Argentina: sanity and madness

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 17/07/2025

President Javier Milei has laid off 50,000 public employees, most of whom are parasitic bureaucracies, while also demonstrating excellent management indicators in his first year and seven months in office, during which he reduced poverty from 53% to 34.7%; monthly inflation fell from 25.5% to 1.5%, a figure that contrasts with the 12.8% rate under the Peronist regime.

GDP grew 5.8% in the first quarter of 2025; foreign investment returned, while the International Monetary Fund granted a $20 billion loan in recognition of good government practices.

In this context, Argentine journalist Gustavo González published an article in the newspaper "Perfil" entitled "Milei Pathology" recalling the president's crackling statements in two speeches, where he launched the following insults: "five mental parasites, four idiots, plus one idiocy, three thieves, three brutes, two baboons, two liars, two imbeciles, two asses, two rats, two stupidities, two eunuchs, two filthy, two filthy, two depraved; and an orc, idiot, a fraud, a genocidal, unpresentable, shameless, bastards, berretas, infected, shitters, garbage, nefarious and donkeys without attributes."

Milei has also called her opponents "corrupt," "miserable," "resentful," "satraps," "henchmen," and "phonies." For its part, the communications department at Austral University recorded more than 1,000 insults to politicians, communicators, and economists during her 14-month administration, and the newspaper "La Nación" recorded 4,000 derogatory remarks in 130 interviews.

Gustavo González, author of two books about the extravagant head of state - "The Madman" and "Forces of Heaven" - recalls that he stated "that at the age of 11 he had a mystical episode when his father was beating him and a ray of light fell on his sister, a very strong image [that] adds to his worrying tendency to associate his critics with animals, such as rats, cockroaches and baboons."

The writer attributes this discursive brutality to the fact that "he believes he has received directly from God the mission to save the planet from the "evil one", with the help of his sister Karina, who would be - he claims - "the reincarnation of Moses" and his dog Conan, who acts as "celestial intermediary with the "One".

He calls Karina "The Boss" and maintains that "there is no human being in the universe like Karina. She is everything. Without her, nothing would have been possible. Some idiots say "I voted for Javier, not Karina"; they don't understand how this works. Without Karina, neither Libertad Avanza - her political party - nor the provincial council, nor anything would exist."

Milei also describes his administration as "the best in history" and says that his cabinet is made up of "giants and colossi who have demonstrated to the world the great transformation we carried out in a patriotic feat," adding, somewhat immodestly, in the style of Donald Trump, that "we are the first government that has kept all its promises, capable of teaching a lesson in macroeconomics at a global level, that has made the largest adjustment in the history of humanity and the largest structural reforms in history."

No one can predict how this story, which combines sanity and madness, which fuses both sides, will end. Every day brings new and disturbing events, including ferocious attacks against his vice president, Victoria Villarruel, whom he systematically mistreats and supports offensive messages, such as that tweet calling her a "demagogic traitor and economic brute."

Libertarian Argentina, however, is moving forward despite the aforementioned contradictions, upholding the banner of a market economy; it is fighting corruption and maintaining a firm opposition to the satrapies of Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba.

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