Tag: Javier Milei

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:44 UTC

  Milei launches presidential bid in fiasco event attended by only a few

  

  Argentine Congressman Javier Milei, who had been slated as a strong presidential contender in next year's elections, Friday staged a major fiasco when in a football stadium with a capacity of 14,000 people, only some 1,500 gathered to see him launch his Casa Rosada bid.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentina: Milei's negative image surges after human organ market remarks

  

  The rising aura of Argentina's peculiar Libertarian Congressman Javier Milei took a turn downwards following his statements about opening up the sale of human organs because it was “a market just like any other,” a nationwide survey by the consulting firm Zuban Córdoba y Asociados has shown.

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Argentine Congressman Javier Milei favors trade of human organs

  

  Argentine Libertarian Congressman Javier Milei said he was in favor of the sale of human organs or transplants because “it is just another market.” After stirring controversies among authorities coordinating these operations, Milei insisted that under a free market, transplants “would work much, much better”.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Former Paraguay keeper gets prison sentence for defamation

  

  Former Paraguay national team goalkeeper and captain José Luis Félix Chilavert has been handed down a one-year suspended prison sentence for acts of defamation against South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) President Alejandro Domínguez, it was announced Wednesday by an Asunción court.

• Thursday, May 19th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Gómez Alcorta talks back at Milei's promise to shut down Women's Ministry

  

  Argentina's Minister of Women Genders and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, Wednesday replied to Congressman Javier Milei's promise that if he is elected president he would shut down such an office because he would not apologize for having a penis.

• Thursday, May 19th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Argentina: Survey shows only Milei improving

  

  A new survey released earlier this week has shown only Liberal Congressman Javier Milei is improving ahead of next year's presidential elections with the current Frente de Todos (FdT) government having a 20% rate of approval.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Milei: “I will not apologize for having a penis”

  

  Argentine Congressman Javier Milei Saturday announced that if he is elected President next year one of his first measures would be to suppress the Ministry of Women (officially known as “Ministry of Women, Gender, and Diversity”).

• Wednesday, May 4th 2022 - 22:09 UTC

  Son of Bolsonaro insists Milei can become Argentina's next president

  

  Brazilian Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of President Jair Bolsonaro, held a telephone conversation with his Argentine colleague Javier Milei, whom he reportedly told that “I believe you can be president.”

• Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 10:58 UTC

  Argentina: Milei would never run alongside lukewarm doves who rejected him

  

  Argentine Libertarian Deputy Javier Milei replied that Kirchnerism is back “because of the failure of the model of the lukewarm doves” of Juntos por el Cambio.

• Monday, April 25th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  Milei gets 12,000 people to attend class on inflation in Mendoza

  

  Argentine Libertarian Deputy Javier Milei Sunday insisted on dollarizing the country's economy during a rally in Mendoza where he also vowed that such would be his first step if elected President in 2023.