"This was in part due to the potential $40bn bailout promised to cash-strapped Buenos Aires by Washington. Ahead of the vote, United States President Donald Trump had made clear the cash injection was contingent upon the election results. And Trump's far-right buddy Javier Milei, the equally uniquely coiffed president of Argentina, did not fail to deliver. Milei's party, La Libertad Avanza, pulled off a rather startling win, scoring more than 40 percent of the votes cast, according to early results."
"Trump naturally wasted no time in appropriating the electoral feat as a personal victory, claiming that Milei had a lot of help from us. He had a lot of help. Before the election, Trump explained that his generous gesture to Milei made even as the US president was overseeing sweeping cuts to healthcare and other services at home was his own way of helping a great philosophy take over a great country."
"Of course, there were the good old days of the US-backed Dirty War when a right-wing military dictatorship murdered and disappeared tens of thousands of suspected leftists, many of them dropped from aircraft into the ocean or Rio de la Plata. As historian Greg Grandin documented in his biography of eternal US diplomat Henry Kissinger, the statesman advised the junta's foreign minister, Admiral Cesar Augusto Guzzetti, in 1976: If there are"
Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza won over 40% of votes in Argentina's midterm elections, securing major gains in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The US indicated a potential $40bn bailout to Buenos Aires, with President Donald Trump conditioning the cash injection on election outcomes and publicly celebrating Milei's victory. US officials framed financial support as ideological backing for free-market, MAGA-style reforms despite domestic budget cuts. The election revives debate over Argentina's past, including the US-backed Dirty War and historical US diplomatic involvement, citing Kissinger's advice to the 1976 junta.
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