Lawfare Archive: Argentina’s New President: An Anarcho-capitalist in the Pink House
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🗓️ 28 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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From December 13, 2023: 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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| 1:53.5 | I'm Ben Green, intern at Lawfare, with an episode from the Lawfare Archive for December 28, 24. This month marks a year since the election of the eccentric president of Argentina, |
| 1:59.2 | Javier Malay, who was elected on a radical libertarian policy platform. At the time of the eccentric president of Argentina, Chabier Malé, who was elected on a radical |
| 2:01.5 | libertarian policy platform. At the time of his election, Argentina was facing 150% inflation, |
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