capitalist who blames the political cast, as he puts it,

for the country's financial issues, they have crazy inflation there,

and expressed the desire to what he called blow up the central bank

he didn't mean it literally and claimed election fraud during the election

season just in case he lost sound sound familiar, can't help it make

comparisons to drain the swamp and stolen election and all of that. Now running

against him was a professional political,

someone who had been active in politics for decades in Argentina

with clear long-term presidential aspirations.

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