US EditionUS Bailout Helped Milei, but Argentines Wary of ‘Economic Monroe Doctrine’
The U.S. Treasury’s $40 billion bailout was linked to Milei’s election, reflecting strategic efforts to influence Argentina’s economic sovereignty and political direction.
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US Debt Trap: How Libertarian Javier Milei Is Selling Argentina to Wall Street – for $82 Billion
The Trump admin is propping up Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei with $82 billion in US dollar-denominated debt that can’t be paid, ensuring the IMF and Wall Street will control the country’s economic policies.
In Argentina, America Secures a Libertarian Client State
Foreign Affairs In Argentina, America Secures a Libertarian Client State History shows why a declining great power would eschew the free market at home yet promote it abroad. Despite shaky polling data and high-profile scandals, President Javier Milei’s La Libertad Avanza Party won a decisive victory in the Argentinian elections earlier this week. Decades of Peronist failures to deliver on economic issues are not so easily forgotten by an elect…
US bailout helped Milei, but Argentines wary of ‘economic Monroe Doctrine’
The Trump administration’s pursuit of “a new economic Monroe Doctrine,” in which the United States extends a hand to the president’s ideological soulmates, as was the case in Argentina, is stirring historical suspicions of U.S. motives.
At the beginning of October, the United States bought Argentine pesos and finalized a currency exchange framework for US$20 billion with the central bank of Argentina
US debt trap: How libertarian Javier Milei is selling Argentina to Wall Street – for $82 billion
The United States is propping up Argentina’s failing libertarian President Javier Milei and his ultra-neoliberal “anarcho-capitalist” experiment with $82 billion in debt. In fact, Trump basically bought Milei a victory in the October 2025 legislative midterm elections with this money. It was a successful US form of election meddling. People in Argentina now say openly that Milei is turning their country into a “colony of the US”. The US empire h…
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