Trump’s bailout threat may have been key to Milei’s electoral triumph in Argentina
by Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#711RP)
Voters appear to have responded to idea that US president's generosity' would evaporate if Milei failed to win
The dollar always talks in the end," Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal.
Javier Milei's surprise triumph in Argentina's midterm elections - after Trump bailed him out with 40bn of them - suggests there may be some truth to that assertion.
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