Javier Milei’s “four-legged children” have become objects of fascination and a window into his unusual candidacy in an election now going into a run-off.
After finishing a surprising first in Argentina’s presidential primaries in August, Javier Milei grabbed a microphone in front of a raucous crowd and thanked Conan, Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas.Milei, a far-right libertarian who was the favourite in Argentina’s presidential election on Sunday, would head to the country’s presidential offices, the Casa Rosada, not with a spouse and children, but with five mastiffs he has long called his children.
He has made the cloned dogs symbols of his libertarian ideals by naming four of them for three conservative American economists: Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman and Robert Lucas. Milei, 53 has attracted attention at home and abroad for his bellicose political style that has drawn comparisons – which he has embraced – to Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president.
To clone his dogs, Milei hired PerPETuate, a company run by Ron Gillespie, 75, who got his start in the world of livestock insemination and now runs a “genetic preservation” firm from the Big Island of Hawaii.Gillespie said he received an email from Milei in 2014, saying he was interested in cloning Conan. “He said that this dog was his life,” Gillespie said.
. Scientists remove the nucleus from each donor egg cell, wiping them clean of all their DNA. Into those empty eggs, the scientists insert the cells full of DNA of the animal being cloned.
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