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Argentina’s Leftists Turn on Each Other over Embarrassing Loss to Libertarian Javier Milei

November 23, 2023 by Frances Martel Leave a Comment

Alberto Fernández, the socialist outgoing president of Argentina, lambasted his Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (no relation) on Wednesday for allegedly demanding “obedience” in his first interview since his Peronist coalition lost the presidential election to outsider libertarian Javier Milei on Sunday.

Fernández gave the interview to Uruguay’s El Observador and did not mention Milei at all during the nearly hour-long exchange with journalist Óscar González Oro, who described himself as a longtime friend of the president’s. The president repeatedly condemned his predecessor, center-right former President Mauricio Macri, and returned on multiple occasions to his poor relationship with Fernández de Kirchner, rebutting her public complaints that the president would not “listen” to her.

Tensions between Fernández and other junior members of the socialist Peronist coalition and the power brokers of “Kirchnerism,” as the vice president’s loyalists are called, were an “open secret” for much of Alberto Fernández’s presidency, Argentine media noted on Wednesday. Following the complete collapse of that socialist movement’s leadership, however, in the face of a landslide loss against Milei, those rifts are becoming more public.

Milei became president-elect of Argentina on Sunday with about 55 percent of the vote, a nearly 12-percent lead over the Peronist candidate, Sergio Massa – Fernández’s minister of economics. Argentina is currently facing the worst economic crisis of its modern history, defined by inflation fates of over 140 percent, double-digit poverty levels, and growing joblessness and social unrest. Milei has held only one public position in his lifetime, winning a seat in the Argentine Congress in 2021 shortly after he established his explicitly libertarian political party, Liberty Advances.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner served as president of Argentina between 2007 and 2015. The wife of late former President Néstor Kirchner, Fernández de Kirchner served as first lady for four years before becoming president herself. A hard leftist with close friendships with late dictator Hugo Chávez and corrupt current Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Fernández de Kirchner is widely considered the most powerful leftist in Argentina and the power broker responsible for bringing Fernández into the presidency.

In his interview on Wednesday, Fernández suggested that Fernández de Kirchner routinely disrespected his authority as president of Argentina.

“I’m amused because the Argentina media say that I was a puppet, and it turns out that the puppet is the only one who ended up confronting Cristina, is the only one,” Fernández told El Observador. “I was not a very good puppet and that was the problem. And the complaint of ‘they don’t listen to me’ … it’s not that I did not listen, I listened … what happened was that I didn’t always agree.”

González Oro asked Fernández directly about comments the vice president made distancing herself from the ongoing economic crisis, declaring, “I have nothing to do with that, they did not want to listen to me.”

“I think she confuses things,” Fernández replied. “Listen, she was listened to, she was read, she sent public letters, she made declarations. And I also listened to her in private.”

“What is the truth is that I did not obey her in everything that she would have wanted to be obeyed in,” he continued. “But it was not my mission to obey her and she knew that from day one. I was not there to obey her.”

Fernández also appeared to make multiple veiled slights against Fernández de Kirchner throughout the interview, noting repeatedly that he currently has no criminal charges for corruption to his name.

“You are talking to a president who has never been accused of corruption and is leaving the government with the same net worth that he came in with,” Fernández noted. “I have no accounts, nothing abroad … in our government we started the most public works projects, 7,000 public works projects … no accusations of corruption.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Fernández repeated, “I am not taking a single pencil from the government,” and claimed that he had not used any public funds for his wardrobe.

“This suit, I paid for this suit, nobody paid for it; this tie, I paid for it, the state did not pay for it,” he emphasized.

Fernández de Kirchner has a long history of accusations of corruption, including a criminal conviction in 2022 for giving a friend 51 public works contracts and defrauding Argentina for upwards of $1 billion. She was sentenced to six years in prison, but served none of them on the grounds of legal immunity granted to the vice president of the Republic.

As president, Fernández de Kirchner was notorious for spending lavishly on fashion statements, wearing “three to five outfits a day” and maintaining a wardrobe worth over a million pesos in 2008 – about $333,000 at the time, but $2,805.35 today.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin (center L) shakes hands with his Argentina's counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (center R) during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 23, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV        (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin (center L) shakes hands with his Argentina’s counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (center R) during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 23, 2015. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

The Argentine outlet Infobae noted on Monday that the Kirchners – now including son Máximo – had taken a backseat in Massa’s campaigning. It remained unclear to the public if Massa sought the distance or if the Kirchners had voluntarily chosen to keep away in light of their history of corruption and unpopularity. During the last presidential debate between Massa and Milei, Massa notably told his rival, “they had their chance, now it’s you or me.”

Aside from his concession speech and a cryptic poem published on social media on Tuesday, Massa has not made any public statements in the aftermath of his historic defeat.

Follow Frances Martel on Facebook and Twitter.

Filed Under: Alberto Fernandez, Argentina, Breitbart, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Javier Milei, Latin America, National Security, News, Politics, Socialism

Tucker Carlson asks Argentina’s new president what advice he’d give to Trump, and his answer is applause-worthy

November 22, 2023 by BlazeTV Staff Leave a Comment

Javier Milei, Argentina’s newly elected president, is making headlines everywhere. He’s anti-establishment, he’s anti-woke, and he’s absolutely fearless when it comes to speaking his mind.

Dave Rubin explains how Milei is a breath of fresh air, considering Argentina has seen “massive government growth, complete devaluation of their currency … creeping socialism for a long time, [and] craziness with gender stuff and all of the woke stuff.”

Luckily, Milei “has come in to absolutely obliterate it.”

In a recent interview, Tucker Carlson asked the Argentine if he had advice for Donald Trump, who many hope will do the same thing for the United States.

“Donald Trump is running for president again in the United States, as you know,” said Tucker. “What advice would you give him?”

“He should continue his fight against socialism because he is one of the few who truly understood that we are fighting socialism, that we are fighting the statists. He understood perfectly that the generation of wealth comes from the private sector. The state does not create wealth; the state destroys it. The state can give you nothing because it produces nothing, and when it attempts it, it does so poorly,” Milei answered.

“So I’d say, if I could humbly offer advice, all I could say would be to double down on his efforts in the same direction: defending the ideals of freedom and refusing to give an inch to the socialists.”

*Insert applause*

“Argentina, after 20 years of this nonsense, is pushing back,” says Dave. “Donald Trump was pushing back; there are pockets — places like Florida — that are pushing back. You should be pushing back, and might I suggest that we all go a bit more on offense?”



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