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Corruption Scandals Are Plaguing Argentina’s Milei

The libertarian president is stretching the boundaries of what voters will take.
President Javier Milei in Cordoba, Argentina, in May 2024.Photographer: Diego Lima/AFP/Getty Images

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As Latin America shifts to the right, the movement’s intellectual lodestar is looking wobbly.