Europe has promised retaliation. China is built tariffs of your own. Mexico scattered to dull the blow. But while the world's leaders were hesitated by President Donald Trump's proclamation sweep tariffs on US importsArgentina's right president was Ebultiant, who got to the Mar-A-Lago Mr.
As part of his captured information -propaganda to Mr. Trump, President Argentina Javier Miley Flipped from one of the southernmost countries of the planet up to Palm Bich within 24 hours to receive the reward by honoring his libertarian agenda, and he hoped to make Chat with Mr TrumpWho also was planned for visiting The right galary “American patriot”.
“Make Argentina Great again!” Mohler removed from the ball scene in Mar-a-lago at the end of Thursday.
That would be the fourth Meeting between leaders face to face Since the victory in the election of Mr. Trump last November as President Mille, which imposed a wide program of rigid savings to fix the long -problem economy of Argentina, offers himself one of Mr. Trump's strongest allies in the global cultural war against “welded”.
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Analysts point out that it may be an unwavering union Miley with Mr. Trump.
“He has a special relationship with Trump, which were political for him, but he needs to translate it in favor of the country economically,” said Marcel J. Garcia, Director of America in New York on Geopolitical Counseling Horizon. “He still failed to do it.”
Earlier this year, Miller pulled Argentina from the World Health Organization after the US announced its own output.
He threatened to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement Once this did r -n troke. After Mr. Trump he forbade the treatment of gender changes for minors Prohibited Transgender Athletes from participation in women's sports. He even promoted token cryptocurrency Echo's $ Trump Memecoin – for a great political price. In the case of Milei Cryptocoin Libra, he left the investors holding the bag, $ 250 million at a tune. He later confessed to place about the coin without properly checking the parts.
Mille also reduced public expenses similar to what Mr. Trump and Elon Musk made with the government's efficiency. Since joining in 2023, he reduced the state expenses in Argentina by more than 30%, excluding about a dozen state institutions, postponing 10% of the federal labor and freezing salaries and pensions. While the reduction reduced the country's hyperinflation, they pushed unemployment and poverty. Weekly protests were conducted to criticize the cuts.
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The cuts were something something was promised during their position, even having a chainsaw during their campaign. Then he gave a thus A giant chainsaw modeled After the power tool. Musk waved the chainsaw during the remarks at a conference on political actions.
Opening against socialism and feminism on speeches around the world – including in CPAC – Miller created himself in something Maga's celebrity.
Argentine government responds to Trump tariffs
While US partners and competitors criticize Mr. Trump's tariffs, dressed in Smokin Milie held near the picture of Mr. Trump's fist, giving up the opportunity to prove himself a contractual champion of the US president.
“As you can see, we pursue a policy with actions, not in simple words, and we agree with President Donald Trump,” said Miley crowd in Mar-a-lago, mentioning the name of the American president when he spoke Spanish.
In Buenos -Aires, the Miley government sought to reconcile the main round of Trump with his own radical libertarian ideology and hot support for free trade.
“We do not believe that this is an attack on free trade, quite the opposite,” said the press -secretary of Miley Manuel Adoni about the announcement of Mr. Trump. “I don't understand why it should be so much care.”
For all the mutual flattery of Argentina leaders, it was hit with a minimum tariff by 10%. But the officials made it out as a clear treatment. On the main page of Argentina's largest circulation daily, Clarin said: “Trump raises the tax on our products less than in other countries.”
In Washington, Argentine Foreign Minister Geraard Vertein held what he called “high -performance” meetings with leading US trade negotiations Jamiyen Griro and Secretary of Trade Howard Lutnik, releasing pink statements that promise that Argentina is on the way to negotiate with the United States
Miller praised the progress to a free deal in his speech by Mar-a-lago. But much more important for Argentine leader is a revenue with an international money fund for $ 20 billion. The necessary money you need will help the demeanic economic reforms on the way when the pressure on rare foreign currency reserves.
Milei has already used executive powers to delete the need for Congress to approve a new IMF program. But the loan has not cleared the finish line, and the negotiators still traded how much Argentina's cash, serial default, which owes the fund of $ 44 billion, will allow access to the front.
It was against this background on Wednesday, accompanied by its economy minister, jumped on the plane to the US, the largest stakeholder of the Fund. He told reporters that he was expecting an “informal meeting” with Mr. Trump, which was important during his first term, helping Argentina to provide a major loan at the $ 56 billion in 2018.
But on Friday, a long-awaited photo of Miles with Mr Trump was nowhere to be found in a smooth installation of a publicist Argentine president who walked selfies with supporters on the red track of Mar-a-lago.
The president did not say anything about his meeting album, not with Mr. Trump, and did not respond to numerous requests for comment.
Mr. Trump arrived at Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach very late on Thursday night after attending the event with professional golvists on one of his golf sites near Miami. The White House did not say whether he met and Miller.
The main Argentine newspapers referred to anonymous officials who said the leaders had never met, attracting instant neglect from their political enemies.
“When I woke up, I thought I would find a camera with your” friend “Trump on TV,” left former President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner wrote on social media. “What a way to ruin and spend money on anything.”