Argentina's president is hell-bent on fixing the country's economic woes, chainsaw in hand. But are his radical tactics working?
It's one of many outlandish claims made by Argentinian president Javier Milei , whose eccentric public persona has earned him the nickname, El Loco, translated literally as "the crazy man".
"He himself has been pretty open about the fact that his father was verbally and sometimes physically abusive. He used to beat him," says Vera Bergengruen, national security reporter at The Wall Street Journal, who interviewed Milei for TIME Magazine in April this year. In 2021, Milei established the far-right coalition, La Libertad Avanza, and assumed office in the Argentine Congress, where he established a monthly raffle to give away his salary to a random Argentinian.
In March 2023, a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires lost power for eight days during a heat wave, prompting mass protests.The country made economic history in 2001 by defaulting on $260 billion worth of debt repayments, cycling through three presidents in three days and reaching an unemployment rate of 18 per cent. It defaulted again in 2014 and yet again in 2020.
Yet, the original Conan still reigns supreme, apparently communicating with his former owner via a mystic — and at one point instructing him to run for president.
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