Chainsaw out of gas? Milei’s experiment wobbles
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The Economist
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A telling local-election loss, persistent allegations of scandal and an American pledge to prop up the peso: much is chipping away at the experiment of Argentina’s President Javier Milei. Long after the twin troubles of a pandemic and interest-rate rises, America’s commercial-property sector might at last be recovering. And we return to an interview with Jane Goodall from our archives.
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