Milei just wants to MAGA (Make Argentina Great Again)... until the last Ukrainian Argentinian.
AFAIK the main difference with Milei is that he's leaning towards targeting protestors as you say, and probably any leftist in particular - not gangs. He's also gushed about how much he loves Al Capone. So I think its political persecution masquerading as law and order - which may leave Argentina's overt criminals untouched.
It's possible that Ecuador is taking a leaf from El Salvador's book with its recent military mobilization against gangs. That may just be wishful thinking on my part, tho, I don't know much about the situation at all.
*I said it before and I say it again, that is totally fallacious. The Argentine people always rejected socialism, Peronism in no way was the government continuously since the second Peron government was overthrown in a coup d'etat (1955) and Peronism was banned for several years before its return in the 60s/70s and then there was another de facto government, the last civil/military dictatorship (1976-1983).
Yeah, that Davos stunt is paying off for Milei. Apparently, he was "speaking truth to power" with his speech and his stand against the 2030 agenda, one has to ask: is Milei really against the WEF? Or maybe just with some aspects.
"Good explanation of what makes countries more or less prosperous"
No, it's not. It's an explanation of what makes the few prosperous like yourself.
"Musk is definitely going where the government money is. It's a great strategy, but at some point the government will stop contributing," sums up Dan Dolev, an analyst at Jefferies. Indeed, here's the crux of the matter: whether Musk's companies are going to be able to survive on their own when public support runs out, creating sustainable businesses." Elon Musk, un emprendedor 'público':
Elon Musk became one of the richest guys on the planet because he has benefited from $4.9 billion in government support in the form of grants, tax breaks, investments in factory construction and subsidized loans.
Controversial benefits: Mercado Libre* receives more than USD 100 million per year in tax subsidies from the Argentine government.
Marcos Galperin's company is registered in the regime for the promotion of knowledge economy companies and details it in its reports to the US SEC. Militancy in networks, business strategy and new business areas
Less than two weeks before the CGT's first major strike in the Milei era, the Argentine community in France gained key support in the trade union world for the fight to stop the mega DNU and the omnibus law.
The intersyndical of workers in France expressed their solidarity with the general strike of January 24 against the DNU and "the unconstitutional laws of the Milei government". They also called for a rally in front of the Argentine embassy in Paris at 6:00 p.m., as called by the Assembly of Argentine Citizens in France.
The crew members of the Lufthansa airbus which, during the night of January 18, was due to take off from Frankfurt airport for Ezeiza, could not get over their astonishment at the almost hysterical vehemence of that woman with the elongated face and sunken eyes. The fact is that she insisted loudly on delaying the departure, since some of her traveling companions had not yet arrived from Zurich, namely: the translator, the doctor and the bodyguards accompanying Javier Milei on his first official trip as President of the Nation. The truth is that his sister, Karina, was out of her mind.Economists who dream of privatizing the sea, worshippers of the last dictatorship, Nazis turned to ultra-liberalism, former officials with a shady past, influencers and simple opportunists.
Milei's regime advances against the provinces. It wants to achieve by force and by deceit that the governors are left depending exclusively on the discretional nature of the Nation's transfers in order to survive. To achieve this, Caputo's officials are working to legally challenge the quasi-monies of La Rioja and to overturn an emergency district financing tool. This is going to end very badly.
In this case the problem with Milei is not that he does not tell the truth, but how he tells it. Well, Milei thinks he has enough moral quality because he does not have the dark past, communist, criminal, and political parasite that Petro has. He, Petro, in turn disqualifies him as an ignorant, ill-informed, ultra-right-wing, quasi-Nazi. The tone of the statements that are heard no longer comes from the emotional mass woke, BLM, etc. nor from their antagonists, it comes from presidents of nations that represent millions of people-souls. Presidents who are elected because they are supposed to be educated people with manners and prepared to be "dispassionate" and hopefully with some moral but what we see are ignorant, exaggerated and crass people who lack the vocabulary to express themselves or dont use diplomatic ways such as "self- help", on the contrary they attack by exposing their "trapos al sol", something like digging into the shameful failures to make populist, shady, incompetent, convenient and demagogic politics to impose their conditions.Javier Milei has not bitten his tongue to qualify his counterpart Gustavo Petro. "He is a murderous communist who is sinking Colombia", he answered without hesitation to the Colombian journalist Ángela Patricia Janiot in an interview that has spread like wildfire this Friday on social networks and has caused Colombia to immediately recall its ambassador in Buenos Aires for consultations.
