In just one week the extreme right have faced five important defeats in the Southern cone which are helping to precipitate the collapse of Javier Milei’s libertarian experiment in Argentina. Two of these defeats occurred on the same day, Monday the 17th of August, 2026. First the lover of Milei’s former political consultant, Fernando Cerimedo, was shot three times leading to the consultant’s arrest at the Viru-Viru airport in Santa Cruz de la Serra, Bolivia, as he tried to escape to Buenos Aires that same day. Second, that same day one of Buenos Aire’s most expensive suburbs was the scene of hilarious act of political theatre in front of Peter Thiel’s mansion by a pageant of Gandalf Warlocks singing football songs.
Milei’s other important political defeats came the week before with the political collapse of two ambitious laws he had been working on for months which were voted down (or hollowed out) as they faced social protests from anti-libertarian nationalists in the streets outside the Congress.
Milei’s most difficult problem has been entirely his own fault. Milei chose to destroy the local economy losing millions of jobs and and forcing tens of thousands of companies into bankruptcy as prices tripled in dollar terms twenty million tax residents are now in technical default on at least one loan.
His candidature demonstrated falling support in polls (see below) and may soon result in Javier Milei being replaced as the 2027 presidential candidate in the MIlei-Macri coalition of PRO and LLA parties in Argentina. Alternative candidates are not yet public but various politicians have been very active of late including the current head of the LLA block in the Senate, Patricia Bullrich, a former interior minister who lost against Milei as the PRO candidate in the last election.
Other possible right wing presidential pick is the gormless Diego Santilli, already recognised as a candidate to replace Axel Kiciloff, should Kiciloff step down as Governor of the State of Buenos Aires. Jorge Macri, commonly referred to as “Blackry”, is also a pick to be a Presidential candidate in 2027 for the far right.
Blackry is now mayor of Buenos Aires, the second most powerful political position in the state. While Cerimedo was being arrested in Santa Cruz, Blackry was bowing his head to Pastor Carlos Mraida who was asking the crowd to pray (not for the people of Buenos Aires) but for its government. This vast event took place on a massive stage in front of the National Congress in Buenos Aires at the March for Jesus a Christian National evangelical conference. Having thanked Jesus for the recent pregnancy and birth of his latest child with his partner “Belén”, Spanish for Bethlehem, Blackry handed over to Pastor Mraida who asked Jesus to bless his government for the tough stance his government has been taking against petty crime in the impoverished neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires. We thank God that pregnancy is no longer considered a disease the Pastor added but a Gift from God giving his own radical right interpretation of Christian conservative Argentina.
Bolivia and the Cerimedo Affaire
Question (albeit rhetorical): What do (1) Argentine president Javier Milei, and (2) the now jailed former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, and (3) the current troubled president of Bolivia, the US Citizen Rodrigo Paz, all have in common? Answer: They all rose to power with the help of online troll-farms put together by Fernando Cerimedo’s political campaign services deploying online manipulation in their election campaigns. But Cerimedo goes much further.
Cerimedo was the only non-Brazilian citizen named in the litigation from “Operation Counter Coup” which jailed Bolsonaro for his involvement in the attempted murder of Lula Da Silva. The one man private CIA operative, Cerimodo, has been working out of Rodrigo Paz’s office in the Bolivian capital under cover for the last few months as the president has been under siege from various sectors of his society calling for his resignation, as business cards revealed when his house was searched by police the next day.
Numen Public Consultancy is the most important of Cerimedo’s companies in these elections. Based out of Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Numen sells far right campaign management in various South and Central American presidential campaigns; the three aforementioned southern cone nations and Honduras (at least). Cerimedo was recently working in Bolivia on the campaign of President Rodrigo Paz and it seems he met a girl in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia’s second city.
Cerimedo was arrested at Viru-viru airport on the 17th of August 2026 in Santa Cruz (Bolivia’s second city). Nadia Beller his former girlfriend was shot three times by a motorbike driver death squad which arrived at her hotel disguised as a “Pedidos Ya!” food delivery service. One of the motorbike couriers shot Ms. Beller and, believing she was dead, fled on a stolen replacement motorbike when their own get-away bike would not start.
Gandalf to the rescue of Argentine Elites
Palantir is a company jointly founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp with venture funding from the CIA start-up venture capital arm In-Q-Tel owned by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The CIA was Palantir’s only client for the first three years of its initial deployment. Palantir now operates globally surveilling individuals and corporations globally spying on their assumed enemies or threats and competition.
Palantir is named after an all seeing eye in one of Thiel’s (and many other nerd’s) favourite childhood book, The Lord of the Rings. In the book Gandalf the warlock (styled on the mythical character, Merlin the Magician) defeats the all-seeing eye of the Palantir and good defeats evil.
Once Thiel’s investments in the Argentine fracked oil and gas fields in Neuquen were revealed by a quarterly SEC report, the Gandalf gang were organised to sing a soccer hooligan’s little dance of protest outside Thiel’s mansion holding a banner which said (in English) “Thou shall not pass” advocating a very anti-libertarian restriction on further investment by Thiel in Argentina albeit the company that sold the shares, Vista registered in Mexico rose in value 5% after the news leaked of the Thiel investment (which making the company even richer).
Inviolability of Property Law and Fire Management
Milei is a political extremist. His extremism is a quirky sect on the far right called Rothbardian Libertariansim, sometimes known as anarchocapitalism or extreme propertarianism. What this means to the rest of us is that Javier Milei takes a very extreme position on property. Whether that property might be Peter Thiel’s ownership of shares in US Artificial Intelligence companies like Palantir or OpenAI, or land and property titles in Argentina like his $12 million dollar mansion (picketed by Gandalf activists) or his fund’s purchase of more than 70 million dollars worth of oil and gas exploitation in Argentina’s largest oil field “Vaca Muerta”, Javi wants these properties to be protected forever.
Javier Milei’s extremist right wing coalition had tried to push through two major laws in one day the Inviolability of Property Act (described above) and the Fire Management Law which sought to undermine the currently illegal practice (common in Patagonia and elsewhere especially in forested tourism areas in rural Argentina) of starting forest fires deliberately to burn out current residents then attempting to buy the land under these cleared forests in a literal “fire sale”.
Both property laws were either diluted or failed outright when Argentine citizen’s came into the streets in early Auguust 2026 to protest this propertarian extremism that would have literally allowed a foreign company or an oligarch to buy an Argentine province entirely (with or without forest fires).
Popularity and the Economy
Since Milei took power he has destroyed the internal economy in a desperate attempt to balance the budgets without fixing corruption (indeed making it worse). Milei has followed the US playbook driving down taxation while religiously paying off (ever expanding national debt) which has made the top 1% of the population very much richer while driving 20 Million people into personal debt crises.
While only a few leaks of Milei’s corruption have yet come to light the costs to the state and to his followers are in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Because the head of state in Argentina has immunity Milei will have to stay in power to avoid indictment, or he may need to leave the country which may be why Milei accepted Italian citizenship from his Far right heroine, Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni.
Both the theft of $300 Millions in a $Libra crisis and the tens (or even hundreds) of millions stolen in the overpricing scandal of state medicine billing with pharmaceutical labs (the so-called ANDIS crisis) clearly show that corruption, under Milei, rather than being eliminated as he promised has even grown into new sectors. While Milei looks like he’s on his way out the Peronist opposition is also in trouble and completely. Many of them voted against their whips to receive payments for their votes from Milei. Now his unpopularity is making them look worse.
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