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Nov 20, 2023, 9 tweets

Far-right extremist Javier Milei won Argentina's presidential election.

Milei wants to:
-legalize the sale of children and human organs
-abolish public healthcare, education, and transportation
-abandon monetary sovereignty and adopt the US dollar

He says his dead dog Conan speaks to him from the afterlife and advises him on economic policy.

Argentina was invited to join BRICS, but far-right president-elect Javier Milei has pledged to withdraw.

The extremist boasted: "Our geopolitical alignment is with the U.S. and Israel. We are not going to align with communists" perfil.com/noticias/polit…

Argentina's extreme-right president-elect Javier Milei pledged to cut ties with China and Brazil (Argentina's two biggest trading partners, with 35% of trade)

Instead Milei wants Argentina to be totally subordinated to the USA, which he basically worships
ambito.com/economia/milei…

In his platform, Argentina's extremist "libertarian" fascist president-elect Javier Milei calls for a Pinochet-style regime:
-"militarization of the institutions during the transition"
-building for-profit "public-private" prisons
-making it easier to imprison people
-mandating forced labor for prisoners
-reducing the age of being considered a minor
-creating a nationwide surveillance network of cameras with facial recognition technology

Despite his absurd "libertarian" rhetoric, Argentina's extreme-right president-elect Javier Milei has constantly whitewashed the fascist (US-backed) military dictatorship that ruled his country, denying its mass murder, torture and disappearing of leftists
europapress.es/internacional/…

In addition to promising to totally subordinate Argentina to the US and adopt the US dollar as its national currency, extreme-right president-elect Javier Milei loves Israel.

Milei recently waved an Israeli flag at a rally.

He sees Israel's far-right apartheid regime as a model

Responding to far-right president-elect Javier Milei's plan to adopt the US dollar as Argentina's currency to fight inflation, renowned development economist Ha-Joon Chang said this is “insane”, warning dollarization would make Argentina a US “colony”
geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/25/arg…

Here is a video clip in which Argentina's extreme-right president-elect Javier Milei proposed creating "a free market of adoptions".

That's his euphemistic way of calling to make it legal to sell human children on the "free market".

Many Argentine news outlets reported on far-right president-elect Javier Milei proposing a "free market of babies".

He wants to illegalize abortion, and says selling kids is a solution.

Milei is a follower of extreme-right "anarcho-capitalist" Murray Rothbard, who proposed this


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