Health & Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes second US Cabinet official to visit Argentina in recent weeks.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, signalling renewed Trump administration support for Argentina with the second trip by a US cabinet secretary in recent weeks. The US Health & Human Services chief’s visit follows one by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Argentina’s capital days after Milei’s government secured a US$20-billion funding agreement with the International Monetary Fund, where the US is the biggest shareholder. Milei, who has cultivated an ideological bond with President Donald Trump, has joined the United States in withdrawing Argentina from the World Health Organization. He also slashed spending on birth control and abortion services and tightened Argentina’s comparably open immigration laws, vowing to deport any foreigner with a criminal record.
SOURCE: BUENOS AIRES TIMES