Javier Milei Milei Chronicles

Milei Chronicles (5) Anger and the Economy

28th August 2023 Tony Phillips 0

Milei’s voters just don’t care! They want change and he offers it. He channels their anger. They’re sick of being ignored and ready to break Argentina if they must do. Things can’t get much worse, they say. Are they right?

Javier Milei, The Milei Chronicles

Milei Chronicles (6) The Kirchner Factor

28th August 2023 Tony Phillips 0

The IMF shopped Menem around economic conferences so that he could give speeches to other nations on neoliberalism and privatisation. It is difficult to ignore Milei’s physical resemblance to Menem in the 1980’s, just look at the hairstyles and sideburns.

Ground Zero, Buenos Aires

29th November 2018 Tony Phillips 0

On the last day of November, 2018 the centre of the city of Buenos Aires was put on lock-down by the police, the military, and the secret services of twenty nations to protect their top government representatives; men and women […]

Review: The Lives of Eliza Lynch, Scandal and Courage,

1st March 2010 Tony Phillips 0

I was invited to São Paulo by the Author, former Irish ambassador to the United Nations Michael Lillis, to attend the book launch of the Brazilian Portuguese version of their book. It was refreshing to see that even in the twenty-first century, this shadowy heroine is still capable of eliciting a fiery debate.