Meet Javier Milei, the front-runner to be Argentina’s next president
The radical libertarian gives an interview to The Economist
Javier Milei arrives five minutes early to his interview with The Economist and cuts to the chase. “My goal is to get the country back on its feet,” he says, “so that within 35 to 45 years Argentina can once again be a world power.” Thus begins a discussion which lasts for three hours. Over black coffee with five spoonfuls of sugar, Mr Milei outlines his libertarian beliefs and explains how he would make Argentina, one of the world’s most economically vexed nations, “great again”.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Argentina’s next president?”
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