Argentina’s New President: An Anarcho-capitalist in the Pink House
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
You may have heard of Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president, thanks to some of his eccentricities, like his five cloned dogs or his reliance on a chainsaw prop to illustrate the need to cut public expenditure. But Milei was able to harness the dissatisfaction with a system that has left the country with 150% inflation and over 40% of the population under the line of poverty. Now, the self described anarcho-capitalist libertarian will attempt to turn the economy around with shocking fiscal adjustment.
To discuss this inflection point in Argentina, Lawfare’s Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri spoke with Ana Iparraguirre, a partner at consulting firm GBAO and a frequent commentator on leading Latin American media outlets. They talked about Milei’s rise to power, if and how he can deliver on his campaign promises, and what that would even mean for the Argentinian people.
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| 1:01.0 | T's and sees apply. So the cast for him is his opponent, not the cast means. So to him being part of the cast means that you object the |
| 1:26.7 | changes that he's proposing. So if you were a politician for a hundred years but you |
| 1:32.1 | want to embrace the changes that he proposes |
| 1:35.8 | then Milay says fine then you're not part of the cast no matter where you come from |
| 1:40.0 | now if you object these changes it is because you want to maintain, you know, the old privileges and then you're part of the caste. |
| 1:48.0 | So that's how he has redefined this. |
| 1:50.0 | I am Eugenia Lachte,, Lawfares Fellow in Technology Policy and Law, and this is the |
| 1:56.0 | Law for Podcast, December 13, 2023. |
| 2:00.4 | You may have heard of Javier Milay, Argentina's new president, thanks to some of his eccentricities, like his five-clone dogs or his relying on a chain soap prop to illustrate the need to cut public expenditure. |
| 2:12.0 | But Milay was able to harness the dissatisfaction with a |
| 2:15.5 | system that has left the country with a 150% inflation and over 40% of the population |
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