This is John Batchelor, a fun conversation about Javier Malay, the new president of Argentina,

a man who campaigned with a chainsaw, has wonderful attributes of an eccentric, very well educated, academic, but he's the

president of Argentina, a country in deep trouble, deep debt, huge inflation, despair for many years, dominated by a party called the

parenistas who are heavily unionized and dominate the landscape.

Not now.

Aviary Malay went to Davos, made a speech to the World Economic Forum, and I asked Varenique

De Regi, was there applause for the new president of Argentina who's speaking against the

idea of managed economies, command economies, socialism, the superiority of the elites. He's speaking against it. Was there

applause in the audience and Varanique answered very carefully and with wit.

Here's Varyneke to Rijian on how was Javier Milay's speech at the World Economic Forum

in which he pretty much said you're doing it all wrong.

How was it received?

I watched it and he, I heard clapping and then it was confirmed when I was reading a story in the Wall Street Journal about it that against all expectation I mean he got a significant amount of support.

I mean, people were really clapping.

And it was particularly moving because at the end of his speech,

he said, he ended like with the same slogan that he's used during his campaign.

They said, long-lived freedom, damn it.

And it was kind of interesting because when I heard it,

I heard it with a translator and you can hear the translator pause because he

thinking hmm what is he saying and then and then went on to give the

translation and I think kind of people were energized by his speech

because it was so unusual.

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