Javier Milei sworn in as president in ‘tipping point’ for Argentina

Radical libertarian likens his election to fall of Berlin Wall in inauguration speech with strong echoes of Trump's 2017 address

Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, has vowed to lead his country out of decades of decadence and decline" but said its punishing economic crisis would intensify over the coming months, as a who's who" of the global far right assembled in Buenos Aires to celebrate the radical libertarian's inauguration.

Addressing tens of thousands of supporters outside Argentina's turquoise-domed neoclassical congress, Milei - a mercurial former TV celebrity known as El Loco or the Madman - - compared his shock election with the start of the Soviet Union's collapse.