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#NEWWORLDREPORT: MILEI STUMBLES. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#NEWWORLDREPORT: MILEI STUMBLES. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS
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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered what your last meal would be?

0:03.8

Well, I've got the perfect podcast for you.

0:06.7

Desert Island Dishes is a chart-topping podcast where every week I talk to a different guest about the seven dishes that have shaped their life.

0:14.7

And we find out what the last meal they'd choose to eat before being cast off the desert island would be.

0:21.3

This is a show about food, guaranteed to inspire you in the kitchen, but it's also a show about

0:27.0

people and the stories behind the food. Listen to Desert Island dishes wherever you get your

0:32.1

podcast, and remember to hit follow so you don't miss an episode.

0:43.9

Thank you. Remember to hit Follow so you don't miss an episode. I'm John Batson with my colleague, Professor Evan Ellis.

0:46.8

This is a puzzler, Evan.

0:48.7

An Argentine judge assigned to investigate President Javier Malay's role in promoting a cryptocurrency that crashed,

0:56.9

the latest shockwave from a scandal that has threatened to slow the libertarian leader's momentum.

1:02.3

It's all very simple to tell on Friday night, the president of Argentina, on social media, recommended a crypto coin called Libra with a dollar sign,

1:16.8

capital, L-I-B-R-A.

1:19.3

It was a scam, apparently, from early reports, and that after an initial surge, it crashed.

1:26.5

And the investors, I'm told her, outside of Argentina,

1:29.9

Argentine crypto traders didn't have access to it. At least that's a financial times report.

1:35.0

I don't have paper on that. But now Mr. Malay is starting a round of interviews to say that he made a

1:42.1

mistake. He wasn't participating in any fashion in the profits or the losses.

1:47.5

He was promoting something that perhaps he shouldn't have. Why, Evan? Does this make sense after all

1:54.8

the success that he's had? He would plunge into something without good information. Does he need more

1:59.7

advisors?

2:05.6

Well, it's a great question, John. I think that this really reflects a combination of things that are going on in Argentina. One, Javier Malay is both an economist and very unorthodox person

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