To be fair, the new Colombian leader is a total disaster (the prior one was also a disaster - just a minor disaster comparatively :)). Milei might do a lot of stupid things (like supporting genocide in Gaza or traveling to the WEF meeting when he is trying to present himself as a man of the people - LMAO ) but I cannot fault him for going after Colombia's new government.Argentine President Javier Milei faced on Wednesday the first general strike in only 45 days of government, against his draconian fiscal adjustment and his plan to reform more than a thousand laws to give himself all the power
Now he is once again resorting to controversy to divert the attention of the Argentines... circus, somerset and theater.
Milei calls Petro a "murderous communist" and Colombia recalls its ambassador to Argentina for consultations
Javier Milei has not bitten his tongue to qualify his counterpart Gustavo Petro. "He is a murderous communist who is sinking Colombia", he answered without hesitation to the Colombian journalist Ángela Patricia Janiot in an interview that has spread like wildfire this Friday on social networks and has caused Colombia to immediately recall its ambassador in Buenos Aires for consultations.
"Those who attack us have no idea what communism is or what socialism is," Petro said this Friday during an event in the Pacific region, where he overturned his government this week, without mentioning Milei by name. "We believe and want the means of production to be in the hands of the people, not the state," he said in a didactic tone in reference to a discussion about the port of Buenaventura.
"On behalf of the Government of Colombia, I present my most energetic protest for the disrespectful and irresponsible statements of the President of the Republic of Argentina," reacted earlier the Colombian Foreign Minister, Alvaro Leyva, who broke with that message his silence after being suspended this week by the Attorney General's Office. "President Milei's words disregard and violate the deep ties of friendship, understanding and cooperation that have historically united Colombia and Argentina, and that have been strengthened over two centuries," the Foreign Ministry said in an official statement.
Milei has been somewhat more pragmatic as President than during his campaign, but even so, he has been focused on getting Argentina "back to the world" seeking to prioritize the relationship with the United States, where the Biden Administration looks at him with distrust due to his admiration for former President Donald Trump, and with Israel, which is facing a delicate moment in the eyes of the world due to its offensive in the Gaza Strip -Petro, by contrast, has been a standard bearer of the Palestinian cause-. Its clearest step was to erase a work of the previous government and renounce to join the BRICS, the economic alliance led by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, even though it was an open door to the international financing that Argentina in crisis needs so much.
Milei llama “comunista asesino” a Petro y Colombia llama a consultas a su embajador en Argentina
Bogotá “rechaza enérgicamente” las palabras del presidente argentino en una entrevista con Ángela Patricia Janiotelpais.com
This would not shock me at all. You have the Porteños in Buenos Aires versus much of the rest of the country that voted for Milei DESPERATE for some sort of change from the last 20 years of economic suicide through government incompetence from both the left and the right the last time they had their shot. I told people even if Milei knew what he was doing and could make meaningful changes (something I don't believe; and I think some of his actions since the election, like even attending Davos, prove that...), there was no way the establishment or the people who supported it would let it happen. I would not be shocked to see some sort of Civil War or breakup of Argentina in the process any more than to watch it happen in the US. As I told my friend in Colombia thinking of moving to Argentina, I think it is going to completely and totally collapse before this is all over. I just don't see any way this ends well.
Context: As the money from the federal co-participation
(Federal co-participation of taxes is a system of tax collection and distribution of the proceeds among the Argentine national State, the provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, which acquired constitutional rank in 1994, although since then it has not been possible to reach a consensus on the law mandated by the Constitution).
subject to the whim of milei, and in addition to the unstoppable inflation, the provinces resort to the legal mechanism of creating their own currencies.
The government intends to avoid this, which violates the autonomy of the provinces.
If this continues, sooner or later it will provoke a situation of division among the provinces. In other words, it would trigger a civil conflict.
Which, by different methods, is similar to the likely outcome of the events in Texas... In both cases there is an idea of armed civil conflict...
Argentine police fire rubber bullets and used water cannons to disperse protesters gathered outside Congress as lawmakers debated the new president's sweeping economic, social and political reform package.