Argentina’s far-right Milei angers Falklands veterans with Thatcher praise

Presidential candidate calls former UK prime minister one of the great leaders in the history of humanity' during debate

Argentina's libertarian presidential candidate Javier Milei has been pilloried by veterans of the Falklands war after he praised Margaret Thatcher as one of the great leaders in the history of humanity" during the final electoral debate before next Sunday's election.

Milei - a self-described anarcho-capitalist - has frequently expressed admiration for Thatcher's free-market policies. But she is still reviled in Argentina for ordering the sinking of the General Belgrano cruiser, killing 323 people on board, during the 1982 war with the UK over the Falkland islands, which Argentina claims as Islas Malvinas.