Argentina’s new leader is a snake-oil salesman. I fear for my country.

[MilHojas]

Argentina’s new leader is a snake-oil salesman with extreme views on abortion, gay rights and more. I fear for my country | Uki Goñi

After his landslide victory in the presidential election, Javier Milei is threatening to undo 40 years of democracy in Argentina, says writer Uki Goñi

www.theguardian.com

 

[perry]

I can understand his concern as a a argentinian citizen . To change Argentina radical policies will have to omplemented and this will be very hard to achieve .

 

[Macanudo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1726941525635158079

 

[perry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1726941525635158079

To celebtate Mileis presidency one day of stock market performance is hardly a litmus test . Lest see in one year how his presidency has gone and then we can clearly express our opinion .

 

[sebas]

Argentina’s new leader is a snake-oil salesman with extreme views on abortion, gay rights and more. I fear for my country | Uki Goñi

After his landslide victory in the presidential election, Javier Milei is threatening to undo 40 years of democracy in Argentina, says writer Uki Goñi

www.theguardian.com

Looking through the last 2 years of articles that Uki Goñi has written for The Guardian, this fear for his country seems to be relatively new sentiment. Not a peep about the mismanagement of previous Peronist administrations that have led to crippling inflation and for poverty to rise above 40%.

Was he fearing for his country when CFK and Fernando were running the show, or did the inflation and economic mismanagement that caused 55% of the electorate to vote for an extreme libertarian candidate out of desperation some how miss him whilst being the foreign correspondent for Argentina working for Guardian and being paid in foreign currency?

Fair enough I get it, he's left wing and the Guardian are left wing and they obviously would rather other people suffer than condone a Libertarian president who might try and change direction.

But do they have to misreport and mischaracterize so much?

This is taken from Wikipedia page on Milei, which fortunately cites articles and interviews backing up the points they write down...

He questions the governments and policies applied by the Radical Civic Union, the Justicialist Party, and military coups in Argentina. While Milei publicly expressed that he is not a defender of the last Argentine military dictatorship (the National Reorganization Process) and the Dirty War, he has questioned the Dirty War's 30,000 disappeared toll.[3] In September 2022, he again questioned the toll.[223] He asked: "Where are they? Show me the list."[73] He described the military dictatorship of Jorge Videla as the leader of "one of the darkest periods of Argentine history" but that "it was also something that was quite complicated".[224] His view is that the guerrilla terrorists of the 1970s should be condemned like the Argentine military dictatorship, seeing that period as a war between the state and terrorism.[225]

 

[Quilombo]

As someone on the far left I've always found it hard to take Ks/Peronists seriously, and apparently for the first time in 4 years K5N started showing the price of the dollar blue, and talking about how expensive things are.

While I reject the idea that The Guardian and this writer are "left wing" it's been incredible watching Ks suddenly care about the plight of workers and the poor. Things have been going tits up for awhile, yet they're only pretending to care now that they lost.

I do think Milie's presidency will be a net negative for workers, but it's so gross seeing the Ks who have spent the past 4 years saying "ah pero Macri..." now start to talk about inflation and poverty rates when they managed to triple the former compared to Macri, who was supposed to be the second coming of Pinochet.

 

[Rich One]

As someone on the far left I've always found it hard to take Ks/Peronists seriously, and apparently for the first time in 4 years K5N started showing the price of the dollar blue, and talking about how expensive things are.

While I reject the idea that The Guardian and this writer are "left wing" it's been incredible watching Ks suddenly care about the plight of workers and the poor. Things have been going tits up for awhile, yet they're only pretending to care now that they lost.

I do think Milie's presidency will be a net negative for workers, but it's so gross seeing the Ks who have spent the past 4 years saying "ah pero Macri..." now start to talk about inflation and poverty rates when they managed to triple the former compared to Macri, who was supposed to be the second coming of Pinochet.

Get a kick watching K5N as you said now mentioning the dollar, inflation and poverty. In the K5N program Argenzuela someone said " Ah pero Massa" he was silenced , they said Massa doesn't exist , just look forward..!

 

[Rich One]

Get a kick watching K5N as you said now mentioning the dollar, inflation and poverty. In the K5N program Argenzuela someone said " Ah pero Massa" he was silenced , they said Massa doesn't exist , just look forward..!

Now ,C5N announced the Dollar Official at $365 now ,for year end may be over $800 to spread panic.. Merchants should adjust accordingly..!

 

[elhombresinnombre]

As someone on the far left I've always found it hard to take Ks/Peronists seriously, and apparently for the first time in 4 years K5N started showing the price of the dollar blue, and talking about how expensive things are.

While I reject the idea that The Guardian and this writer are "left wing" it's been incredible watching Ks suddenly care about the plight of workers and the poor. Things have been going tits up for awhile, yet they're only pretending to care now that they lost.

I do think Milie's presidency will be a net negative for workers, but it's so gross seeing the Ks who have spent the past 4 years saying "ah pero Macri..." now start to talk about inflation and poverty rates when they managed to triple the former compared to Macri, who was supposed to be the second coming of Pinochet.

Two things really. I agree with you that the Guardian isn't really left wing. Left of centre-left, I'd say. There are left wing newspapers in the UK but their readership is miniscule and the Guardian has a huge worldwide readership because it's in centre, albeit left of centre.

The other thing is Uki Goñi's politics can't, in my opinion, be equated to simple left or right in the northern hemisphere sense. I would say he is a Peronist - not that that makes things much clearer since Peronists of the left and the right have been butchering each other for generations because the other is the wrong kind of Peronist. In my opinion the Guardian use Uki Goñi because he has always delivered good copy, on time and has a perspective that a parachuted-in "Latin American correspondent" could never pick up in a few days or weeks. Remember too that the Guardian also employs the ex-editor of The Times, Simon Jenkins. I doubt if they agree with all that much Jenkins writes either but they put his columns and those of other not-terribly-lefty writers out there so readers can make up their own minds.

 

[jlynch]

Looking through the last 2 years of articles that Uki Goñi has written for The Guardian, this fear for his country seems to be relatively new sentiment. Not a peep about the mismanagement of previous Peronist administrations that have led to crippling inflation and for poverty to rise above 40%.

Was he fearing for his country when CFK and Fernando were running the show, or did the inflation and economic mismanagement that caused 55% of the electorate to vote for an extreme libertarian candidate out of desperation some how miss him whilst being the foreign correspondent for Argentina working for Guardian and being paid in foreign currency?

Fair enough I get it, he's left wing and the Guardian are left wing and they obviously would rather other people suffer than condone a Libertarian president who might try and change direction.

But do they have to misreport and mischaracterize so much?

This is taken from Wikipedia page on Milei, which fortunately cites articles and interviews backing up the points they write down...

he seems to primarily covers Javier Milei (as can be seen in the history of https://twitter.com/ukigoni ) and most of his recent contributions to articles on the Guardian are also on Javier Milei (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ukigoni) . He has no coverage of the current government or of other candidates during the course of the election. I was surprised to see such unbalanced pieces in the Guardian.

Also one of his Guardian articles was used by pagina12 https://www.pagina12.com.ar/614551-javier-milei-suma-otro-cien-enemigos-prestigios-economistas- as a source of truth and to authenticate the open letter "signed" by 100 economists that I could only find in a shared google drive of an infobae journalist https://drive.google.com/file/d/13vPMBHEzQEz3SPYdEe5M1moOqQXqHpoH/preview and it had no headed paper or indication it was from any authority or organisation .