The enormous affinity that exists between Javier Milei and the president of the United States, Donald Trumphe put Argentina in a scenario in which the world sees her as an ally of the American giant, and especially the ideas of the tycoon who already launched her second mandate. This time was the newspaper Financial Times (Ft) who talked about it, and He described the libertarian as part of a “Fans Club” of Trump.
La nota fue titulada como “Donald Trump’s Latin American fan club hopes for loans and access” (“The Latin American Fans Club of Donald Trump expects loans and access”). And refers to three presidents among which is Milei. The other two are the Salvadoran Nayib Bukele and his Ecuadorian couple, Daniel Noboa.
“While other world leaders care about tariffs and authoritarianism, Bukele, Argentine Javier Milei and Ecuadorian Daniel Noboa They believe that approaching the US president could ensure more investments, access to senior officials and cover up controversial policies“, highlights the article that carries the signing of the journalist Michael Stott, from Rio de Janeiro.
There he also quotes different sources such as Ryan Berg, director of the Americas program of the CSIS Studies Center in Washington, who highlights that all of them “want a national impulse, Trump’s impulse” when approaching the tycoon to be able to transmit “to their voters the sign that they can contact Trump quickly and solve their problems with the United States.”
The FT recalls that both Milei and Bukele “have achieved new large loans from important lenders (the IMF, the World Bank and the Inter -American Development Bank), in which the US has the greatest weight of vote” and that the support of Washington “It was decisive to move forward a huge loan of 20,000 million dollars from the IMF to Argentinaa country that is already by far the largest debtor in the fund. “
And he remarks: “When Milei raised most of Argentina’s exchange controls after signing the agreement in April, US Treasury secretary, Scott Besent, traveled to Buenos Aires to provide public support to the government. Since then, the weight has challenged the predictions of most economists, who foresaw their collapse after the flexibility of the fixed exchange rate, falling less than 10% despite a fall of 30% allowed under the exchange band introduced with the rescue of the IMF “.
“Argentina was just his second international trip as secretary of the Treasury,” the newspaper quotes Kezia McKeague, an advisor about Argentina for McLarty Associates in Washington. “Obviously, it was a great sample of support for Milei”He emphasizes.
However, the British publication warns about the limits that the trio of Latin American presidents can achieve: “Argentina and Ecuador want a free trade agreement with the United States, but the bipartisan hostility in Washington towards new commercial pacts makes it unlikely.”
“No near Trump ally has so far obtained an exemption from base tariffs of 10 percent imposed by the president. However, although the narrow links with Trump can be toxic in Europe, the proximity of Latin America to the United States and its polarized policy between left and right means that the US president is seen more favorably there than in much of the world,” adds the newspaper.
