After attending US President Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in Washington and participating once again at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Javier Milei is recharged and ready to go. He will go even further: Argentina’s President wants to create an international forum grouping countries along the same ideological lines. And he intends to continue executing his “chainsaw” plan with two axes: tackling decentralised state bodies and the life insurance policies outlined in collective-bargaining labour agreements.
The composition of the world map leads him to think that in the short term it is possible to design a political and cultural forum grouping several countries in ideological sync, with the United States and Israel in the foreground, in addition to Italy and El Salvador. The fight is against the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda, one of the economist’s obsessions, and he feels they can offer an “alternative” agenda.
This move does not mean that Argentina will renounce the United Nations entirely, although it will try to distance itself from multilateral organisations, such as the World Health Organisation, the Paris Climate Agreement and even the Mercosur trade bloc. Exits that will not be easy in the face of the accumulation of treaties and budgetary commitments that have already been signed.
January 28, 2025
SOURCE: BUENOS AIRES TIMES
Milei wants right-wing forum as restarts ‘chainsaw’