Javier Miley This Saturday afternoon he took advantage of the stage of the Madrid Economic Forum, before some 7,000 sympathizers of the Spanish extreme right who venerate him as the opposite side of Pedro Sánchez, to attack businessmen again Paolo Rocca y Javier Madanes Quintanilla. The President described them as “prebendaries”, “extortioners” y “corrupt” when it was his turn to speak about the opening of the Argentine economy.
After an hour of reading about economic theories, Milei had a woman from the audience come on stage to determine what she was going to talk about in terms of applied economics. He laughed when the inflatable dice indicated the option of “the opening of markets”. Immediately, the libertarian presented the cases of the businessmen he faced in recent days.
Just as he did during his time at Argentina Week In New York, Milei charged in harsh terms against the owners of Techint and Aluar, Paolo Rocca and Javier Madanes Quintanilla, whom he once again called “corrupt businessmen” and accused them of wanting to extort the Government, despite the request that they had made days ago from the Association Argentine Businesswoman (AEA) and the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) about engaging in constructive and respectful dialogue, and creating the conditions to be able to invest.
“What is being defended in Argentina is the possibility that corrupt businessmen have to continue hunting in the zoo. Argentina is the most closed country in the world. All those complaints of indiscriminate openness are lies that they want to install,” he remarked.
The President did not miss the opportunity to remember his affront with Rocca, who is accused of operating with surcharges, after the controversy unleashed in a tender for tubes for the export gas pipeline that will go from Vaca Muerta to the coast of Río Negro, which the Techint company finally lost to the Indian company Welspun.
“While the Kirchners insulted him later they ended up paying US$4,000 per ton of steel pipes while today they cost US$1,200”denounced the president who usually blames the businessman for having presented himself in the tender for the Vaca Muerta work with a price margin of 40% higher.
Milei structured his speech with an ode to capitalist system, which he defined as “the only one who brings prosperity to the Earth.” In addition, he took aim at President Sánchez, whom he came to call “unpresentable,” and once again winked at Donald Trump’s administration.
“If they had a Central Bank of Spain, with the unpresentable person they have in charge of power, they would have a worse disaster than the one they have. They are all branches of the same filthy garbage, which is 21st century socialism. Fortunately, for Donald Trump it is falling apart. “It is not far away to dream of a free Cuba,” Milei sentenced.
At the rhythm of Panic Show, the song from La Renga with which the President usually makes his entrance on stage, Milei was received by about 7,000 people who gathered at the Vistalegre Palace, in Madrid, to listen to him. He accompanied his entrance, under the shout of “Long live freedom, damn it!”, a phrase that has become a registered trademark of the Government, while part of the public insulted President Sánchez.
“It seems to me that between the bribes and the saunas, they don’t love him very much,” Milei ironically as soon as he got on stage, in a clear chicanery intended for the Spanish president, with whom he does not hide his political differences.
Milei’s reference is not coincidental. In the middle of last year, Sánchez was linked to a sexual exploitation scandal after the Spanish opposition accused his father-in-law, Saturnino Gómez, of having managed saunas where prostitution was practiced.
Throughout his speech, Milei reviled socialism, which he accused of violating the “right to life, liberty, and property” and at the local level, he related it to Kirchnerism. “It is filthy garbage that plunges us into misery”he attacked. “Charity is not done at gunpoint. It is incredible how charitable you can be when the pocket that suffers is someone else’s pocket,” he later questioned.
And in a dart directed at a part of the opposition: “I leave you with a recommendation that we tell the Argentine branch of socialism, which is Kirchnerism, which are the kukas: Don’t let yourselves be psychopathized by lefties! Never leave your pockets near a socialist.”
The event began in the morning with a presentation on “Libertarian Constitution” and then there will be a debate on “Milei’s Argentina” which will be attended by economist Juan Ramón Rallo, friend of the President.
Milei arrived in Spain this Friday after several trips abroad in recent days between the United States and Chile. With a limited entourage after the controversy over Manuel Adorni’s wife’s trip to New York, The President has not left the hotel since he landed in the Spanish capital. He put on the YPF jumpsuit and received Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, the far-right party, who interrupted his electoral campaign in Castilla y León to meet with his friend for an hour.
Afterwards, the economist Jesús Huerta de Soto, a reference of the Austrian School, who is considered a master by Milei, arrived at the hotel. The talk about anarcho-capitalism lasted almost three hours, LA NACION was able to rebuild. And then Argentine businessman Martín Varsavsky, resident in the Spanish capital and a fervent pro-government official on social networks, arrived at the Hyatt Regency Hesperia hotel.
Spain became the favorite platform for Milei, who visited the country for the fifth time since he took office. The libertarian, estranged from Pedro Sánchez, once again prevented it from being a state visit; There were no contacts with the local government or Spanish royalty. Nor was he close to the Spanish establishment, because the audience of the Madrid Economic Forum are entrepreneurs, traders and cryptocurrency experts.
After his intervention at the event, The President returns to the country aboard the Tango 01 and plans to arrive early Sunday in Buenos Aires.
