Time interviewed and photographed Javier Milei in his office located in Casa Rosada: in the image that heads the note you can see the President at his desk next to economic and political books and his new reference text “Capitalism, socialism and the neoclassical trap.”
“President Javier Milei hates his new office. The Casa Rosada, with its historic blue armchair and ornately paneled walls, feels contaminated by his predecessors, who, in his opinion, led Argentina to ruin,” describes the magazine at the beginning of the note.
And he adds: “But there is one detail that Milei loves. Engraved on the mantelpiece is a bronze lion, the animal he adopted as a symbol during his dizzying rise to power. Showing me the vast space on the second floor, Milei He points to an enlarged photo of the lion, propped on his desk like a totem of his destiny. ‘He was waiting for me here.'”
“Since taking office, Milei, 53, has frozen public works projects, devalued the peso by more than 50% and announced plans to lay off more than 70,000 government workers. So far, he sees signs that his economic “shock therapy” is working,” the author of the text analyzes in another passage of the magazine.
The libertarian president, for his part, posted the image and accompanied it with one of his mottos since he became president: “Neighborhood phenomenon.”
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Milei’s interview with Time magazine
The journalist, in addition to carrying out an analysis of the libertarian administration that took office on December 10, reveals statements made by the President: Milei believes that he is a pioneer in an approach that will become a global plan. ‘Argentina will become a model of how to transform a country into a prosperous nation‘, tells me. ‘I have no doubt’.
In that sense, the author points out that “Milei may be running out of time before her popular support crumbles.”Everyone knew the cost would be enormous‘ says Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino, a close advisor. ‘No one likes what we are experiencing. But there is no other way.'”
What it’s like to meet Milei: the details from Time magazine
The international media details how an interview with the current head of state is managed. “To meet with Mileiyou have to go through the person you are calling The boss , the boss: her sister. On the day of our interview, Karina Milei, wearing silver sequined flip-flops, guarded the door to the President’s office before allowing me to enter. Karina, 52, is a former tarot reader who until a few years ago sold cakes on Instagram. “Now she controls which journalists her brother talks to, which photos of him are published and, reportedly, which cabinet ministers are hired and fired,” she notes.
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