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Thirty five years after we adopted the model of freedom, back in 1860, we became a leading world power. And when we embraced collectivism over the course of the last 100 years, we saw how our citizens started to become systematically impoverished, and we dropped to spot number 140 globally.

— Javier Milei

What It Means

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Javier Milei

About Javier Milei

Javier Milei (born 22 October 1970) is an Argentine politician and economist who has served as President of Argentina since December 2023. Before his election, he was an anarcho-capitalist economist who supported the Austrian School. He was elected on a right-wing libertarian populist platform which blamed Peronist economic and political institutions for Argentina's economic decline and promised radical reforms.