La Libertad Avanza (Argentina)

$20 billion in exchange for re-electing the chainsaw-wielding psychopath: Javier Milei can still count on Donald Trump to hold the Argentine population hostage. Emboldened by this support and flattered to be able to follow in his protector's footsteps, this libertarian destroyer of public services doesn't hesitate to use the same "enemy within" rhetoric.

Fantasizing about hordes of criminal and colonizing migrants and perverted sexual minorities, describing abortion as bloody homicide and denying global warming, Javier Milei thus brings a few notes of acidity to the already very indigestible cocktail made of nationalism, ultra-liberalism and conservatism.

Another facet: this economist by training also knows how to manipulate figures and indicators. When he liminates food aid, facilitates layoffs, reduces severance pay, extends the workday to 12 hours, restricts the right to strike, or dismantles ministries to rebrand them as Human Capital, he also knows that the poverty rate he presents to the world does not reflect the actual standard of living.