Milei Hosts Historic Conservative Summit in Buenos Aires

On 4 Decem­ber 2024, Reuters report­ed that Argenti­na’s Pres­i­dent Javier Milei con­vened a major con­ser­v­a­tive gath­er­ing in Buenos Aires, bring­ing togeth­er promi­nent right-wing/nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive fig­ures from across the Amer­i­c­as, includ­ing Trump fam­i­ly mem­bers and Bol­sonaro allies. The arti­cle begins:

Argenti­na’s lib­er­tar­i­an Pres­i­dent Javier Milei, increas­ing­ly a poster child for rightwing pol­i­tics and free-mar­kets, is host­ing allies of U.S. Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bol­sonaro at a sum­mit in Buenos Aires on Wednes­day. Buoyed by the elec­tion win of ide­o­log­i­cal ally Trump, Milei is kick­ing off the Con­ser­v­a­tive Action Polit­i­cal Con­fer­ence at which Bol­sonaro and Trump’s daugh­ter-in-law Lara Trump are expect­ed to speak, the for­mer via video…

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Key Points:

1. The sum­mit fea­tures promi­nent nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive media fig­ures like Ben Shapiro and Steve Ban­non, along­side polit­i­cal lead­ers from Spain’s far-right/­na­tion­al con­ser­v­a­tive Vox party.
2. Milei warned against social­is­m’s advance while pro­mot­ing free-mar­ket poli­cies, despite his eco­nom­ic approach dif­fer­ing from Trump’s protectionism.
3. The Argen­tine pres­i­den­t’s rela­tion­ship with Trump has strength­ened recent­ly, with Trump call­ing him his “favorite pres­i­dent” after a U.S. visit.
4. While Milei’s aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures have helped con­trol infla­tion, they have also increased pover­ty and slowed eco­nom­ic growth.