Milei Chronicles (8) A Non-viable Candidate?

7th September 2023 Tony Phillips 1

Milei claims to be a follower of the Austrian School of “economic” philosophy developed in Vienna before World War One. This quasi-religious doctrine has never been implemented in its pure form (as described by Milei in his rambling incoherent speeches) […]

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Milei Chronicles (1) Elección las PASO (Castellano)

28th August 2023 Tony Phillips 0

Un hombrecito de 52 años ha ganado unas elecciones en Argentina y los sismos de este resultado están causando fisuras en el absurdo teatro político argentino. Javier Milei es ahora oficialmente el candidato presidencial que ha recibido más votos para su propia alianza política que ayudó a fundar en 2021: La Libertad Avanza

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Milei Chronicles (1) PASO Election

28th August 2023 Tony Phillips 1

A sideburn-strapping 52 year old angry little man has won an pre-election in Argentina and the shock waves from this result are causing fissures in the Argentine political theatre of the absurd. Javier Milei and La Libertad Avanza

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Milei Chronicles (2) Bipolar Political Divide

28th August 2023 Tony Phillips 1

Since the 1943 Argentine coup d’État, and Perón’s resulting presidential investiture in 1945, Juan Domingo Perón’s legacy has been a grand divide in Argentine politics between believers in his personality cult (Peronists) ⏤followers of his very flexible, somewhat nationalist, policies⏤ and the rest who hate him with a passion.

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Milei Chronicles (3) Policy Choices? Not Really!

28th August 2023 Tony Phillips 1

In Milei’s bully-speak ‘casta’ refers to the actual political groupings (UP and PRO). He thus shields the real Argentine casta who pay the bribes and provide the financial backing for both. La Libertad Avanza are engendering Argentine Tea-Party fans. Milei is their anti-Perón.

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Milei Chronicles (4) Casta (Castellano)

28th August 2023 Tony Phillips 0

En la jerga de Milei, ‘casta’ se refiere a las agrupaciones políticas (ambos UxP y JxC) que él afirma, con cierta evidencia, son incompetentes, decadentes, corruptas y fracasan en su tarea de representar a la mayoría del pueblo argentino. Esconde […]

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Milei Chronicles (4) “Casta”

28th August 2023 Tony Phillips 3

Milei misuses the word casta to refer to politicians in both UxP and the JxC. In Milei’s bullying language he claims that the current Argentine political casta are incompetent, decadent, corrupt and have failed in their tasks of representing the […]