Javier Milei, an eccentric Trump-admiring libertarian economist, was elected President of Argentina on Saturday. Summary Javier Milei, an eccentric Trump-admiring libertarian economist, was elected President of Argentina on Saturday. Milei defeated left-winger Sergio Massa by an 11-point margin and has pledged to take a “chainsaw” to the socialist policies that have ruined Argentina’s economy. “The model of decadence has come to an end, there’s no going back,” Milei said in his victory speech. “We have monumental problems ahead: inflation, lack …
