The photo with Elon Musk, the hug with Donald Trump, the meeting with the Pope, the call to invest in the country, the speech in Davos or the crying of Javier Milei at the Wailing Wall, they cost Argentina $236,059,882.07, According to the management report given on Wednesday in the Senate by the Chief of Staff of the Nation, Nicolas Posse. The sum includes the president’s trip to the United States where he participated in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and his visits to Miami, Davos, Israel, Italy and the Vatican.
The data is revealed while Milei finalize the details of your flight to Spain which he undertakes this Thursday together with his sister and Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei. He does so aboard the ARG 01 to Madrid, headquarters of the summit of the right-wing party Vox, in which he will be present after the clashes with the government of Pedro Sánchez due to ideological differences.
That decision was made after Iran’s attack on Israel, which generated a strong stir and led to the decision to prevent the president from continuing to travel on commercial flights for security reasons. That already had an impact on the last trip to Los Angeles, to speak at the Milken Institute forum, which does not yet appear among the Chief of Staff’s responses.
Regarding the details of the money used in each mission by the president and his entourage, Posse indicated in his report that by going to Washington, Israel, Italy and the Vatican, the expense was more than $144,796,978.14 while the landings in Davos and Miami cost $91,262,903.93.
“On the occasion of the official visit of the President of the Nation to the State of Israel, the Israeli government provided courtesy accommodation for the President and the official delegation, as well as the vehicle for the President,” he specified and added that on the occasion On that trip, which continued through Italy, the president was accompanied by 20 people: the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Diana Mondino; the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos; his Human Capital counterpart, Sandra Pettovello; the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei; the Secretary of Worship, Francisco Sánchez; Rabbi Shimon Wahnish; the then head of the Military House, Alejandro Guglielmi; two officials of the Military House, the head and deputy head of the presidential custody, two officials of the presidential custody; the presidential doctor, Manuel Estigarribia; presidential interpreter, Walter Kerr; the Undersecretary of Presidential Affairs, Darío Alberto Lucas; the General Director of Ceremonial, Andrés Marchetti; the Ceremonial official, Mariano Chini; and Santiago Luis Oria and Macarena Jimena Rodríguez, in charge of communication.
It was the president’s first official trip. He visited Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, where he demonstrated his political support for the country in the face of attacks by the Hamas group. He met with Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Then, in Rome, he was with his counterpart, the far-right Giorgia Meloni, at the Chigi Palace. He participated in the canonization of Blessed María Antonia Paz de Figueroa, “Mama Antula”, and was received by the Pope in a private audience where he left behind his fight with the Catholic Church after having said that Bergoglio was “the representative of the evil one in the earth”.
On the occasion of the trip to Washington, United States, in February of this year, where the president participated in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that had donald trump as one of the main speakers, Javier Milei He was accompanied by 12 people: his sister as Secretary General of the Presidency; the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich; the then second head of the Military House, Walter Rovira; an official of the Military House; the head of the presidential custody, two presidential custodians; the doctor Manuel Estigarribia; the translator Walter Kerr; the Undersecretary of Presidential Affairs, Darío Alberto Lucas; the General Director of Ceremonial, Andrés Marchetti; and Santiago Luis Oria, in charge of communication.
In January, however, 14 people went to Switzerland, where the Davos Economic Forum was held: Posse, Mondino, the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo; Karina Milei, the Secretary of International Economic Relations, Marcelo Cima; the then head of the Military House, Alejandro Guglielmi; the Undersecretary of Presidential Affairs, Darío Lucas; the head of the Presidential Custody; the deputy head of the Presidential Custody; the official interpreter; an official of the Military House; a doctor and Oria as person in charge of communication. Under these circumstances, the president gave a speech in which he pointed out “radical feminism” and the “bloody agenda of abortion,” among other criticisms of “socialism.”
Also to Miami, United States, 14 people traveled with the president: Karina Milei; the designated ambassador to Israel, Axel Wanish; the Undersecretary of Presidential Affairs, Darío Alberto Lucas; the head of Presidential Custody; three presidential custody; a ceremonial official; two from the Military House; the presidential doctor, Manuel Estigarribia; the interpreter and two communication managers.
On this occasion, the leader of La Libertad Avanza, in addition to posing for a photo with Elon Musk, was recognized along with his sister for “his tireless efforts for Israel and the global community” in an event that was organized by the Jewish community of Chabad Lubavitch, an Orthodox congregation whose New York headquarters Milei visited twice before the election. In addition, he met with the president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Ilan Goldfajn, and spoke about his vision of the world at the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy (FIU).
Beyond this, Posse clarified that to date there are “amounts in the process of analysis and processing of surrender and return due to the change in the agenda of the President of the Nation, which caused his early return to the country.”
