Javier Milei Girds Argentines for Economic Upheaval as He Assumes Office
Buenos Aires—Javier Milei was inaugurated as Argentina’s new president on Dec. 10 as thousands of enthusiastic Argentines gathered to hear his first speech.
“Today we are burying decades of failures, internal infighting and senseless disputes,” President Milei said in front of the National Congress of Argentina. Today begins a new era in Argentina, an era of peace and prosperity.”
Mr. Milei evoked Argentina’s history, and praised its founding fathers as champions of freedom. He said the pro-freedom ideas they adopted were responsible for making Argentina a world power in the late 19th and early 20th century, and that replacing those ideas for collectivism ruined the country. Just like the fall of the Berlin Wall marks the end of a tragic era for this world, this election marks the turning point of our history,” President Milei said.
