Argentina

Javier Milei is a rock star. The president of Argentina was, in fact, in a Rolling Stones cover band as a teen. But now he plays stadiums — like Buenos Aires’ 8,400-capacity Luna Park — as a political phenomenon, a charismatic cross between Donald Trump and Milton Friedman. Except that Milei, a former economics professor himself, is more free-market than Friedman, in theory at least.

Argentina actually elected a libertarian president. Javier Milei campaigned with a chainsaw, promising to cut the size of government. Argentina’s leftists had so clogged the country’s economic arteries with regulations that what once was one of the world’s richest countries is now one of the poorest. Inflation is more than 200%.

So, Javier Milei is extremely scary. That’s what the legacy media have decided: The newly elected libertarian conservative leader of Argentina is absolutely frightening. Axios calls him a “far-right libertarian who’s been compared to (former President Donald) Trump.” The New York Times writes, “Argentina Braces Itself for Its New ‘Anarcho-Capitalist’ President,” and called the…

The Washington Post threw a temper tantrum over “far-right economist” Javier Milei sending a shockwave throughout the world with his victorious presidential bid against leftist Economy Minister Sergio Massa in Argentina.

Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Milei warned independent journalist Tucker Carlson that fighting the economic catastrophe of socialism is a constant battle. 

For his job as CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir gets to travel to some of the most beautiful parts of the world. He also gets to lecture people on the need to decarbonize the economy, as he did on Wednesday’s CNN This Morning from Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world that is roughly 6,600 miles from CNN’s New York headquarters.

CNN At This Hour host Kate Bolduan welcomed former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards onto her Friday show to condemn the trend of Republican states passing pro-life bills and to lament that this puts the United States out of touch with the rest of the world.

The New York Times hailed victory in its fight for abortion in Argentina, cheering on “a landmark vote” legalizing abortion in the Latin American country on Saturday: “Argentine Women’s Voices Helped Shift a Movement.” The paper dishonestly linked abortion indelibly to feminism and the “women’s movement” there, as if all women are of a single mind on abortion: "This week, after their…