Javier Milei added this Friday night one more item on the agenda that he had planned for the trip that will take this Saturday towards the United States, where he will participate in a forum that brings together senior officials, CEOs of the 500 most important companies in the world and investment funds, and in which the head of the Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, will also be present. It was officially confirmed that will meet Elon Musk again.
This was reported in the last hours by Manuel Adorni. “The meeting was confirmed: the next Monday, May 6 the President of the Nation Javier Milei and the General Secretary of the Presidency Karina Milei will meet with Elon Musk. A meeting is scheduled at 3:30 p.m.. End,” wrote the presidential spokesperson on the social network that belongs, precisely, to the South African tycoon.
The first contact between the two occurred on April 12 in Austin, Texas. There, the Argentine president and the second richest man in the world toured Tesla’s immense 1,000-hectare industrial plant called GigaTexas.
Although they did not know each other personally, Musk and Milei had interacted repeatedly on X (formerly Twitter), always positive, and also talked on the phone. The South African, for example, called the President by phone to congratulate him when he won the elections and told him that he wanted to visit Argentina and invest in our country.
Now they will meet again. But Before, the President will travel for the first time on the ARG 01 planethe national State aircraft that Alberto Fernández purchased, bound for Los Angeles.
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On his fourth visit to the United States since he took office in December, the head of state will be accompanied by his small trusted group made up of his sister Karina Milei, the chief of staff, Nicolás Posse, the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, and the ambassador to the United States, Gerardo Werthein.
Milei is at the top of the list of speakers and will open Monday’s lunch at the so-called Milken Institute with his speech, as a guest of the event’s executive director, Conrad Kiechel. Caputo will also give a talk.
The former president will participate in the conference Bill Clinton; the president of the IDB, Ilan Goldfajn; Joe Biden’s regional advisor, Christopher Dodd; the head of the New York Federal Reserve, John Williams; Tesla CEO Elon Musk; Exxon Mobil’s Darren Woods; Chevron’s Michael Wirth, CEO Franklin Templeton; the CIO of BlackRock, James Keenan, and the CEO of Wells Fargo, Charlie Scharf, and executives from JP Morgan, as well as US congressmen and officials from Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Dubai.
“Love at first sight”: the sensations of the first Milei-Musk meeting
“It was like love at first sight,” said a witness of the first face-to-face meeting between Milei and Musk, in the largest Tesla factory, one of the companies in the Space X and Starlink duel.
A few minutes after that quote, the South African said: “We are moving towards an exciting and inspiring future!”
“The chemistry that existed in the meeting is very difficult to describeit was as if two soulmates had come together, they agreed on all the points they touched, but each one added their own perspective that makes them different people, each in their category,” Gerardo Werthein, the ambassador, described to Clarín at that time. appointed in the US, who was at the meeting.
Musk and Milei have had several gestures of mutual sympathy in recent months. In January of this year, for example, the magnate praised the speech that the President gave at the Davos Economic Forum, where he defended capitalism and warned that “the West is in danger.”
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President Javier Milei met this Friday with Elon Musk.
In addition to being very interested in lithium of our country, a mineral that is vital for the batteries of its electric cars, the businessman also tries to play hard in the satellite communications business.
In February, Starlink was authorized by Milei to provide its internet services. As a gesture, the company donated 33 pieces of equipment to support the service in rural schools.
